The Game Hunter
From: Thursday, 24th April 2003
To: Saturday, 24 May 2003
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
Moricet desperately wants Leontine. Leontine's husband Duchotel says he is going hunting with Cassagne. Cassagne is on the verge of catching his wife in flagrante delicto. Gontran, Duchotel's nephew, is skipping school to meet his mistress and somehow they all converge in the apartments overseen by the Countess of Northern Latour!
Our Review:
28 April 2003
Artistic director Sam Walters’ current production in the small Orange Tree theatre, Georges Feydeau’s The Game Hunter, could properly be subtitled (to ill-quote Ratigan), ‘French Without Doors’. It is, indeed a doorless French farce.
Utilising radio-style, synchronised sound effects managed by a game ASM off-set, but in sight of the audience, the frenetic door slams, are all mimed by the hard working cast to excellent and amusing effect, thus maximising use of the space. It really does add to the entertainment value of this marvellous piece of theatre.
Farce as we know it, was developed in early 19th century France, and Feydeau wrote more than 40 of them, including Hotel Paradiso and A Flea in Her Ear. His bedroom farces tell of the high times of the low life in Paris's ‘demi-mondaine’, and are noted for their great wit and complex plots, featuring misunderstandings and coincidences, and what one critic dubbed "jack-in-the-box constru...
Creative
Georges Feydeau (Author)
Orange Tree (Producer)
Stephen Joseph Theatre (Producer)
Richard Cottrell (Translation)
Sam Walters (Director)
Pip Leckenby (Design)
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