After this horrible winter we need to get out and have a few laughs. You’ll get more than a few at Trinity’s funny, flashy Feydeau farce, “A Flea in Her Ear.”

We have seen the zany play before, but once again Trinity adds their magic touch to the production, milking every line and movement to its fullest and beyond.

A good farce needs doors to run in and out of, and set designer Patrick Lynch has provided three of them in the first and third acts and 10 in the second act.

The large cast is made up of Trinity veterans, Brown/Trinity MFA students and two familiar Gamm actors. Director Tyler Dobrowsky, who has also guest directed at Gamm, brings Steve Kidd to the Trinity stage for the first time, playing a sex-crazed German soldier. He is hilarious, as are all the wild and crazy cast members. Richard Donelly, who has played key roles at both Gamm and Trinity, hams it up as Dr. Finache.

The action takes place in Paris in 1900. I’m not going to give away the plot. If you have seen the play, you know what’s coming. If you have not, it won’t take you long to figure it out.

There are cheating wives and husbands, lecherous friends, a man with a speech impediment (Stephen Thorne), a hotel butler who looks just like the cheating husband (Fred Sullivan Jr.), a mad Spaniard (Timothy Crowe), a doting lecher (Mauro Hantman) and a host of others, each spouting double entendres and suggestive gestures and movements.

The play was written back when an R rating meant “risqué.” It also allows serious actors to let down their hair and have fun.

While this is an ensemble piece, I have to single out the comic timing and talents of Fred Sullivan Jr. and Stephen Thorne.

Mistaken identities and infidelities are everywhere. The first act hilariously sets the scene and gives us a taste of the crazy actors.

Act 2 opens with Joe Wilson Jr. as the hotel manager singing “Something Stupid,” a sign of things to come. If you analyze the outrageous action, you will see that it is kind of stupid. But you will be laughing so hard you won’t have time for an analytical look at the play. This ain’t Shakespeare, folks.

Act 2 takes us to a seedy hotel where characters run in and out of doors at Olympic speed. Lynch’s set features a revolving room where Barbara Meek makes a few unexpected appearances.

While Feydeau has written the funnier lines for the male actors, Curt Columbus’ translation and the actors’ interpretation have allowed Angela Brazil, Phyllis Kay and Rachel Warren to have their fun, hamming it up as much as the men.

Dobrosky adds a few more gimmicks, including slo-mo action and an old time silent movie.

The play runs rather long with two intermissions, but that’s the way they were written back then. Just relax, have a glass of wine, sit back and laugh to your heart’s content.

“A Flea in her Ear” is at Trinity’s Dowling Theatre (downstairs-up close and personal) through April 26. For reservations call 351-4242.