(LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ) -- Rider Theatre presents Georges Feydeau’s comedy, A Flea in Her Ear, in the Theater in the Bart Luedeke Center on the campus of Rider University in Lawrenceville from April 4 through April 8. Part bedroom farce, part drawing room farce — “A Flea in Her Ear” is full of suspicion, mischief, nonstop amorous chaos, mistaken identities, slamming doors and chases that will unapologetically hoist you onto tenterhooks. This hilarious play once delighted all of Paris and solidified a genre that would become a comic forerunner of the Absurdist theatre.
“This is historically one of the theater’s great farces,” Gill says. “Feydeau wrote over 70 plays, with around 26 commercial hits. This was one of his biggest successes. It truly set the stage for a lot of comedies that followed it.”
Carter Gill, comedic performer, director and teacher, is currently on faculty at NYU-Tisch School of the Arts, Pace University, Rider University and the Studio/New York and served as provisional faculty under the auspices of Christopher Bayes at Yale School of Drama and the Juilliard School. He is an Edith Wharton award recipient, and he trained as apprentice to Christopher Bayes for many years, becoming one of a handful of teachers Bayes has mentored. He received his M.F.A. in acting from the Yale School of Drama, his B.F.A. in directing from Southern Methodist University, and Shakespeare training from the British American drama academy.
A preview performance will be held Wednesday, April 4 at 7:30pm, and performances will be Thursday, April 5 at 7:30pm; Friday, April 6 at 7:30pm; Saturday, April 7 at 2:00pm and 7:30pm; and Sunday, April 8 at 2:00pm. The production, directed by Carter Gill, will be performed by Rider University students.
Rider University’s Theatre program has a rich tradition of preparing students for successful careers in all aspects of the theatre. Graduates of the program are working with national theatre companies, in film and on television. Campus productions have earned critical praise for more than 50 years and offer the community the opportunity to see aspiring actors in the early stages of their careers.
Tickets for “A Flea in Her Ear” are $20 for adults and $10 for students and seniors. They can be purchased at the door, through the box office at 609-896-7775 or online at www.rider.edu/arts. General admission preview tickets are $9 and are only available at the door. For more information, visit rider.edu/arts. Rider University is located at 2038 Lawrenceville Road in Lawrenceville, N.J.
