La Colonie, followed by L'Ile des esclaves - Classiques et Contemporains, Pierre Marivaux, Jocelyne Hubert

What if the tables were turned? The men of La Colonie, like the masters of L'Île des esclaves, undergo the ordeal of a change in status and discover, by losing power – momentarily – the injustice of a social order based on the randomness of "birth."

Neither political treatises nor philosophical discourses, Marivaux's Islands are, first and foremost, light comedies, using all the resources of dramatic language with an art of repartee and tempo: the art of "marivaudage" in all its richness.