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, and the American Conservatory Theater, directed by Kent Nicholson. Photos below are from the adaptation’s world premiere at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, directed by Gina Kaufmann. More photos and information here.