False Servant Playtext

by Pierre Marivaux and translated by Martin Crimp

Are you really surprised to discover that a woman might have a mind of her own?

When Lélio thinks he can ditch and cash in on the rich woman he has promised to marry, in order to become the husband of an even wealthier ‘girl from Paris’, he enlists the help of his attractive new friend, the Chevalier.

What he doesn’t know is that the Chevalier is none other than this same ‘girl from Paris’ disguised as a man, and that her project is to publicly expose the depths of his sexual cynicism.