L'Impromptu de Paris explained

L'Impromptu de Paris
Setting:	A theatre stage
Premiere:	3 December 1937
Place:	Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris
Orig Lang:	French
Subject:	A play about the theatre itself
Genre:	Drama

L'Impromptu de Paris (In English: The Shepherd of Paris) is a play written in 1937 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux.

Original productions

L'Impromptu de Paris was first performed on 3 December 1937^[1] in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in a production by Louis Jouvet.^[2]

L'Impromptu de Paris was translated into English by Rima Dell Reck, in the Tulane Drama Review (1959).^[3]

References

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.
3. Cohen, Robert (1968), Jean Giraudoux; Three Faces of Destiny, p. 158, University of Chicago Press, Chicago