Product Description: On purge bébé de Georges Feydeau est une pièce caricaturale de son époque. Il s'agit d'une comédie dépeignant grossièrement les problèmes de société du xxe siècle. Il est notamment question de la condition féminine (qui commence à faire parler d'elle aux États-Unis) et du châtiment corporel...read more

Product Description: "L’Hôtel du libre échange" par Georges Feydeau. Georges Feydeau était un auteur dramatique français (1862-1921).

Product Description: "L’amour doit se taire" par Georges Feydeau. Georges Feydeau était un auteur dramatique français (1862-1921).

Product Description: "L’Affaire Édouard" par Georges Feydeau. Georges Feydeau était un auteur dramatique français (1862-1921).

Product Description: "L’Homme de paille" par Georges Feydeau. Georges Feydeau était un auteur dramatique français (1862-1921).

Product Description: "Occupe-toi d’Amélie !" par Georges Feydeau. Georges Feydeau était un auteur dramatique français (1862-1921).

The wife of an insurance magnate, suspicious that her husband is having an affair, sends him a lascvicious invitation from an "anonymous" admirer, just to see if he’ll show. The action of A Flea in Her Ear, one of the best-known French farces, takes us to the sleazy Lanterne Rouge Hotel with a fine crop of mocking, mistaking, insulting, groping, kicking and mimicing, all in a spanking new translation.

Product Description: Full Length, Farce/ 5 m, 3 f, extras / 2 ints. Here is the hilarious frolic that launched Feydeau in Paris as the Neil Simon of his day. Take one philandering husband; add his virtuous wife set on revenge, and a doctor determined to be her instrument of revenge; mix well with the husband's friend who is eager to trap his spouse in flagrante delicto and a young nephew with a cocotte to round out his education; toss them together at 13 Rue de L'Amour where a love starved German countess is the concierge; season with a befuddled police inspector and a perky French maid...read more

Product Description: Georges Feydeau wrote numerous full-length and one-act plays and monologues. His success was founded on carefully plotted comedy, combining ingeniously created characters and elements of vaudeville. Describing himself as a writer of vaudeville, he is now considered one of the best writers of French farce...read more

Product Description: Kenneth McLeish's definitive translations of the most successful French dramatist of the Belle EpoqueGeorges Feydau (1862-1921) was the most successful French dramatist of the belle epoque and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest of farce-writers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Disparaged as potboilers and disdained as "mere entertainment", boulevard comedies are traditionally given short shrift by critics - although audiences have warmed to them for over two hundred years. These are the comedies and farces about infidelity, mistaken identity and misguided amours that have no "redeeming social value"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Wild plots and quicksilver wit characterize the plays of Georges Feydeau. Called the greatest master of French comedy since Moliere by admirers such as Kenneth Tynan, Feydeau reflects the lusty tradition of the French bedroom farce as well as the tough exorbitant humor later to find full expression in the theater of the absurd...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Four engaging by the greatest farceur of all. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Georges Feydeau (1862-1921) is considered second only to Molière as a great writer of French comedy and yet his reputation, at least in English-speaking countries, rests largely on a half dozen plays. This book features new translations of five of his lesser known works as seen from the perspective of a stage director: Brothers In Crime (Gibier de potence), The Dressmaker (Tailleur pour dames), All My Husbands (Le mariage de Barillon), That's My Girl! (Occupe-toi d'Amélie), and Nothing But The Tooth (Hortense a dit: «Je m'en fous»)...read more

Product Description: Georges Feydeau's elegantly complex play is brought to life in this witty, seamless and acutely funny translation by Peter Hall and Nicki Frei. Feydeau, the supreme master of farce, displays all his dramatic tricks as his characters are pulled back and forth spinning dizzily in a surrealistic climax of complications...read more

In a new translation of Feydeau's farce, a middle-aged man arranges a rendezvous in a small hotel with his best friend's beautiful young wife

Product Description: Hector Ennepeque, first-time father to be, is in extended labor and protracted comic convulsions over his wife Leonie's imminent delivery. Before the baby's arrival, this hilarious farce gives birth to multiple comic harangues all aimed a the helpless henpecked husband...read more