With seven weeks of preparation under their frilly dresses and 19^th century attire, the cast of ‘A Flea in her Ear’ prepares to take the stage at the Reber Center on Mar. 10-12 at 7p.m. each night. Faculty member Ann Dudek enters her 22^nd year of directing plays at LT and has assistant directors Anastar Alvarez ’16 and Emily Rosenberg ’16 at her side.

Based on a French farce originally by Georges Feydeau, the play is a reformatted version by David Ives that was preformed in 2006 at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

“I saw it ten years ago [at the Shakespeare Theater] and always thought it would be a good opportunity for kids because it has a lot of over-the-top characters and fast-paced, door-slamming comedy,” Dudek said. “It’s good for student actors to be exposed to a variety of shows.”

 The plot of the show consists of a myriad of characters with different backgrounds coincidentally meeting at a hotel with an appropriate amount of drama insuring. A main thematic message is distrust in one’s spouse, and that leads to a lot of the slapstick humor, Dudek said.

 “It isn’t a very child-friendly show,” lead actor Nick Hojnar ’16 said. “But it does have a lot of fast paced engaging scenes that are so well put together, you’re not likely to fall asleep.”

 Another facet of the show is the amount of accents the cast has to master. Some characters have French accents, some British and others Spanish. Since another theme of the show is miscommunication, one character even has the disability of not being able to pronounce his consonants, Dudek said.

 “We have a great group of actors who have come a long way with their lines and the set,” Dudek said. “Especially with being daring enough to go over the top with this challenging piece.”

 Hojnar expects engagement from the audience and hilarity to be recepted well, especially from the comedic tension of him acting as both the director of the company, Victor Chandebise, and as the bellboy, Poche.

 Tickets will be available at the box office on all nights, Mar. 10-12. They are $10 for adults, $5 for children/senior citizens and free for students with their student ID’s.