A Flea in Her Ear
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.
| A Flea in Her Ear | |
|---|---|
Alexandre Germain as Poche, 1907 | |
| Written by | Georges Feydeau |
| Date premiered | 1907 |
| Original language | French |
| Setting | Paris |
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.
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