Madame Sans Jane

In the height of the 1920s slapstick era, Madame Sans Jane presents a frantic, gender-bending farce that weaponizes the 'disapproving father' trope. When a young suitor is barred from marrying his beloved, the girl's father attempts to sever the connection by exiling her to the sea under the watchful eye of a female chaperone. In a move of desperate, high-stakes improvisation, the boyfriend adopts a feminine guise to secure the very position intended to keep him away. What follows is a claustrophobic comedy of errors set against the backdrop of a passenger ship, where the boundaries of identity are tested by the proximity of an unsuspecting father and a crew of eccentric characters. It is a story of domestic rebellion executed through the medium of lace, wigs, and narrow hallways.