Marius (play)

Marius
Written by	Marcel Pagnol
Date premiered	1929
Original language	French
Genre	Drama
Setting	Marseilles, France

Marius is a 1929 play by the French writer Marcel Pagnol. It takes place in Marseilles, where a young man named Marius working in a café dreams of going to sea, his obsession eventually overcoming his developing romance with Fanny, a local girl.

Two years later a British version Sea Fever by John Van Druten was staged unsuccessfully in the West End.^[1] The same year Pagnol wrote a sequel Fanny.