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La Dame de chez Maxim (The Girl from Maxim's) is a French vaudeville farce written by Georges Feydeau in 1899. The narrative follows Dr. Petypon, a respectable provincial medical student, who wakes up with a showgirl from the Maxim's restaurant after a night in Paris. The situation escalates into ch...

Un fil à la patte is a French vaudeville farce written by Georges Feydeau in 1894. The plot follows Bois d'Enghien, a man attempting to sever his relationship with his possessive mistress, Lucette, so he can safely marry a wealthy heiress. The narrative relies on the rapid accumulation of coincidenc...

L'Hôtel du libre échange is a French vaudeville farce written by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallières in 1894. The plot is set in a Parisian hotel where multiple couples attempt to conduct secret, illicit rendezvous simultaneously. The structure relies on the physical movement of characters betw...

Occupe-toi d'Amélie is a French vaudeville farce written by Georges Feydeau in 1908. The plot begins when Marcel requests his friend Étienne to serve as a temporary husband for his mistress, Amélie, a cafe-concert singer, while Marcel is called away for military service. What is intended as a fake m...

Le Dindon (The Turkey, also translated as Sauce for the Goose) is a three-act farce by Georges Feydeau that premiered at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris in 1896. The play follows multiple characters caught in escalating schemes of marital infidelity, with plots involving mistaken identities, di...

*Monsieur Chasse!* is a French vaudeville farce by Georges Feydeau, first performed in 1892 at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris. The plot centers on a husband who uses a hunting trip as a pretext for an extramarital affair while his wife pursues a liaison of her own, leading to overlapping rende...

"Le Système Ribadier" is a French stage play classified as a vaudeville farce, co-written by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Hennequin in 1892. The plot centers on a husband, Ribadier, who regularly uses hypnosis to manage his wife and conceal his infidelities. The narrative escalates into complex, chao...

On purge Bébé is a one-act farce written by the French playwright Georges Feydeau and first performed in 1910 at the Théâtre des Nouveautés in Paris. The play centers on Follavoine, a porcelain manufacturer trying to secure a government contract, while his wife Chouilloux insists on administering an...

"Feu la mère de Madame" is a one-act farce by the French playwright Georges Feydeau, first staged in 1908. The plot revolves around a husband's increasingly frantic and farcical attempts to wake his heavily sedated wife to inform her of her mother's passing. Feydeau uses the restricted setting and r...

Chat en poche (English: 'Pig in a Poke') is a one-act farce by the French playwright Georges Feydeau, first performed in 1888. The title refers to the French idiom for purchasing something without inspecting it first. Like Feydeau's other works, the play relies on rapid dialogue, mistaken identity,...

Tailleur pour dames is a one-act French vaudeville farce written by Georges Feydeau, premiering in 1886. The plot is driven by classic farcical mechanics, beginning when a doctor makes a secret detour to his wife's fashionable dressmaker, leading to a cascade of hidden identities and comic misinterp...

"La Main passe" is a one-act French farce by Georges Feydeau, first performed in 1904, that exemplifies the playwright's mastery of the bedroom farce genre and his characteristic use of rapidly escalating complications. The plot centers on a husband whose attempt to confront his wife's lover sets of...

"Mais n'te promène donc pas toute nue!" is a one-act French farce by Georges Feydeau, first performed in 1911, that uses domestic disorder to satirize bourgeois propriety. The plot involves a woman whose habit of undressing at home scandalizes household visitors and threatens her husband's standing...

'Léonie est en avance' is a one-act French vaudeville farce written by Georges Feydeau in 1911. The plot centers on a bourgeois couple who frantically mismanage their preparations for what they mistakenly believe is an imminent premature birth. Feydeau masterfully escalates the comedic chaos by intr...

One-act vaudeville by Georges Feydeau (1897), a comic farce in which a lazy young master hypnotizes his manservant to avoid chores, with uncontrollable and absurd consequences.

French vaudeville by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Hennequin (1890), in which a man's desperate concealment of a secret first marriage from his new bride generates mounting comic chaos.

Les Fiancés de Loches is an 1888 French vaudeville in one act by Georges Feydeau. The plot follows two provincial suitors who travel to Paris to reunite with their fiancées, only to be mistakenly identified as dangerous fugitives. It is characteristic of Feydeau's early works, relying heavily on sit...

Par la fenêtre is an early one-act vaudeville play written by French playwright Georges Feydeau in 1882. It is a domestic farce centered around a married couple whose argument over a suspected infidelity escalates into absurd situations outside their ground-floor window. Feydeau utilizes the physica...