The Enchanted (play)
1950 English adaptation by Maurice Valency of the play Intermezzo
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::summary 1950 English adaptation by Maurice Valency of the play Intermezzo ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | The Enchanted |
| writer | Jean Giraudoux |
| characters | The Mayor, Isobel, |
| The Doctor, | |
| The Ghost, | |
| The Inspector, | |
| The Supervisor, | |
| Armande Mangebois, | |
| Leonide Mangebois, | |
| Gilberte, Daisy, Lucy, | |
| Viola, Denise, Irene, | |
| Marie-Louise | |
| setting | A clearing in the woods, Limousin in France |
| premiere | 27 February 1933 |
| place | Comedie des Champs-Elysees in Paris |
| orig_lang | French |
| subject | A provincial town is haunted by a ghost |
| genre | Drama |
| :: |
| name = The Enchanted | image = | caption = | writer = Jean Giraudoux | characters = The Mayor, Isobel, The Doctor, The Ghost, The Inspector, The Supervisor, Armande Mangebois, Leonide Mangebois, Gilberte, Daisy, Lucy, Viola, Denise, Irene, Marie-Louise | setting = A clearing in the woods, Limousin in France | premiere = 27 February 1933 | place = Comedie des Champs-Elysees in Paris | orig_lang = French | subject = A provincial town is haunted by a ghost | genre = Drama
*** The Enchanted *** is a 1950 English adaptation by Maurice Valency of the play * Intermezzo * written in 1933 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux.
Original productions
Intermezzo was translated into English as The Enchanted by Maurice Valency, in Jean Giraudoux, Four Plays, vol. 1 (1958), and by Roger Gellert, in Jean Giraudoux, Plays, vol. 2 (1967).
- Intermezzo * was first performed on 27 February 1933 in Paris at the Comedie des Champs-Elysees in a production by Louis Jouvet.
Maurice Valency's adaptation The Enchanted opened at New York's Lyceum Theatre on 18 January 1950 in a production staged by George S. Kaufman, starring Leueen MacGrath, Malcolm Keen, and John Baragrey.
References
References
- Cohen, Robert (1968), ''Jean Giraudoux; Three Faces of Destiny'', p. 158, University of Chicago Press, Chicago. {{ISBN. 0-226-11248-9
- Grossvogel, David I. (1958), '' 20th Century French Drama'', p. 341, Columbia University Press, New York.
- Inskip, Donald, (1958), '' Jean Giraudoux, The Making of a Dramatist'', p. 182, Oxford University Press, New York.
- [http://www.ibdb.com/show.php?ID=3334 IBD Internet Broadway Database], Retrieved 24 September 2010.
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