Ondine

Full-length drama / 7f, 6m

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

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