MBS PRODUCTIONS

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The Game of Love and Chance
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"BEST BET:

While most area theaters have given up on great names from world literature, the off-beat MBS Productions keeps doing its bit. Most of the company's shows are original scripts with sexy, often gay, themes. But occasional MBS does an original take on a Greek or even Roman tragedy. This time, though, the great writer it's tackling is pretty sexy himself, for a 300-year-old Frenchman. Pierre de Marivaux wrote comedies about mismatched love, mistaken identities and broken hearts."

- Lawson Taitte, Dallas Morning News.

Photograph by Lee Littlefield

The Game of Love and Chance
by Pierre Mariveaux
February 2 - 18, 2012

Sylvia is a single young woman still living at home. Her father thinks it’s time she considers finding a suitable man to marry. He talks her into meeting Dorante, a possible suitor. Despondent that her father is trying to impose his taste of men on her she switches places with the house maid Lisette in order to more objectively assess Dorante’s character. Unbeknownst to her, Dorante has also traded places with his butler so as to get a better assessment of Sylvia. What follows is a comedy of mixed up identities and employees taking advantage of their employers. This World Premiere Translation and Adaptation of this French comedy will delight audiences with its clever and unexpected twists.