Once Bitten " review
Orange Tree, RichmondStudents of French farce can have a field day with this one. Written in 1875 by Alfred Hennequin and Alfred Delacour, and here niftily translated by Reggie Oliver, it provides the prototype for later, greater Georges Feydeau. 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 …