The Enchanted (play)

The Enchanted is a 1950 English adaptation by Maurice Valency of the play Intermezzo written in 1933 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux.

The Enchanted
Written by	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
Date premiered	27 February 1933
Place premiered	Comedie des Champs-Elysees in Paris
Original language	French
Subject	A provincial town is haunted by a ghost
Genre	Drama
Setting	A clearing in the woods, Limousin in France

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).[1]

Intermezzo was first performed on 27 February 1933[2] in Paris at the Comedie des Champs-Elysees in a production by Louis Jouvet.[3]

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.[4]

References

1. Cohen, Robert (1968), Jean Giraudoux; Three Faces of Destiny, p. 158, University of Chicago Press, Chicago. ISBN 0-226-11248-9
2. Grossvogel, David I. (1958), 20th Century French Drama, p. 341, Columbia University Press, New York.
3. Inskip, Donald, (1958), Jean Giraudoux, The Making of a Dramatist, p. 182, Oxford University Press, New York.
4. IBD Internet Broadway Database, Retrieved 24 September 2010.

External links

• The Enchanted at the Internet Broadway Database
• The Enchanted at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• Giraudoux, Jean; Adapted by Maurice Valency (1958). Four Plays: Volume 1. New York: Hill and Wang. ISBN 0-8090-0712-6. Retrieved 20 January 2011.
• Jean Giraudoux; Roger Gellert (1967). Plays: Amphitryon. Intermezzo. Ondine. New York: Oxford University Press. OCLC 5691905.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)