Successful Strategies by Andrea Stolowitz

Your Mind is a Vineyard; Your thoughts are the Vines; Grow Grapes and Make Wine!

This play is an adaptation of Marivaux's Successful Strategies. The original play deals with the handlings, schemes, and strategies around trying to make love stay in 1733 Burgundy, France, the ancestral home of the Pinot Noir grape.The adaptation examines the same questions, but it takes place now in Oregon the North American home of the Pinot Noir grape.

It’s a play about love, grape growing, wine making, personal relationships and the characters farcical endeavours to Make Love Stay.

Susan - A strong-willed and opinionated woman who may be attracted to John.

Hugh - Susan’s skilled but emotional winemaker husband. Curiously infatuated with Misty.

John - A Tech Millionaire and “wine tourist”. He has the money but very naive of the skills required to manage a vineyard. Has a new found attraction to his neighbour.

Misty - An artistic hippie in search of herself. Is she or is she not John’s fiancee?

Natasha - Susan and Hugh’s 20 something daughter. Does she want a relationship with Laurent or is she just tormenting her parents?

Laurent - A very pretentious French exchange student and somewhat of a poet. Young and desperately seeking love.

George - A verbose and philosophical Emergency Services worker.