Marius (play)

Marius
Written byMarcel Pagnol
Date premiered1929
Original languageFrench
GenreDrama
SettingMarseilles, 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.

  1. ^ Wearing p.129