title: Funny Business: An Introduction to Comedy With Royalty-Free Plays and Sketches
author:  Marsh Cassady 
description: <b>Marsh Cassady</b> has written more than forty books including novels, short story and drama collections, haiku, biography, and books on theatre and storytelling. His audio and stage plays have been widely performed (including off-Broadway), and he has written and recorded a three-set audio tape on storytelling.<br /><br /><br /><br />A former actor/director and university professor with a Ph.D. degree in theatre, Cassady has worked with more than a hundred productions. Since 1981, he has conducted an all-genre writing workshop in San Diego and has taught various creative writing classes at UCSD and elsewhere. While teaching at Montclair State in the 1970s, he started a program of workshops, classes and special projects in playwriting. His own writing has won numerous regional and national awards.
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  # NIGHT SESSION (Seance de Nuit)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### A One Act Comedy By Georges Feydeau
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
      
  
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  Translated and Adapted by
  
  
  Frank J. Morlock
  
  
  C 1994
  
  
  
  
  
  Characters:
  
  
  Fauconnet
  
  
  Gentillac
  
  
  Rigolin
  
  
  Joseph
  
  
  The Errand Boy
  
  
  Artemise
  
  
  Clarisse
  
  
  Emilie
  
  
  Bamboche
  
  
  
  
  
  A special room in the Cafe Anglai