The Abbey Theatre is delighted to kick off 2009 with a production of the stylish comedy LA DISPUTE by French playwright, Pierre Marivaux. He is considered one of the most significant playwrights from the reign of King Louis XV. His most famous comedies, including "The Game Of Love And Chance" and "False Confessions", mirrored the celebrity, gossip-fuelled concerns of his age and, as in LA DISPUTE, almost all his plays pit the forces of love against the power of reason in the never-to-be-resolved 'battle of the sexes'. In this darkly funny and flirty play, love, lust and a whole lot of lies are examined in an 'experiment' carried out by a couple of aristocrats. Four orphans who've been raised in isolation are released into a man-made 'Garden of Eden' so that the gentry can resolve an age old question - in matters of the heart, is it men or women who prove less faithful? Continuing the Christmas fun into the New Year, LA DISPUTE opens at the Peacock on Wednesday 14 January and is the Abbey debut from exciting, young Irish director Wayne Jordan.
