In "Feydeau-Si-Deau," co-adapters Paxton Whitehead and Susan Grossman don't do much to update the source, a Georges Feydeau sex farce originally entitled "Chemin de Fer," after the complicated card game of the same name.

The cards in play here include Francine, an unfaithful wife; her stolid but waspish husband; her hair-trigger lover, Fedot (pronounced like the playwright); the lover's innocent young wife; a drunken neighbor; and, in typical Feydeau fashion, a young man with a speech impediment. Jeremy Wechsler's astute staging for Theater Wit keeps the action in the late-19th Century, upper-middle-class Parisian world, and the set by Hang Le and Courtney O'Neill has the requisite doors for breathless slam-bang entrances and exits (even if a knob did fall off on opening night). Kevin Theis's swaggering arrogance and eventual humiliation as Fedot bring a certain disgraced New York governor to mind, and there are sterling turns by several supporting players, especially Ron Keaton as the bumbling drunkard and Matt Engle as a young swain tongue-tied in love.

But if one tends not to like farce on general principle, there isn't much in this show that would change that verdict. Skillfully played, elegantly costumed by Laura B. Kollar, and with a few sly contemporary touches, "Feydeau-Si-Deau" is undeniably delightful, but the delights tend to be short-lived.