Rex Harrison
Victor Chandebisse/Poche
Search results
A Flea in Her Ear (French: La Puce à l'oreille) is a play by Georges Feydeau written in 1907, at the height of the Belle Époque. The author called it a vaudeville, but in Anglophone countries, where it is the most popular of Feydeau's plays, it is usually described as a farce.
- Ruby Cohn, Georges Feydeau, Barnett Shaw
- 1968
This farcical French play is set in France at the turn of the 20th Century. Raymonde Chandebise suspects that her husband, Victor Emmanuel Chandebise, is having an affair after he suddenly becomes sexually inactive and seemingly uninterested in her (which in fact is due to a nervous condition).
Sep 5, 2023 · “A Flea in her Ear,” is a play written by the French playwright Georges Feydeau in 1907. During the play, Raymonde Chandebise, who has been happily married for years, begins to believe that her...
A Flea in Her Ear is a 1907 play written by the French playwright Georges Feydeau. Set in Paris at the turn of the twentieth century, the play is a sex-themed farce involving mistaken identity and absurd misunderstandings.
Aug 5, 2020 · A Flea in Her Ear perfectly represents Feydeau’s dramatic genius and the satisfying formula he employed to produce his breathlessly energized comedies. The comic explosion that ignites the farce is the “flea” of jealousy that infects Raymonde, whose loving husband, Chandebise, has recently been unable to fulfill his conjugal duties.
The lovely Raymonde Chandebise wonders why her husband has stopped visiting her bedroom, and assumes he must be having an affair. So she asks her friend Lucienne to write him a love letter meant to lure him to a rendezvous where she can catch him in the act of being unfaithful.
Sep 5, 2023 · A Flea in Her Ear is 1907 play written by French playwright Georges Feydeau. Some analysts argue that a more accurate translation of the title would be A Bee in her Bonnet....
