A Flea in Her Ear

Written in 1907, Georges Feydeau’s classic French farce, A Flea in Her Ear, begins in an upscale turn-of-the-century French home, where a suspicious wife with way too much time on her hands suspects infidelity and concocts a plot to catch her suddenly inattentive husband in the act. She and her best friend Lucienne write an anonymous letter to lure him to a hotel and catch him red-handed. The letter doesn’t find its intended target, though. It eventually falls into the hands of Lucienne’s hot-tempered husband. Soon all the members of the household – including secretary, valet, maid, lovers, and family doctor – converge, and insanity erupts.