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La Belle Époque

29 October 2016

9:00 AM

29 October 2016

9:00 AM

Farce is a difficult theatrical form to write and to stage successfully. Farce operates beyond reality; a farce must establish its own rules, its own heightened reality, so that the audience goes with it from the outset. The undoubted masters have been French, none more so than Feydeau. Born into a literary family in 1862, Georges Feydeau was an embodiment of La Belle Époque.

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