it kept the house in a continual roar, especially during the second act, which is indescribably droll". Les Annales du théâtre et de la musique called the piece "a joyous farce" and praised Feydeau's comic invention. When the play has been revived in more recent times it has had favourable views. Reviewing the 1959 production by the Comédie-Française, Philip Hope-Wallace called it "the apogee of bedroom farce of its kind, and a pure delight" and rated the frenetic middle act superior even to the funniest scenes in Occupe-toi d'Amélie!. When the production was seen in New York two years later, John Chapman of The Daily News called the play "a masterpiece of farce" and wished that every director in the US could see the production. The director Peter Hall observed in 1994, "Le Dindon ... is the most elegantly complex of his plays. By the end of each act, every character is spinning dizzily in a surreal climax of complications. … There is no one funnier than Feydeau in European drama, but there is equally no one who makes us look so unblinkingly at our basic selves." Revivals and adaptations The play was revived in Paris in 1912, at the Théâtre du Vaudeville, where it ran for 98 performances. In 1951 the Comédie-Française took the piece into its repertoire, and revived the production 16 times over the next 20 years, with the central role of Pontagnac played by Jacques Charon, Jean Piat, Jean-Paul Roussillon and in some later runs, the author's grandson, Alain Feydeau. Translations and adaptations in English have been given various titles, including There's One in Every Marriage, 1970; Sauce for the Goose, 1974; Paying the Piper, 1975; Ruling the Roost, 1980; and An Absolute Turkey, 1994. The off-Broadway Pearl Theatre in New York staged the play in 2016 under the title The Dingdong. A 1951 film with the same title was made by the director Claude Barma, with Charon as Pontagnac. Jalil Lespert made in 2019. References and sources References Sources (Online – via BnF Gallica) 1908 plays Plays by Georges Feydeau Comedy plays Paris in fiction