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English author Ray Cooney's Chat et Souris, the French version of "Caught in the Net" won an award at last night's ceremony for the "Raimu de la Comédie" an annual celebration of the best in French theatre and cinema comedy. Also nominated for best theatre comedy, Chat et Souris won its award for best adaptation by Stewart Vaughan and Jean-Christophe Barc. The play has been running at the 700 seat Theatre de la Michodière in Paris since September 2007, and is due for a cast change in January as the original cast goes out on tour.

Chat et Souris is the sequel to "Stationnement Alterné" presented in May 2008 by the Melbourne French Theatre Inc. The taxi driver with two wives is driven further round the bend when his two teenage children (one by each wife) meet on the internet.

This is the third Ray Cooney play adapted by Vaughan and Barc, the previous two being Impair et Père (It Runs in the Family) and "Stationnement Alterné". They are currently working on an adaptation of Derek Benfield's "Bedside Manners" due to open at the Michodière in the autumn of 2009.

The awards were presided by film director Claude Lelouch. They are named after the cinema and theatre actor Raimu, who Orson Welles did not hesitate to describe as "the greatest actor in the world". Raimu entered into cinema legend with Pagnol's trilogy "Marius, Fanny and César", followed by "La Femme du Boulanger" (The baker's wife). In 1943 Raimu joined the Comédie Française.


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