One can envision

seedy misdoings in Paris.

It is the city

of love and lust and people can easily get caught up in the passion of

such a world class city. Such is the case of Mssr. Pinglet, a browbeaten

husband who urges his pretty neighbor to seek "revenge" on her

neglectful husband by going to the Free Trade Hotel with him. As he points

out, the place is so awful that no one will know they are there.

That is the

just the beginning of Newnan Community Theatre's presentation of "A

Little Hotel On The Side," by Georges Feydeau, starting next Friday.

Pinglet is,

of course, wrong in his assumption. As the evening progresses, everyone

the illicit couple knows shows up at the hotel and the two escape detection

only by the skin of their teeth.

The play is

a pure farce. Feydeau once formulated a rule for farces, stating that

whenever you have two characters who under no circumstances should meet,

you must bring them together as soon as possible. A more recent example

of this rule is the film "Fargo." Terrible things happen to

the characters but it is of their own making.

"This

is one of the funniest plays ever written," said NCTC artistic director

Dale Lyles, who is directing this play as his 25th anniversary production.

In 1975, it was the first play he directed, in a translation entitle "Hotel

Paradiso." "I am glad to be returning to it as a way of celebrating

the 25 wonderful years I've had in theater in Newnan," he said.

Newnan Community

Theatre Company is making use of its new larger space staging the play.

The play requires two sets. Pinglet's apartment in acts I and II and the

disreputable Free Trade Hotel in act II, replete with slamming doors and

stairways.

Performances

are Oct. 13 - 28, at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 2:30 p.m. Sundays.

Tickets are $10 for general admission and $8 for seniors and students.

For reservations, call 770-683-NCTC. For information on the theater, visit

www.newnantheatre.com .

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