Shipwrecked on an island ruled entirely by slaves, the master and mistress of this eighteenth century comedy find themselves subjected to a psychological experiment in role reversal with their respective servants. Small Moving Parts go back to the Commedia dell' Arte roots of this witty, philosophical comedy to show that it still packs a comic punch. A therapeutic night out for slaves of all kinds

It is a light-hearted comic fantasy, probing the emotional ties between masters and servants, bosses and employees. Marivaux enjoyed creating fantasy experiments - in this case on an island not unlike Prospero's island, in Shakespeare's The Tempest - where slaves have created a utopian community. No more masters, no more bosses. The comedy explores what happens to some masters and servants washed up on these strange shores...