The Wild Game!

I don’t have artwork yet, so I stole this photo from the 1947 film adaptation and added my info.

The Nutshell

When Leontine, a respectable society lady, discovers her husband, Duchotel, is using his many hunting outings as a cover to chase after other ‘prey’, she vows to take revenge on the philanderer! But while Duchotel is away, his lifelong friend, Moricet, comes calling – and is hunting for Leontine. Traps are set and nearly everyone gets snared in a door-slamming, trouser-dropping, balcony-climbing night of chaos set amidst the stylish apartments of Paris.

The Backstory

Consider The Wild Game as my first COVID-19 quarantine play. When I wasn’t binge watching Dark, Babylon Berlin, or A French Village, I wrote this script. It’s based on the Feydeau play Monsieur Chasse! I’m a sucker for slamming doors and pants dropping, and this play has plenty of both. What was fun about writing it was after I’d written a goodly amount of pages, I’d organize a Zoom reading with friends from around the country. We’d laugh and laugh and commiserate on the state of the world. Soon we started calling ourselves Quarantine Repertory (Or Q Rep for short). We read another new play of mine, several of my old scripts, and I’m currently working on a few new ones for the Rep.

My wonderful friends and Q Rep members.

The script is available for its World Premiere. You know, as soon as theatre comes back.