The Lottery of Love review " sex and sadism in a class-hopping comedy of manners
Orange Tree, Richmond Servants and employers swap places with a great deal of amorous confusion in a sparkling revival of Marivaux's classicIn the past, we've seen Marivaux's classic comedy Le jeu de l'amour et du hasard updated from the 1730s to the 1930s. However John Fowles's translation, originally commissioned by the National Theatre, more subtly moves the action to Regency England. As Fowles himself observed, M…