'The Triumph of Love' Swoons into SJ Rep 9/22 - 10/21

Enjoy the splendor of France during the lavish reign of Louis XV in The Triumph of Love.  France's most influential playwright of the eighteenth century, Pierre Carlet de Marivaux, pens a captivating classic about the art of love.  Lillian Groag (Enter the Guardsman) returns to the Rep to mount the world premiere of her own adaptation of this elegantly composed classic.

A co-production with California Shakespeare Theater, The Triumph of Love runs September 22 - October 21, 2007, at San Jose Repertory Theatre, located in downtown San Jose at 101 Paseo de San Antonio.  Preview performances are September 22, 23, 26 & 27; Opening is Friday, September 28 at 8PM.

Tickets are available at the San Jose Rep Box Office at 101 Paseo de San Antonio or can be purchased online at www.SJRep.com or by calling (408) 367-7255.

Adaptor and director Lillian Groag is an accomplished actor, director and writer.  Groag has appeared on stage on Broadway, off-Broadway, and at the Mark Taper Forum.

Rep favorites Dan Hiatt (Hermocrates) and Stacy Ross (Leonide, in disguise as Phocion) lead a cast that includes Ron Campbell (Dimas); Catherine Castellanos (Corine, in disguise as Hermidas); Domenique Lozano (Leontine); Danny Scheie (Arlecchino); and Jud Williford (Agis).

"In The Triumph of Love, love demands both sacrifice and ruthlessness from its enchanting and resourceful heroine. Princess Leonide (Stacy Ross) will stop at nothing to win the heart of Agis (Jud Williford) in this bedazzling timeless classic.  She learns that Agis is the rightful heir to the throne she occupies having been raised in seclusion by a philosopher, Hermocrates (Dan Hiatt), and his scientist sister, Leontine (Domenique Lozano).  Accompanied by her resourceful companion, Corine (Catherine Castellanos), Leonide and Corine slip into the philosopher's garden disguised as men.  Leonide is soon found out to be a woman and must now seduce everyone in her path to achieve her goal.  In the process, she causes all three, the philosopher, the scientist and Agis, to fall in love with her various personas. Full of delicious deception, gender confusions and all the complexities of l'amour; Marivaux, the master of delicate irony, reveals the beauty, absurdities and bittersweet nature of love," explain press notes.

The creative team includes Frederick Kluck, who worked with Groag on the translation; Kate Edmunds (Set Designer); Raquel Barreto (Costume Designer); Russell Champa (Lighting Designer); and Jeff Mokus (Sound Designer). The production stage manager is Laxmi Kumaran.

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