- Georges Neveux
Georges Neveux (1900-1982) was a French
dramatist andpoet .Neveux's first notable work was the play "Juliette ou la clé des songes (Juliet or the key to dreams)", written in 1927 and produced in 1930. It became the basis of
Martinů 'sopera ,Julietta . Like most of Neveux's work, it is of asurrealist nature.During the 1930s, when he was general secretary of the
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées , he wrote little. In 1943 appeared "Le Voyage de Thésée (The Voyage ofTheseus )", which was also later adapted by Martinů as an opera "(Ariane", 1958). In 1945 he translated, and considerably adapted in the surrealaist tradition,Shakespeare 's "A Midsummer Night's Dream ".Neveux also wrote numerous filmscripts, although he greatly preferred the theatre; as he said, 'the first because one must earn a living, the second because one must deserve to live'.
Bibliography
Germaine Bree, "Georges Neveux: A Theatre of Adventure", in Yale French Studies, vol IV (1954)
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