Shotgun Players revives ‘Triumph of Love,’ an 18th-century comedy about a Machiavellian love plot that seemingly everyone knows is doomed.
“The Triumph of Love” is a comedy as cruel as it is clever.
Having fallen in love with this prince in exile at first sight, she wants to marry him and give him the throne, but she knows he’s been raised by the philosopher Hermocrate to hate the princess. So she decides to dress up as a man and infiltrate the philosopher’s home to woo prince Agis in disguise. In order to be allowed to stick around long enough to do that, however, she plans to make both the philosopher and his sister fall in love with her as well.
Veronica Renner, who was in that “Great Comet,” is a sharp-witted Léonide, confident and charismatic and callous about the Machiavellian manipulations she uses to get her way. Though handsomely attired by costume designer Ashley Renee, her male guise would hardly fool anyone, but almost everyone either sees through it or learns about it soon enough anyway.
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