Le Singe qui parle, better known in English as The Monkey Talks,[1] is a comedy in three acts by René Fauchois.
[2] Positively received,[1] it was subsequently staged at the Royal Park Theatre in Brussels where a production opened on October 8, 1924.
Her English language version of the play was staged on Broadway at the Sam H. Harris Theatre where it opened on December 28, 1925.
[4] Unger's adaptation of the play had previously been used but in a further modified version by English-born American writer Rowland Leigh who changed portions of it for the London production which preceded the New York staging.
[6] American screenwriter Gordon Rigby adapted Fauchois's story for the silent film, The Monkey Talks.