A Flea in Her Ear
From: Saturday, 4th December 2010
To: Saturday, 5 March 2011
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Synopsis
An hilarious farce of situation involving marriage and deception... Raymond suspects her husband, Victor Emmanuel, of infidelity so she and her best friend concoct a plan to trap him at the notorious Hotel Coq D'Or. In true farcical fashion the plan misfires, with hilarious results.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 15 December 2010
There’s nothing inherently funny about erectile dysfunction. Except, of course, in French farce, and Feydeau’s La puce a l’oreille (1907), is the ultimate diagnostic spin-off: a frustrated wife sets a honey-trap in a knocking-shop (Le Coq d’Or, as it happens) and all hell breaks loose.
This is the third time I’ve seen the play in this 1966 translation by John Mortimer on this Old Vic stage, and it’s an undiminished pleasure in Richard Eyre’s production, though not as yet riotously funny; farce is less often a guffaw glut than an anxiety-inducing series of mathematical equations leading towards catastrophe and last-minute resolution.
The insurance manager Chandebise is despatched by his own sex-starved wife on an illicit assignment and becomes embroiled in a hotel door-slamming session with a lookalike drunken hall porter, Poche, his own wife on a mission with his own friend, Tournel, and his wife’s best frien...
Latest User Review
Rob - 30 January 2011:
I was so dissappointed with this play last night.The amazing set was the highlight of the evening.I can't believe I saw the same play as the critics that gave it 4 stars.I love farce but this play was just not funny and some of the actors were miscast.the seat prices at the Old Vic are expensive and I thought this production gave very poor value, other than the performance of Tom Hollander.How sad the wonderful Old Vic presenting such poor material....
Cast
Tom Hollander (Victor)
Lisa Dillon (Raymonde)
Di Botcher
Jonathan Cake
Oliver Cotton
Freddie Fox
Fiona Glascott
Lloyd Hutchinson
John Marquez
Tim McMullan
William Maxwell
Rebecca Night
Maggie Service
Walter Van Dyk
Creative
Georges Feydeau (Author)
American Airlines (Corporate Sponsor)
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Corporate Sponsor)
Old Vic (Producer)
Sonia Friedman Productions (Producer)
Richard Eyre (Director)
Rob Howell (Design)
Sue Blane (Costume)
Mark Henderson (Lighting)
Gregory Clarke (Sound)
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