UC Berkeley Presents Georges Feydeau's SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE

UC Berkeley's Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies (TDPS) continues its 2008-09 Main Stage season with Georges Feydeau's Sauce for the Goose (Le Dindon), directed by Christopher Herold. The period production features scenic design by Giulio Perrone, costume design by Wendy Sparks, lighting design by David K.H. Elliott, and a cast of student actors from UC Berkeley. Sauce for the Goose will be performed in English (translation by Kenneth McLeish), with weekend performances from Friday, March 6 through Sunday, March 15 at the Zellerbach Playhouse on the UC Berkeley campus.

In Sauce for the Goose (Le Dindon), Georges Feydeau takes us to the heights of farcical frivolity as philandering Parisians struggle to conceal their indiscretions from their spouses. Slamming doors, bungled love affairs, vaudevillian antics, and barbed satire punctuate this outrageous comedy about love, lust, and marriage. Le Dindon premiered in 1896 at Le Palais-Royal in Paris. It is considered one of Feydeau's major works.

French playwright Georges Feydeau (1862-1921) is regarded as one of great French playwrights of "La Belle Epoque" and the greatest of farce-writers. Born in Paris in 1862, the son of novelist Ernest-Aimé Feydeau, he was attracted very early both by acting and writing for the theater. He wrote sixty plays, including his most recognized works: Une puce à l'oreille (A Flea in Her Ear, 1907), La Dame de Chez Maxim (The Girl from Maxim's, 1899), and Le Dindon (Sauce for the Goose, 1896). His plays are seen today as precursors to Surrealist and Dada theater, and the Theatre of the Absurd. They have been continuously revived and are frequently performed.

Director Christopher Herold teaches acting and directing for TDPS. His directing credits with TDPS include Suburban Motel, Three Sisters, Escape From Happiness, Orestes, Pterodactyls, Good, Noises Off, The Crucible, My Uncle Sam, and Funeral Games. Herold is also a member of the studio faculty at American Conservatory Theater where he teaches Scene Study, Shakespeare, and Master Acting Classes in the Summer Training Congress. At A.C.T., he has directed studio productions of Escape From Happiness, Galileo, and The Kentucky Cycle Part II. Herold has also taught acting at Stanford University and Berkeley Repertory School of Theatre. Former Artistic Director and a founding member of Jawbone Theatre Ensemble, his work with that company includes direction of the San Francisco premiere of Manfred Karge's Conquest of the South Pole and Samuel Beckett's Play for the Bay Area Intimate Theatre Festival. In the Bay Area, Herold has appeared in roles at Aurora Theatre, Central Works, Theatre Rhinoceros, Victoria Theatre, Yerba Buena Gardens, and with Shotgun Players. Herold holds a doctorate in Dramatic Art (Director/Scholar) from UC Berkeley.

Tickets and Information:
Sauce for the Goose opens on Friday, March 6 at the Zellerbach Playhouse on the UC Berkeley campus (at Spieker Plaza across from the Haas Pavilion) and runs weekends through Sunday, March 15. Performance dates/times are as follows:
March 6 (8pm), March 7 (8pm), March 8 (2pm), March 13 (8pm), March 14 (8pm), March 15 (2pm)
$15 - General Admission
$10 - Students, Seniors, UC Faculty & Staff
Purchase tickets for Sauce for the Goose online at: tdps.berkeley.edu
Tickets can be purchased by phone (510-642-8827) or in-person at the Zellerbach Playhouse box office on Fridays from 1pm to 4pm. The box office also opens one hour prior to each performance for will call and ticket sales for that day's performance.