Martine

Martine (1922) is a play by French playwright Jean-Jacques Bernard [1] (1888-1972). The play is about a country girl who, married later, finds her heart throbbing for a youth whom she had met casually years before. Published in The Sulky fire : five plays, translated from the French by John Leslie Frith, Jonathan Cape, 1939. Also containing The Sulky Fire, The Springime of Others, Invitation to a Voyage, The Unquiet Spirit.

Produced c. 1943 by Joyce Burch in the Little Theatre with Zoë Randall, Richard Buncher, Fred Gluck, Nell Angles, Joan Lindstrom. Sets by Cecil Pym.

Sources

Trek, 7(15):17 1943.

South African Opinion, 1(11):20, 1945.

World Drama, by Allardyce Nicoll. Harrap, 1949.

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