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THERE'S ONE IN EVERY MARRIAGE by GEORGES FEYDEAU
In the classic bedroom farces of Georges Feydeau, sex is not in the mind, the heart or the groin; it is in the feet. His bourgeois lechers stalk women in the streets, jog from bedroom to bedroom, jump into the wrong beds, kick open the wrong doors, and are finally caught flat-footed in the tangled web of their own deceit. The goal of a Feydeau play is ostensibly the bed, but is actually bedlam.
Feydeau's beds and bedlam are most happily with us again in the 1896...
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