French Plays - Marivaux

L'Ile des Esclaves + La Colonie = Slaves Island + The Colony

Take in a pair of one-act comedies by famed French playwright Pierre de
Marivaux.

La Colonie is a baroque satire set on an island where women have
seized power from men. The play foreshadowed the feminist movements that agitated
Europe two centuries later, despite its politically and sexually conservative
ending.

L’Île des esclaves is a delightful and disturbing mix of comedy and
cruelty following the fates of four shipwreck survivors — two masters, two
servants — who wash up on a strange island where their societal roles are
reversed and they discover what it’s like when the boot is on the other foot.

Both plays are performed in French without subtitles. Comedy.