A fast and furious farce from the pen of Georges Feydeau (France’s most frequently performed playwright) mixes romantic double-crossing in the circles of Parisian high society.

Based on Feydeau’s first successful farce, Fly in the Ointment it is adapted by Rosalinde Deville and directed by her husband, Michel Deville. .

Boasting the ravishing Emmanuelle Beart and the meticulous Charles Berling Deville gives Beart the chance to camp it up as Lucette, a beautiful, lusty chanteuse whose misfortune is to be in love with a cad, Edouard de Bois-d'Enghien (Berling). He desires her but, unbeknownst to Lucette, has pledged to marry another woman for money