Columbia Stages Presents 'A Flea In Her Ear' Oct.17-20

Columbia Stages presents A Flea In Her Ear by Georges Feydeau, translated by Heather Denyer and Nadia Foskolou, directed by Nadia Foskolou.  Performances are October 17 – 19 at 8PM and October 20 at 2PM & 8PM.

The Riverside Theatre is located at 91 Claremont Avenue (between 120th and 122nd Streets). Tickets are $15 General Admission; $5 Seniors.  Free with Columbia University ID or other valid student ID.

"Paris, 1907: A husband's sexual dysfunction triggers a cinematically orchestrated chain reaction of misunderstandings. As the bourgeois salon struggles to escape deconstruction, Feydeau's genius captures the transition from the Belle Époque to modern times.  The period's fascination with technology serves as an absurdist device as the play exalts theatricality and celebrates the genre of farce," explain press notes.

The ensemble cast includes:  Julianna Bloodgood, Lindsey Carr, Carla Corvo, Andrew Dahl, Daniel Damiano, Billy Fenderson, James E. Forshaw, Babis Gousias, Miguel Govea, Gordon Gray, Scott Matthew Harris, Tania Molina, Samuel Perwin, and Kalliopi Tzermani.

In addition to Foskolou, the creative team includes Oran Bumroongchart (set design), Marina Reti (costume design), Derek Wright (lighting design), Erato Kremmyda (sound design), Erin Malley (movement design), and Mirabelle Ordinaire and Nathan Wright (dramaturgy and additional translations).

Nadia Foskolou was born and raised in Athens, Greece, where she completed her BA in Dramaturgy at Athens University (1997). She also holds an MA in Dramaturgy from Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle University (1999) and an Acting Diploma from the Paris School "Florent" (1999). In 2004 she created the experimental group "Cinemato-theatron" [Movie-theater], whose mission is to combine theatre with the action of screening.  Directing credits include: Jean-Luc Lagarce's Journey to the Netherlands (translated from French into Greek), Alain De Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life (Greek National Theatre's Experimental Stage), an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's The Best Intentions, Vaclav Havel's Protest, Moscow Express (adapted from Chekhov's Three Sisters), and Nathan Wright's Naked Fish and Mission.

Columbia Stages is the producing arm of the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies of Columbia University's School of the Arts.  Columbia Stages presents a season of graduate actor and director productions as well as an annual festival of new plays by emerging playwrights.  The theatre division offers M.F.A. degrees in acting, directing, playwriting, dramaturgy/script development, stage management, and theatre management and producing.  The goal of the division is to provide each student with the foundation for a career in professional theatre as well as the tools to embrace an ever-changing theatrical landscape and shape the future of the theatre.