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23.02.12

Anyone who has ever whirled away a couple of twenties at a Vegas slot machine or gotten mildly addicted to online blackjack knows the chancy appeal of gambling. Eighteenth-century English playwright Susanna Centlivre clearly did, too, since she populated her 1705 work “The Basset Table” with a pack of card-game-addicted courtiers. “Centlivre used gambling as a metaphor for the risks inherent in romantic relationships and court society,” says actress Emily Trask, who plays Valeria, one of four women who find themselves wheeling and dealing for their love lives in a country house-cum-casino in Folger Theatre’s modernized version of the play “The Gaming Table.”

The other richly drawn female characters — the gaming table’s instigator, Lady Reveller; pious Lady Lucy; and striving, middle-class gambling addict Mrs. Sago — find themselves as spun around by their hearts as by their luck at cards. “It’s great to see such vital, living, breathing women,” says director Eleanor Holdridge. “I think people find it surprising that, in that era, they weren’t just meek little wives or dashing seductresses.”

Source: Express from The Washington Post