ONDINE, A Play in Six Scenes: New Classic Adaptations for the Stage, Vol. 5 - Softcover

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ONDINE, A Play in Six Scenes, by Gavin Bantock
New Classic Adaptations for the Stage, Vol. 5

The beautiful but sad legend of the sea nymph Ondine, who longs to possess a human soul, but tragically discovers the incompatibility of a union between mortal and immortal.

The willful spirited Ondine is adopted by a poor fisherman and his wife, who lost their own baby daughter many years before. Later, Ondine falls in love with Sir Roland, a handsome knight, and they are married, but Ondine finds it impossible to live happily in the human world.

She meets Brianna, a royal princess previously engaged to Roland. Brianna is furious that the knight has betrayed her, but, in a dramatic turn of events, Ondine reveals that Brianna is not really a princess at all, All three are united by the mystical forces of destiny, watched over by the Old One, Lord of the Earth.

A mysterious and romantic fantasy with a constant background of the sea.

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