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A year after having won the Molière (the French equivalent of the Tony awards), for the best public theater performance for his directing of Juste la fin du monde, by Jean-Luc Lagarce at the Comédie-Française, Michel Raskine has chosen to take on Marivaux. This Jeu de l’amour, the comical pinnacle of the repertoire, is also one of the most caustic and astonishing, but also the one that rings the truest and is the most attentive to the text that we have seen in a long time. Marivaux, one of our contemporaries ? Undoubtedly, and the reason may appear paradoxical. Because Raskine has decided to invert the ages of the roles. By calling on, amongst others, Christine Brotons and Jean-Louis Delorme, the protean Stéphane Bernard and the grand Marief Guittier, in other words his « usual gang » (the expression is his), Raskine offers us a cruel comedy about aging, one that makes us think more of « a final love story ». In this quartet for fifty-somethings, where each character is playing for broke with the virtuosity of their words and their emotions, a certain twilight elegance lends the incomparable intensity of Marivaux’s masterpiece, unexpected relief and contours.