Every Last Trick review Feydeau's farce gets a rough-and-ready makeover
Tamsin Oglesby reworks a classic farce into a loosely connected sequence of gagsGeorges Feydeau (1862-1921) has been described as "perhaps the most brilliantly adroit of all devisers of bedroom farce". His plays are "masterpieces of theatrical contrivance and elegantly economical style". Typically, they expose the hypocrisies of "respectable" people through a sequence of meticulously plo…