Marius (play)

Marius
Written by	Marcel Pagnol
Date premiered	1929
Original language	French
Genre	Drama
Setting	Marseilles, France

Marius is a 1929 play by the French writer Marcel Pagnol. It takes place in Marseilles, where a young man named Marius working in a café dreams of going to sea, his obsession eventually overcoming his developing romance with Fanny, a local girl.

Two years later a British version Sea Fever by John Van Druten was staged unsuccessfully in the West End.^[1] The same year Pagnol wrote a sequel Fanny.

Film adaptation[]

In 1931 the play was turned into a film Marius directed by Alexander Korda for the French subsidiary of Paramount Pictures with a screenplay written by Pagnol himself. In 1938 this was remade as an American film Port of Seven Seas by James Whale.^[2] In 2013 it was remade by Daniel Auteuil.

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
• Wearing, J.P. The London Stage 1930-1939: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.

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