Georges Neveux (1900â€"1982) was a French dramatist and poet.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 Theodor Schaefer's 1934 melodrama Julie aneb Snar (Julie
or the Book of Dreams) for piano, jazz instruments, and small
orchestra; for Bohuslav Martinů's 1937 opera Julietta, and for the
1951 film Juliette, or Key of Dreams.During the 1930s, when he was
general secretary of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, he wrote
little. In 1943 there appeared Le Voyage de Thésée (The Voyage of
Theseus), which was also later adapted by Martinů as an opera
(Ariane, 1958). In 1945 he translated and adapted 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'.
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 Theodor Schaefer's 1934 melodrama Julie aneb Snar (Julie
or the Book of Dreams) for piano, jazz instruments, and small
orchestra; for Bohuslav Martinů's 1937 opera Julietta, and for the
1951 film Juliette, or Key of Dreams.During the 1930s, when he was
general secretary of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, he wrote
little. In 1943 there appeared Le Voyage de Thésée (The Voyage of
Theseus), which was also later adapted by Martinů as an opera
(Ariane, 1958). In 1945 he translated and adapted 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'.
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