Tessa (play)

Tessa (French title: Tessa, la nymphe au cœur fidèle) is a play written in 1934 by French dramatist Jean Giraudoux. It is a translation and adaptation of a 1926 stage version by Margaret Kennedy and Basil Dean of the former's 1924 novel The Constant Nymph.

Original productions Tessa was first performed on 14 November 1934Grossvogel, David I. (1958), 20th Century French Drama, p. 341, Columbia University Press, New York. in Paris at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in a production by Louis JouvetInskip, Donald, (1958), Jean Giraudoux, The Making of a Dramatist, p. 182, Oxford University Press, New York. with music by Maurice Jaubert.

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