Word: marivaux
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...troupe's opening bill was a pleasing double one: Marivaux's Les Fausses Confidences (The False Secrets) rattled off in French; and a pantomime, Baptiste, requiring no French at all. A mannered 18th-century mixup, Les Fausses Confidences was all ambitious mothers and wily servants, dissembling lovers and trumped-up letters. But in an elegantly stylized production, the play seemed almost to be danced. Done so lightly, even its witless deceptions had an air of wit. Madeleine Renaud made an exquisite widow; Barrault, playing an agile valet, had about him a touch of quicksilver, of Mercury himself...