These two at once took their place as stock pieces and are still ranked among the best French plays, each of its class.
Their speciality was the adaptation of French plays to the American stage.
It runs for 68 consecutive performances, earning higher box-office receipts than any other French play of the century.
The original French play on which the film is based was given its first performance in Paris in 1959.
If you'd said to me, this is a French play translated, I'd have agreed.
"Like the character in the old French play who didn't know he was talking prose."
That is certainly possible if the mercurial French play to their potential.
After then, women began to appear in both French and English plays.
She presented the academy with poems, translated French plays and planned to write a book about physics for women.
He was paid to translate several French plays for production in London.