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  • The fire alarm interrupting Don's and Sal's trysts in the hotel, Pete and Ken in the elevator, each thinking the other is congratulating him on the promotion, Sally Draper finding the stewardess's wings in Don's pocket and asking if he'd brought them back for her --- these were scenes worthy of Feydeau, Wilde, and Shaw.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • The fire alarm interrupting Don's and Sal's trysts in the hotel, Pete and Ken in the elevator, each thinking the other is congratulating him on the promotion, Sally Draper finding the stewardess's wings in Don's pocket and asking if he'd brought them back for her --- these were scenes worthy of Feydeau, Wilde, and Shaw.

    All the mad men and all the mad women can't tell a joke to save their lives 2009

  • Hang a right on the Galerie des Variétés to the Galerie Feydeau (the corridors have names, like streets) and you uncover shadowy, mysterious venues.

    Paris Under Glass 2010

  • Feydeau could never have scripted better some of the farcical situations that have happened.

    Batsmen must stand alone as another quirk of the game does a runner | Mike Selvey 2011

  • Lend Me A Tenor is a perfect classic farce in the fine old tradition of Feydeau, complete with slamming doors, girls hiding in closets and bathrooms, hi-jinx, over-complicated intrigues, double entendres, and mistaken identities.

    Lend Me A Tenor deliasherman 2010

  • Feydeau could never have scripted better some of the farcical situations that have happened.

    Batsmen must stand alone as another quirk of the game does a runner | Mike Selvey 2011

  • The 1797 premiere of Médée Medea at the Parisian Théâtre Feydeau had an eerie resonance with the political climate outside its walls.

    Rodney Punt: Cherubini's Medea to Launch Long Beach Opera's New Season Rodney Punt 2011

  • You have the same bourgeois framework, the same convergence of characters on a risque rendevous and even a running gag about a speech defect that Feydeau shamelessly nicked for A Flea in Her Ear.

    Once Bitten – review 2011

  • Hang a right on the Galerie des Variétés to the Galerie Feydeau (the corridors have names, like streets) and you uncover shadowy, mysterious venues.

    Paris Under Glass 2010

  • Lend Me A Tenor is a perfect classic farce in the fine old tradition of Feydeau, complete with slamming doors, girls hiding in closets and bathrooms, hi-jinx, over-complicated intrigues, double entendres, and mistaken identities.

    Lend Me A Tenor deliasherman 2010

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