Ondine

Full-length drama / 7f, 6m

A new adaptation of Jean Giraudoux’s classic play: Traveling through an enchanted forest, the knight-errant Hans falls in love with a water sprite named Ondine, despite his engagement to a woman of the court. Ondine's supernatural relatives are skeptical of the match, so Ondine wagers with Hans's life: should he betray her, he will die. Once married and living in Hans's world of courtly intrigue, trouble quickly threatens the young lovers' happiness. A playful, poetic, highly theatrical, and bittersweet fairy tale of love and what comes after.

Ondine was developed at the Jean Cocteau Repertory, directed by Carolyn Cantor; the American Conservatory Theater, directed by Kent Nicholson; and received its world premiere at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, directed by Gina Kaufmann.