Feydeau: Three Farces e-bog

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...