Download or read book Feydeau Plays 1 written by Georges Feydeau and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenneth McLeish's definitive translations of the most successful French dramatist of the Belle Epoque Georges 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. His series of dazzling hits match high-speed action and dialogue with ingenious plotting. Reaching the heights of farcical lunacy, his plays nevertheless contain touches of barbed social comment and allowed him to mention subjects which would have provoked outrage in the hands of more serious dramatists. This volume of new, sparkling translations by Kenneth McLeish contains his two masterpieces, Heart's Desire Hotel (L'Hôtel du libre échange) and Sauce For the Goose (Le Dindon), with three other plays from the peak of his career, The One That Got Away (Monsieur Chasse!), Now You See It (Le System Ribadier) and Pig in a Poke (Chat en poche).

Download or read book Feydeau Three Farces written by George Feydeau and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georges Feydeau, once considered as purveyor of slapstick farces, is now accepted as France’s best comic dramatist since Moliere. He once said that to make people laugh you have to place your cast in a dramatic situation and then observe them from a comic angle, but they must never do or say anything which is not strictly demanded, first by their character and secondly by the plot. Includes the plays Fitting for Ladies, A Close Shave and Sauce for the Goose. In Fitting for Ladies, a man on the look-out for a new romantic rendezvous is mistaken for a dressmaker... In A Close Shave, a woman's would-be lover has to assume the identity of her artist husband, who is about to be called up for military service. In Sauce for the Goose, a man discovers that the woman he is pursuing is the wife of an old friend...

Download or read book Dormez je le veux Georges Feydeau written by Georges Feydeau and published by Clearcolor Editions. This book was released on with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Feydeau Plays 2 written by Georges Feydeau and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenneth McLeish's definitive translations of the most successful French dramatist of the Belle Epoque Georges 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. His series of dazzling hits matched high-speed action and dialogue with ingenious plotting. Reaching the heights of farcical lunacy, his plays nevertheless contain touches of barbed social comment and allowed him to mention subjects which would have provoked outrage in the hands of more serious dramatists. This volume of new, sparkling translations by Kenneth McLeish contains two plays from the peak of his career, The Girl from Maxim 's and She's All Yours (La Main Passe), together with an early work, Jailbird (Gibier de potence).

Download or read book A Flea in her Ear written by George Feydeau and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eccentric and hillarious, Georges Feydeau’s much loved comedy mixes madness, mayhem, fun and frivolity. When the beautiful wife of Victor Chandebise suspects of having an affair, she enlists the help of her dearest friend to entrap him. Their plan to entice him to a rendezvous at the Hotel Coq D'or spectacularly misfires and chaos ensues. Set in the decadent surroundings of Belle Époque Paris, Feydeau's quintessential farce promises to be an exhilerating even of mistaken identities and comic disaster.

Download or read book Four Farces written by Georges Feydeau and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1998 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The plays offered in this volume represent the major stages of Feydeau's career. The one-act Wooed and Viewed was his first comedy, written in 1880. On the Marry-go-Wrong shows Feydeau on the way to becoming a master of mad imbroglio, a talent that he demonstrates in Not by Bed Alone. Going to Pot is a one-act play of conjugal strife of the emotional intensity that marked his work toward the end of his career.

Download or read book Feydeau First to Last written by Georges Feydeau and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2001 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Feydeau was the greatest of a great age of French farceurs and the first to enter the modern repertory. Of the more than 40 plays Feydeau wrote, over a third were one-acts. In this volume, Shapiro has selected and translated eight of these one-act plays, among them Feydeau's first and last works. Includes: Ladies' Man * Wooed and Viewed * Romance in A Flat * Fit to Be Tried, or, Stepbrothers in Crime * Mixed Doubles * The Boor Hug * Caught with His Trance Down * Tooth and Consequences, or, Hortense Said: "No Skin Off My Ass!"

Download or read book A Flea in Her Ear written by Georges Feydeau and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Although the adaptor has moved the action of the play into the twentieth century (which serves to heighten the sexual allusions which make the play so hilarious), the action follows the pattern of the famous original: a complex series of

Download or read book An Absolute Turkey written by George Feydeau and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1994-03-04 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Georges Feydeau, master of farce, displays all his tricks of the trade in this witty, seamless and acutely funny translation. An Absolute Turkey was a West End hit following its London premiere at the Globe Theatre in 1993. “Sharp, natty, decorously indecent dialogue” - Sunday Times

Download or read book Georges Feydeau written by Leonard Cabell Pronko and published by Frederick Ungar. This book was released on 1975 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book From Marriage to Divorce written by George Feydeau and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feydeau's major farces are universally admired, but relatively few people are familiar with his early work. When Feydeau left school in 1879 he began writing monologues for leading actors and actresses to perform in salons and at charity concerts But by 1882 he had progressed to the one-act play, which he continued to write through his career. The most successful were the four published in this volume, written between 1908 and 1911, and which he always wished to see published together, as they are here, under the title From Marriage to Divorce. The plays are more or less based upon the breakdown of his own marriage. This volume includes the plays Better Late, One Month Early, Take Your Medicine Like a Man and Don't Walk About With Nothing On. These translations were commissioned by the BBC.

Download or read book A Flea in Her Ear written by Georges Feydeau and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Georges Feydeau s The Lady from Maxim s written by Gene Feist and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Eug ne Labiche and Georges Feydeau written by Leonard Cabell Pronko and published by New York : Grove Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Love by the Bolt written by Georges Feydeau and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Little Hotel on the Side written by Georges Feydeau and published by London ; Toronto : S. French. This book was released on 1984 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The translator of a popular version of Feydeau's A Flea in Her Ear scored another success with this acclaimed farce at the National Theatre of Great Britain. More slam bang experiences in mistaken identities and sexual peccadillos, this hilarious story begins with M. Pinglet's efforts to have a fling with Mme. Paillardin, who is terminally bored with her husband. The lovers book a room in a very out of the way hotel which quickly becomes a destination for practically everyone they know.Large cast