For the band, see La Dispute (band)

La Dispute (band)

La Dispute is a five piece band from Grand Rapids, Michigan that formed in 2004. As of 2011, they have released two albums and seven EPs. La Dispute consists of lead vocalist Jordan Dreyer, drummer Brad Vander Lugt, guitarists Chad Sterenberg and Kevin Whittemore and bass guitarist Adam Vass.The...

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La Dispute is a prose comedy written by Pierre de Marivaux

Pierre de Marivaux

Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux , commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French novelist and dramatist....

, shown for the first time on 19 October 1744 by the Theatre-Italien in the Hotel de Bourgogne.

The story involves four orphans (2 boys and 2 girls) that have been raised in isolation, from the world and from each other. An aristocrat releases four human guinea pigs into a sinister 'Garden of Eden'

Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden is in the Bible's Book of Genesis as being the place where the first man, Adam, and his wife, Eve, lived after they were created by God. Literally, the Bible speaks about a garden in Eden...

to cause them to consider the question of whether man or woman is more faithful.

One of Marivaux's last pieces, La Dispute was received as a huge failure. It is a funny, erotic and cruel masterpiece.

An adaptation was produced at Dublin's Peacock Theatre in early 2009.