Le Canard à l'orange (The Secretary Bird) is a comic play in four parts by William Douglas-Home (1967), adapted for French audiences by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon.
Summary: Hugh Preston, star presenter on the BBC, spends his life between his wife Liz and his many mistresses. One Friday evening, after a game of chess, Hugh tells his wife that he knows she has a lover. Caught off guard, she confesses to Hugh that she is having an affair with a stockbroker called John Brownlow, and that she plans to leave with him the following Sunday morning for Florence and Venice without telling him.
This play was broadcast on French television in 1979, directed by André Frédérick. It was a huge success in boulevard theatre, and was revived as part of the Charles Baret Tours in early 1974, as well as by a number of great actors, including Jean Poiret in 1979 and Michel Roux in 1993.
The young members of the association will perform a play as the opening act.
Additional screenings in St Julien de Civry on 8 and 9 February, in aid of three charities, with separate ticket sales for these dates.
Tickets must be purchased to guarantee seats for 25 and 26 January! Reservations are not possible.