A Flea in Her Ear – ACT Brighton

There’s an enduring quality in George Feydeau’s 1907 farce that John Mortimer updated brilliantly in 1966. TOM’s publicity sneakily cites Richard Eyre’s successful 2010 Old Vic revival on its poster for this ACT production. The Year Two Diploma students are helped to shine by the veterans in the cast, whose assured performances and dogged professionalism keep the farce rolling. Essentially, all the words got across, or at least as many as we were meant to hear, so Feydeau and Mortimer were well served but it is a long 3-acter and would have benefited greatly if superfluous business had been pruned.

The Old Market, 3 April 2018
Rating:
Andrew Connal