Performance

Venue	Theatre Royal
	Also: Ustinov Studio,The Egg
Town	Bath
County	Bath & North East Somerset
From	9th November 2011
To	22nd December 2011
When	In rep with The Phoenix of Madrid and Iphigenia
Prices	From £19.50. To £19.50.
Theatre Royal (V854)
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The Surprise of Love

Work:: The Surprise of Love (S1577296619)

The beautiful Marquise has been left a widow tragically young... The handsome chevalier has been deserted by the love of his life who has decided to take holy orders... Both have sworn never to lose their hearts again... Neither had reckoned with the surprise of love.

Author

Pierre de Marivaux

Production:: (T784516432)

UK Premiere. Marivaux was the most important French playwright of the 18th Century. Considered by his contemporaries as 'the doctor of the human heart', he wrote many comedies for the Comedie-Francaise and the Comedie-Italienne in Paris. This will be the first time Marivaux's The Surprise of Love will have been seen by a British audience.

Producer	Ustinov Studio Company
Director	Laurence Boswell
Design	Ti Green
Lighting	Ben Ormerod
Lighting	Richard Howell
Sound	Fergus O'Hare
Performer	Peter Bramhill
Performer	Adam Jackson-Smith
Performer	Frances McNamee
Performer	Laura Rees
Performer	Milo Twomey
Performer	Samantha Robinson

Listing:: L86465234

Ustinov Studio

Production details

UK Premiere. Marivaux was the most important French playwright of the 18th Century. Considered by his contemporaries as 'the doctor of the human heart', he wrote many comedies for the Comedie-Francaise and the Comedie-Italienne in Paris. This will be the first time Marivaux's The Surprise of Love will have been seen by a British audience. Ustinov Studio

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