A Flea in Her Ear

Flea in Her Ear, A (La Puce à l'oreille)

    Alternative Title: Caught in the Act!

    Author: Georges Feydeau

    First Performance: 1907, Paris

    Published: 1909

    First English Translation: 1966

    Genre: Farce in 3 acts; French prose

    Setting: The Chandebises' drawing room, Paris, and a hotel in the suburbs, 1900s

    Cast: 10m, 5f, extras

Victor Emmanuel Chandebise manages the Paris office of an international insurance company. His wife Raymonde has a ‘flea in her ear’ because she is convinced that he is unfaithful. She engages her friend Lucienne to expose him by writing him a love letter inviting him to an assignation at a hotel. Chandebise, who is suffering from impotence, can only imagine that the letter is intended for his better-looking friend Tournel, and sends...

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