Exchange Theatre presents

The 3rd Edition of the BASTILLE WEEK

with

The Feydeau Double-Bill:

Madame’s late mother

and A house bath

 

 

"Exchange Theatre has done a service making those plays available in English" Reviewsgate, July 2010

 

For the first time in thirty years, Echange Theatre re-translated and produced a Feydeau double-bill. Short one act plays by Feydeau are rarely seen he is most known for full length plays. Echange Theatre is the only company in London to translate and produce forgotten French plays such as this and bring them to the London stage. They previously premiered the British premiere of THE EXCHANGE by Paul Claudel, at the Hackney Empire, “simplicity, beauty, elegance” (The Paul Claudel review) followed by the British premiere of BAL TRAP by French playwright Xavier Durringer and the unique revival of THE FLIES by Sartre with the rock band A riot in Heaven. www.exchangetheatre.com

 

A House Bath, British Premiere, At night, Madame wants to have a bath, being prepared with much attention by the maid. When Madame changes her mind, the maid decides she might as well have one when suddenly Monsieur comes back...    Madame’s Late Mother, At 4 O’clock in the morning. A row: she wants to sleep, he comes back from a party. Suddenly the doorbell rings...

Two classics of French comedy based on the simplest misunderstanding, in a translation by David Furlong and Fanny Dulin from Echange Theatre. Directed by Samuel Miller (director winner of The Sitcom Trials 2009, assistant director on Fucking Men at The Old Red Lion) and Gael Colin (The Maids).

With Fanny Dulin, Anna Ruben, David Furlong and Niall Costigan.

 

The Genius of French comedy brought back to the London Stage. Georges Feydeau is an illegitimate son of Napoléon III, very young, he neglected school to make théâtre. Inspired by Maxim’s, Cancan, la belle époque, he wrote some vaudeville masterpiece such as A Flea in Her Ear and Sauce for the Goose mocking the bourgeoisie. Georges Feydeau, made France laugh through his vaudevillian farces and, in the process, dominated the genre. Some have seen in Feydeau a precursor of Dadaism, surrealism, and the absurd. In 1941, Madame’s Late Mother was his first play to enter the “repertoire” of the Comédie-Française, soon to be followed by some of his other plays, thus establishing him as a modern “classic.” In the 60’s, Feydeau was brought to the London stage but is rarely performed since.

 

The Brockley Jack Theatre

410 Brockley Road, Brockley, London SE4 2DH

 

 13^th, 14^th, 15^th, 16^th, 17^th of July, 7.30 pm - £11 or £9 concs

 

Ticket booking 08448 472 264 or www.brockleyjack.co.uk