Overview

Audrey Hepburn created a sensation on Broadway in the title role winning a Tony Award as an ethereal sea nymph who falls in love with a handsome nobleman only to lose true love to the harsh realities of the outside world.

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Details

  • Genre: Fantasy, Period
  • Cast Attributes: Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible)
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for All Audiences

Authors

Maurice Valency

Maurice Valency (1903-1996) was a playwright, author, critic and popular professor of Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He was best known for his award-winning adaptations of plays by Jean Giraudoux (The Madwoman of Chaillot, Ondine, The Enchanted and The Apollo ...
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Jean Giraudoux

Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux was a French playwright, novelist, and diplomat whose witty, originally expressed works in an impressionistic style helped free French theater from the restrictions of realism. He wrote fifteen internationally acclaimed plays, most initially staged by ...
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