Pig in a poke
By: Georges Feydeau
Contributors: Feydeau, Georges, 1862-1921
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Work titles: Chat en poche
Description: Pacarel made his wealth in the sugar industry and wants to premiere an opera composed by his daughter, who 'rewrote Faust after Gounod'. To fulfil this objective, he asks his friend Dufausset who lives in Bordeaux to engage Dujeton, a well known tenor from the Bordeaux Opera. But instead of Dujeton, it is the son of Dufausset who comes. He is coming to Paris to study law. Pacarel mistakes him for Dujeton and signs a contract with him, leading to a series of misunderstandings. Feydeau's three-act comedy was premiered in September 1892 at the Théâtre Déjazet.
Notes: Previously issued in print: in Plays one. London: Methuen Drama, 2001.

Translated from the French.