Amphitryon 38 is a play written in 1929 by the French dramatist Jean Giraudoux, the number in the title being Giraudoux's whimsical approximation of how many times the story had been told on stage previously.
Original productions Amphitryon 38 was translated into English in 1938 by S. N. Behrman,Cohen, Robert (1968), Jean Giraudoux; Three Faces of Destiny, p. 158, University of Chicago Press, Chicago in 1964 by Phyllis La Farge and Peter H. Judd,Giraudoux, Jean (1964), Three Plays, vol 2, Translated by Phyllis La Farge and Peter H. Judd, Hill and Wang, New York and in 1967 by Roger Gellert.
Amphitryon 38 was first performed on 8 November 1929Grossvogel, David I. (1958), 20th Century French Drama, p. 341, Columbia University Press, New York. in Paris at the Comedie des Champs-Elysees in a production by Louis Jouvet.Inskip, Donald, (1958), Jean Giraudoux, The Making of a Dramatist, p. 182, Oxford University Press, New York.
An English production of Amphitryon 38, starring Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, opened at New York's Shubert Theatre on 1 November 1937.performingartsarchive.com: Amphitryon 38, Shubert Theatre playbill
In 1957 a BBC production included its first piece of commissioned electronic music, created by Daphne Oram.
References
External links Full text of Amphitryon 38 at Internet Archive