Lakewood Presents A FLEA IN HER EAR 3/13 - 4/19

From March 13 - April 19, 2009 Lakewood presents the classic French farce A Flea In Her Ear by Georges Feydeau (a sparkling new translation by David Ives) on the Headlee Mainstage at Lakewood Center for the Arts.

Georges Feydeau, the master of French farce, premiered A Flea In Her Ear on March 2nd, 1907 in Paris, where it was promptly acclaimed his greatest work. The hilarious, skillfully constructed plot is a riot of mistaken identity, misunderstandings and mismatched lovers. The term " a flea in her ear" is the French equivalent of the English "a bee in her bonnet." Lakewood's production features a new adaptation by David Ives, author of the hit comedies All in the Timing and Sure Thing.

Directed by Alan Shearman (The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940, Accomplice), A Flea In Her Ear opens Friday, March 13th at Lakewood Theatre Company and continues until April 19, 2009. Performances are Thursdays - Saturdays at 8:00 PM, Sundays at 7:00 PM (March 15, 22, 29 and April 5) and Sunday matinees at 2:00 PM (March 22, 29 and April 19). The theatre is located at Lakewood Center for the Arts, 368 S. State Street in Lake Oswego. Ticket prices are $25 for adults and $23 for students and seniors and are available through the Lakewood Theatre Box Office at (503) 635-3901 or online at www.lakewood-center.org

The Story: Things go awry when Victor Chandebise (Scott Parker), a wealthy insurance company president, becomes impotent, leading his wife, Raymonde (Jocelyn Berado) to assume he's taken a mistress. To test his fidelity, she has her friend Lucienne (Jamie Rea) write a steamy anonymous note to Victor claiming to be infatuated with him and proposing a rendezvous at the infamous Frisky Puss Hotel. Convinced it's all a mistake, Victor sends his friend and colleague Tournel (Todd Hermanson) a notorious womanizer, to keep the appointment. In no time it's a medley of slamming doors, revolving beds and wildly amiss gunshots - all at an uproarious breathless pace!

Others in the cast include Don Burns, John Killeen, Chelsie Kinney, Sean Knight, Ben Plont, Gary Powell, Beth Summers, Todd Tschida, Teresa Renee Lawrence and Darrell Salk.
Stage direction for A Flea In Her Ear is by Alan Shearman, with set design by Chris Whitten, lighting design by Kurt Herman, costume design by Margaret Louise Chapman and hair design by Jane Holmes of See Jane. Stage Manager is Felix Kelsey, assistant stage manager is Joey Cary and the show's producer is Kay Vega.

56 YEARS OF LIVE THEATRE: Founded as a not-for-profit organization in 1952, Lakewood Theatre Company is a semi-professional theatre dedicated to the study and presentation of drama in all its forms; the training and development of actors; and the creation, maintenance and operation of a theatre in which to present plays and other forms of entertainment. Lakewood Theatre Company is the oldest continually operated, not-for-profit theatre company in the Portland metropolitan area. It annually provides more than 700 theatre artists the opportunity to learn and display their craft and annually attracts more than 40,000 people to its shows.

Productions in the 2008-09 Season are underwritten, in part, by

The Regional Arts & Culture Council and Work for Art
The Oregon Arts Commission
The National Endowment for the Arts