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Monsieur Chasse !
''Monsieur chasse!'' (Monsieur is hunting!) is a three-act farce by Georges Feydeau, first produced in Paris in 1892. A married man disguises his absences conducting an extramarital affair in Paris as shooting trips in the country, but an evening's chaotic events expose his deception. The play was Feydeau's first success since his first full-length play, ''Tailleur pour dames'', six years earlier. It ran for 144 performances and has been revived frequently in the 20th and 21st centuries. Background and first production In 1886 the 24-year-old Feydeau had a great success with his first full length play, ''Tailleur pour dames'' (Ladies' Tailor), but his next five plays had been failures or very modest successes.Pronko, pp. 1–2 After a period of studying the works of the earlier comic masters of the 19th century he wrote two new plays in 1892: ''Monsieur chasse!'' and ''Champignol malgré lui'' (Champignon despite himself) – the latter in collaboration with Maurice Desvallière ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Feydeau
Georges Alain Thierry Feydeau (21 July 1934 – 14 January 2008) was a French actor, director and writer. He was a grandson of the playwright Georges Feydeau, and appeared in several of his grandfather's works, and directed new productions of two of them. Life and career Feydeau was born in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, on 21 July 1934, son of Michel Feydeau (1900–1961) and his wife Françoise, ''née'' Hoentschel. At the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris he won the first prize for comedy in 1958, after which he joined the company of the Comédie-Française, of which he remained a member until 1983. During his time with the company Feydeau was appointed to the rank of ''Grand Pensionnaire'', but was never made a full '' Sociétaire''. In a stage career lasting nearly fifty years, Feydeau played in a wide range of plays, from French and foreign classics, such as Corneille's ''Le Menteur'', Hugo's ''Ruy Blas'' and Schiller's ''Marie Stuart'' to 20th- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Plays Adapted Into Films
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1892 Plays
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Plays By Georges Feydeau
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Bang Bang! (play)
''Bang Bang!'' is a comedy play by John Cleese. It is an adaptation of the French play ''Monsieur chasse!'' by Georges Feydeau Productions The play made its world premiere at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester from 24 February to 11 March 2017. The American premiere of the play opened at the Shadowland Stages, in Ellenville, New York from 10 August to 9 September 2018. A new production of the play, produced by Dermot McLaughlin, Charles H. Duggan and Brian Zucker, opened at the Northcott Theatre, Exeter before touring the UK from February 2020. Critical reception 2017/2018 Production The reviewer in ''The Daily Telegraph'' wrote: "Cleese seems to have contented himself with stuffing the original with coarse, cheap jokes. When Richard Earl's charmless doctor is rejected by Leontine, he tells her to shove it where the sun don't shine. Sorry to be prudish, but I could have done without such crudities. Characters keep breaking the fourth wall to inform the audience what a nightmare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Jourdan
Louis Jourdan (born Louis Robert Gendre; 19 June 1921 – 14 February 2015) was a French film and television actor. He was known for his suave roles in several Hollywood films, including Alfred Hitchcock's ''The Paradine Case'' (1947), '' Letter from an Unknown Woman'' (1948), '' Gigi'' (1958), '' The Best of Everything'' (1959), '' The V.I.P.s'' (1963) and ''Octopussy'' (1983). He played Dracula in the 1977 BBC television production ''Count Dracula''. Early life Jourdan was born Louis Robert Gendre in Marseille, France, in 1921, one of three sons of Yvonne (née Jourdan) and Henry Gendre, a hotel owner.Louis Jourdan profile FilmReference.com; accessed June 5, 2014. He was educated in France, Turkey, and the UK, and studied acting at the École Dramatique. While there, he began acting on the professional stage, wher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prospect Theatre Company
The Prospect Theatre Company was an English company founded, as Prospect Productions, in 1961. Based at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge from 1964 until 1969, the company, with Toby Robertson as artistic director and Richard Cottrell as associate director, toured both nationally and internationally with a mainly classical repertoire, providing notable appearances of such actors as Ian McKellen and Timothy West. The company became closely associated with the Edinburgh Festival after its first appearance there in 1967. Separating from the Arts Theatre in 1969, the company, renamed The Prospect Theatre Company, survived without a permanent base for the next eight years under the direction of Toby Robertson, mounting productions in which Derek Jacobi and Dorothy Tutin made significant appearances. Eventually the company found a new home at London's Old Vic in 1977: two years later it became the Old Vic Theatre Company. Though noted for its exemplary ensemble playing, the company lost its Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lottie Venne
Lottie Venne (28 May 1852 – 16 July 1928) was a British comedian, actress and singer of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, who enjoyed a theatre career spanning five decades. Venne began her stage career in musical burlesque before moving into farce and comedy. She appeared in several works by each of F. C. Burnand and W. S. Gilbert and was often in plays with Charles Hawtrey later in her career. Early life and career Born as Hannah Charlotte Venne, her first professional appearance came in 1867 as Miss Charbonnel in ''A Dream in Venice'' at the Gallery of Illustration in London, followed by two years touring in the provinces. For part of this time, she joined Captain Disney Roebuck's touring company, where she met her future husband, Walter H. Fisher. In London, in 1870, Venne played Susan Piper in ''A Bull in a China Shop'', a comedy by Charles Mathews at the Haymarket Theatre. At the same theatre, she appeared as Jemima in ''Rural Felicity'' by John Baldwin Buckstone."M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hawtrey (actor, Born 1858)
Sir Charles Henry Hawtrey (21 September 1858 – 30 July 1923) was an English actor, director, producer and manager. He pursued a successful career as an actor-manager, specialising in debonair, often disreputable, parts in popular comedies. He occasionally played in Sheridan and other classics, but was generally associated with new works by writers including Oscar Wilde and Somerset Maugham. Born to a long-established county family, Hawtrey was one of three of his parents' five sons to pursue a theatrical career. Before going on the stage he had considered joining the army, but failed to apply himself to the necessary studies to qualify for a commission. Once established as an actor he quickly took on the additional role of a manager, boosted by an early success with his own adaptation of a German farce presented in London as ''The Private Secretary'', which made his fortune. A lifelong gambler, both with theatrical productions and on horseracing, to which he was addicted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lestocq
William Lestocq (born Lestock Boileau Wooldridge; 1852 – 16 October 1920) was a British theatre manager, playwright, and actor.(20 October 1920)William Lestocq (obituary) ''New York Tribune''(20 October 1920)William Lestocq is Dead ''The Evening World'' He was born in Winchester, Hants, adopting his stage name when he began acting seriously in 1869. He was a member of the Vaudeville Theatre company from 1873 to 1885, where his parts included being in the original cast of ''Our Boys'' (1875).(3 November 1897). A Chat With Mr. W. Lestocq, ''The Sketch'', p. 82 A nephew was Humphrey Lestocq, film star. His authorship credits (often as co-author) include the plays ''A Bad Penny'' (1882), ''The Sultan of Mocha'' (1887), ''Uncles and Aunts'' (1888), ''In Danger'' (1889), ''Jane'' (1890) (with Harry Nicholls), ''The Sportsman'' (1893) (adaptation of ''Monsieur chasse!'' by Georges Feydeau), and ''The Foundling'' (1894) (with E.M. Robson). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Vitaly
Georges Vitaly, real name Vitali Garcouchenko, (15 January 1917 – 2 January 2007), was a 20th-century French actor, theater director and theater manager. The son of immigrants from the Russian revolution, he trained as actor from 1934. In 1947, he won the concours des jeunes compagnies with ''Le Mal court'' by Jacques Audiberti with Suzanne Flon. In 1947 he founded the Théâtre de la Huchette which he directed until 1952. Then, from 1954 to 1970, he was director of the Théâtre La Bruyère, in Paris. From 1970 to 1975, he was director of the Maison de la culture in Nantes. He was married to the comedian Monique Delaroche. Filmography Cinema * 1959: ''La Nuit des espions'' by Robert Hossein * 1960: '' Les Canailles'' by Maurice Labro * 1964: '' L'Enfer'' by Henri-Georges Clouzot (unfinished) Television * 1970: '' La Hobereaute'' (spoken opera by Jacques Audiberti), directed by Georges Vitaly, en différé de l'Hôtel de Sully dans le cadre du Festival du Marais, T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
