92. Jealousy” (JALOUSE)

Comedy in three acts by Alexandre Bisson and Adolphe Leclerq
Performance at the Residenz-Theater, Berlin

The comedy "Jealousy" by A. Bisson and Leclerg could perhaps keep us laughing heartily for two hours if the means by which a young woman's jealousy, bordering on madness, is to be cured were not too annoying. Mrs. Moreuil thinks all men are adulterers. Including hers, of course. She has never seen anything to justify the slightest suspicion. But precisely because she sees and hears nothing that gives her reason to accuse the man, she believes him to be a secret criminal. A friend of the house wants to cure her. The old parents have to become comedians for this purpose. They have to show the jealous daughter a married couple who poison their existence through jealousy. This theater in the theater reduces the value of the harmless hoax. Such a remedy is not only a sin against all sense of reality, but a rather bad bad taste. It also makes the performance of the play almost impossible. For actors who are capable of portraying non-actors performing a comedy will be few and far between.