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Georges Feydeau

A Flea in Her Ear: Full Text and Introduction (NHB Drama Classics)

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A classic French farce of infidelity and mistaken identity.
A suspicious wife sets a trap to expose her supposedly faithless husband. The husband however bears an uncanny resemblance to a drunken porter, and when circumstances bring the two into proximity in the seedy Hotel Casablanca, all hell breaks loose.
Georges Feydeau's play A Flea in Her Ear (La puce à l'oreille) was first performed at the Théâtre des Nouveautés in Paris in March 1907.
This English translation by Kenneth McLeish is published in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, with an introduction by Stephen Mulrine.
113 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2014
Publication year
2014
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  • b3549394403has quoted3 months ago
    In the hall (visible when the main doors are open): table with telephone. As the curtain rises, CAMILLE is standing by the writing-desk, reading a document which he has taken from one of the drawers. After a moment, ANTOINETTE creeps in, tiptoes up behind him, takes his head in her hands from behind and gives him a quick kiss.

    En el recibidor (visible cuando las puertas principales están abiertas): mesa con teléfono. Mientras se levanta el telón, CAMILLE está de pie junto al escritorio leyendo un documento que ha sacado de uno de los cajones. Después de un momento, ANTOINETTE entra sigilosamente, se pone de puntillas detrás de él, toma su cabeza entre sus manos por detrás y le da un beso rápido.

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