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A Flea In Her Ear

1976
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About A Flea In Her Ear

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A Flea in Her Ear (French: La Puce à l'oreille) is a play by Georges Feydeau written in 1907, at the height of the Belle Époque. The author called it a vaudeville, but in Anglophone countries, where it is the most popular of Feydeau's plays, it is usually described as a farce.

The plot hinges on the central characters having a double: a middle class businessman is indistinguishable from the hall porter of a shady hotel, and the two are persistently mistaken for each other, to the bafflement of both.

10 - 20 March, 1976

  • Victoria Theatre, Sovereign Hill

  • Genre: Comedy

  • Playwright: Georges Feydeau

  • Director: Jenny Strickland

Cast

GEOFF TUNBRIDGE

(Dr. Finache)

THELMA WALKER

(Antoinette Plucheux)

GORDON HENDERSON

(Etienne Plucheux)

MURRAY THOMAS

(Camille Chandebise)

VAL SARAH

(Lucienne Homenides de Histangua)

VIRGINIA RONALDSON

(Raymonde Chandebise)

PHIL HOBSON

(Victor Emmanuel Chandebise/Poche)

GEOFF NOTT

(Romain Tournel)

DAVID LEACH

(Carlos Homenides de Histangua)

JENNY COCHRANE

(Eugenie)

STUART MAIDEN

(Augustine Feraillon)

MARJ FORD

(Olympe)

PETER DALE

(Baptistin)

ARTHUR SCUFFINS

(Herr Schwarz)

Anne Farrow, Jim Allen

Guests at the Hotel Coq D'Or

  • Producer (Director)

    Jenny Strickland

  • Set design

    Laurie Lane

  • Costumes

    Gene Kellock

  • Costume makers

    Jean Wardlaw, Paula Freeman, Kath Ryan, Gene Kellock

  • Hair

    Lucy Newton, June Dodgshun & staff

  • Lighting design

    Geoff Simmonds

  • Lighting assistants

    Albert Dulfer and Frank Russell

  • Head mechanist

    Mike Parkinson

  • Mechanist assistants

    Fan Chapman, Jim Allen, Glen Foster, Roy Walker and Harry Yates

  • Stage Manager

    Carmel Allen

  • Production assistants

    Anne Farrow, Maureen Scarff, Brenda Griffin, Judith Scott, Carmel Allen

  • Set painter

    Fran Cockerell

Program