What will become of us? Four people; the sole survivors of a shipwreck; crawl out of the sea. Two of them are masters; and two of them are servants; and all four are about to discover what life feels like when the boot is on the other foot. Marivauxs potent mix of laughter; emotion and theatrical game-playing makes him one of the most surprising and most modern of all classic playwrights. Neil Bartlett has adapted this brilliant comedy of role-swapping and redemption; which premiered at the Lyric Hammersmith in April 2002.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. At LastBy Paul A. TothUpdate. At first; I thought I shared the authors premise; but I was only sharing my own premise with myself. Nevertheless; the author still takes on a question few have bothered asking. I only have two points of difference. One; benzodiazepine; far more than Propanol; has been the drug of choice for anxiety; now and since pst-WWII. Second; I think agoraphobia at least today is a little more evenly distributed in terms of gender. But thats merely the anecdotal evidence of my experience.Were surrounded by a horrible emptiness thats stuffed with commodities. Visualize it as a city in which the space is both empty and dense; lonely yet heavily populated. A city in which nothingness always threatens to annihilate our security but is held at bay by the constant supply of distractions ala Guy Debords spectacles. Our own spaces often become crammed as we try to fill the emptiness thats whistles in the wind like a winter that never ends. While not clinically agoraphobic; Ive come close enough and have often thought; "Why go out? I dont need to buy anything." What kind of "out" is that? And is it worse or better that I can add; "I can buy it on the Internet; anyway." For if one goes out to these spaces; one often slams into the most unbridled lack of etiquette or even humanity. Road rage. Screaming at minimum wage clerks as if they owned the retail chain. All quite unbelievable...Unlike the author; I do believe urban space is not only a trigger but an aspect of agoraphobia. On the other hand; every anxiety disorder is probably based upon flight and fear responses untethered to any reality.