Here’s the setup: A young man has lived with his male lover for a few years. During a spat he falls for a woman. Things have gotten complicated and he…
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When Hans, a handsome but not-so-smart knight-errant of Wittenstein, meets the unbridled naiad Ondine at a fisherman’s cottage in the woods, they fall recklessly in love and marry—a union that is not possible for beings from two different realms. Compounding the troubles of the ill-fated couple is Bertha, a cultivated princess betrothed to Hans, who sent him on his life-altering quest through the forest, and The Old One, who enforces a fatal pact that seals their destinies. Enchantment, romance, humor, and tragedy characterize Jean Giraudoux’s ONDINE of 1939 (based on the German Romantic novella UNDINE of 1811), and the Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s charming production captures all the magic, heartache, and absurdity of love, as well as the inescapable realities of the established social order, the world, and life itself, in this rarely-performed classic.
