Georges Neveux


Georges Neveux was a French dramatist and poet.
Neveux's first notable work was the play Juliette ou la clé des songes , written in 1927 and produced in 1930. It became the basis of Theodor Schaefer's 1934 melodrama Julie aneb Snar for piano, jazz instruments, and small orchestra; for Bohuslav Martinů's 1937 opera Julietta, and for the 1951 film Juliette, or Key of Dreams.
During the 1930s, when he was general secretary of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, he wrote little. In 1943 there appeared Le Voyage de Thésée , which was also later adapted by Martinů as an opera . In 1945 he translated and adapted Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream''.
Neveux also wrote numerous filmscripts, although he greatly preferred the theatre. As he said: 'the first because one must earn a living, the second because one must deserve to live'.
In 1982 he was awarded the Grand Prix du Théâtre de l’Académie Française.

Selected filmography