Tessa (play)

Tessa
Tessa
Written by	Jean Giraudoux
Characters	Tessa Badamo
Date premiered	14 November 1934
Place premiered	Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris
Original language	French
Subject	Overcoming fears and hardtimes
Genre	Drama
Setting	18th century, Scotland

Tessa (French title: Tessa, la nymphe au cœur fidèle) is a play written in 1934 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux. It is a translation and adaptation of a 1926 stage version by Margaret Kennedy and Basil Dean of the former's 1924 novel The Constant Nymph.

Original productions

Tessa was first performed on 14 November 1934^[1] in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in a production by Louis Jouvet.^[2]

References

^ Grossvogel, David I. (1958), 20th Century French Drama, p. 341, Columbia University Press, New York.
^ Inskip, Donald, (1958), Jean Giraudoux, The Making of a Dramatist, p. 182, Oxford University Press, New York.

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[1] Grossvogel, David I. (1958), 20th Century French Drama, p. 341, Columbia University Press, New York.

[2] Inskip, Donald, (1958), Jean Giraudoux, The Making of a Dramatist, p. 182, Oxford University Press, New York.

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