Nick Hern Books, 2001

Drama Classics

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (15), Female (6), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Georges Feydeau’s A Flea in Her Ear (La puce à l’oreille) is a classic French farce, first performed at the Théâtre des Nouveautés in Paris on 2 March 1907. Stephen Mulrine, in his introduction to this translation...

Methuen Drama, 2001

World Classics

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (16), Female (4), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...M. Pinglet’s plans for a romantic night at a seedy hotel with his neighbour’s wife, Marcelle, are thrown into disarray by the arrival of his friend Mathieu and his large family , and by his own wife’s close attentions to his comings...

Methuen Drama, 2002

World Classics

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Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Jailbird is an early farce by Georges Feydeau. Tranlsator Kenneth McLeish writes that 'it was one item in a miscellaneous programme of monologues, comic songs and daft poems . . . The piece shows occasional apprentice touches...

Methuen Drama, 2001

World Classics

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Now You See It is a tale of love, jealousy, infidelity and hypnotism. Ribadier, the second wife of widow Angèle, evades his wife’s paranoid jealousy by means of his skills as a hypnotist. However, his cosy system begins to fall apart when...

Methuen Drama, 2001

World Classics

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (8), Female (3), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Pig in a Poke, as the title suggests, is a play about a case of mistaken identity: expecting a famous tenor to come and perform in his daughter’s rewriting of Faust, the wealthy sugar-baron Pacarel instead receives, unbeknownst to him...

Methuen Drama, 2001

World Classics

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (18), Female (6), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...Pontagnac, good friend of Vatelin, desires Vatelin’s wife, Lucienne, so much that he will betray his friend’s secret: that his friend betrayed his wife with another woman, Maggy. But will that give Pontagnac enough leverage to turn Lucienne...

Methuen Drama, 2002

World Classics

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Acts: 4, Roles: Total (12), Female (2), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...Alcide Chanal is recording a message of congratulations on his phonograph to send to his sister ahead of her wedding, but is interrupted by a string of guests – his friend Hubertin, and the politician Coustillou – as well as his wife...

Methuen Drama, 2002

World Classics

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (21), Female (7), Male (14), Unassigned (0)

...Discussing the manner in which a middle-class man is saved from retribution for an apparently illicit tryst by a level-headed woman of supposedly low morals, translator Kenneth McLeish writes that The Girl from Maxim's comes 'close...

Methuen Drama, 2001

World Classics

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (9), Female (3), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Duchotel is going away on a fishing trip, leaving his wife, Léontine, alone for the weekend. Lucky for him he has his friend Moricet to look after her. Lucky for Moricet too, as he is in love with Léontine. Can he whisk her off to his love...