FLEA IN HER EAR

This is widely recognised as one of the funniest plays ever written, and features many of the popular star actors associated with Nanzikambe's work.

Sponsored by the French Cultural Centre, Wakutsina Khutu... A Flea in Her Ear opened there on 5th December and also played at The Warehouse Culture Centre in Blantyre.

In A Flea in her Ear, the speed with which the fabric of Feydeau's characters' lives unravel is breathtaking. From one small event (a wife opening her husband's parcel 'by mistake') the whole play expands until you are bewildered at how so many misunderstandings and miscommunications can happen in so short a time.

The music (an essential feature of all our shows) has been specially written and recorded by Blantyre musicians The Kasambwe Brothers (pictured above, in rehearsal).

While remaining faithful to the pace, plotting and delicious madness of the original, the company has adapted Feydeau's classic farce to an African setting. Set in Malawi, the Spanish foreigners of the original become a fiery Nigerian couple Lucy and Abele Nwankwo.

The seedy hotel the characters all find themselves in is The Tasty Honey Hotel, and the proprietor is now Mai Wapindula, a colourful ex-prostitute providing various 'confidential services' for her guests. As she says, many of her guests are married - "but not to each other!"