| 单词 | farce |
| 例句 | We presented The Blockade of Boston, Major-General Burgoyne’s farce upon rebel hypocrisy, as one of the most celebrated events of our hivernal concert series. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Siobhan was sure everyone could see the farce this exhibition had become. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Because if that’s all they are—if there are no rules governing our lives—then our entire existence is a meaningless farce. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “My cousin cuts to the bone, as ever. Do you have any more to say to me, Onion Knight, or can we put an end to this mummer’s farce? I grow weary of your face.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Inside the theater, rehearsals are under way for the final performance of the farce Our American Cousin. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “This has gone far enough. You’re going to pay for this farce.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z It distances the entire thing, reduces it to a farce or prank, in which I have no involvement aside from mockery. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I understand that the sale is going lousy. Nobody wants to sell the chocolates in the first place and it’s turned into a kind of farce in some classes.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When she got home that night, Anthony wrote in her journal, “The greatest judicial outrage history ever recorded! We were convicted before we had a hearing and the trial was a mere farce.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z "Then she still plans to go through with this mummer's farce?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When Stanton shared the Declaration of Sentiments with her husband, Henry, he told her that demanding suffrage would make the entire convention a “farce.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In their first days of marriage, the newlyweds are happy as can be, even though Jo has no idea how to keep house—“Its an absolute farce,” she writes her sister Mien. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z "The farce of the cold war and the absurd war machine it spawned," he said, "was an ever-growing pathetic joke to me." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “I am determined to be a silent spectator of the silly and wicked game,” Adams explained to Abigail, “and to enjoy it as a comedy, a farce, or as a gymnastic exhibition at Sadler’s Wells.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z So why not send the northmen forth to battle Stannis before the farce unraveled? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was only a matter of time before this happy-family farce would be over. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “With Cersei? More fool you. All my sister requires is my head, and you have a fine sharp sword. Why not end this farce now and spare us both?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was a relief when the farce of the meal was over, and I heard Maxim go out on to the drive and start up the car. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It would be a disgraceful farce in which he, Talc, would become the clown. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She turned back as he reached for his coins, intending to put an end to this mummer's farce. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The next move was a little like a scene in a farce. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The exchange rate is a farce, the price of carrots indefensible, duplicity lives everywhere. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The whole pageant that Lady Melisandre had orchestrated beyond the Wall suddenly seemed as empty as a mummer’s farce. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Determined to end the farce, I cornered Young and demanded to know who had given him authority. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a silent agreement in which each party knew what proper respects to pay, a polite farce created to ease the strain of acknowledging who owed who and what. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Sportswriters argued that the rich event was a farce arranged to pad Seabiscuit’s bankroll. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And, despite the farce that ended my attempt to say "yes" to the Brotherhood, I'm still plagued by his deathbed advice . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “They worry lest we join the partisans . . “As far as I’m concerned, this whole business of deportation is nothing but a big farce. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The prince laughed, as he always laughed when his bodyguard did this mummer's farce. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z This is such a farce, this whole thing. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Why did I ever allow myself to be talked into this farce? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Though its author is only 29, “The Performers” is like an early Neil Simon farce with an X-rated vocabulary, or a blue-tongued episode of the smirky but sentimental TV series “Love American Style.” Theater Review: ‘The Performers,’ With Henry Winkler and Cheyenne Jackson 2012-11-15T03:07:21Z Meanwhile her more mainstream recent efforts — a Southern farce, “Ridiculous Fraud,” and a therapy drama, “Family Week”— flopped with critics. Arts & Leisure: In ?The Jacksonian,? Beth Henley Confronts Violence 2012-01-13T04:47:33Z But, for all the production's jollity, I still yearn to see Marivaux's play presented as rueful comedy rather than rompy farce. The Game of Love and Chance ? review 2011-04-08T17:55:21Z "There's a rather dark gothic one, there's quite a nostalgic one and it goes right through to broad farce," Sir Alan says. Ayckbourn on keeping theatre alive 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z And he conveys that feeling via moments of escalating anxiety that evaporate into nothing and scenarios contrasting shock and darkness with farce. Fearless, fresh “Atlanta”: Donald Glover’s dreamy, surreal series is infused with peculiar magic 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z It's not a farce, it's not Noël Coward. Wallander's Krister Henriksson: 'I'd like to play King Lear' 2013-04-07T16:59:01Z Prosecutors adore the drama of having a victim or other witness point to the accused in court, but Benforado dismisses this sort of move as a “farce” that ought to be banned. There is no justice: What cops and courts get wrong about the human brain 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z “I wanted her to approach the part very physically because the movie felt to me like an extremely fast-paced slamming-door farce,” he says. Taraji P Henson: 'Hollywood didn't grasp my talent' 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Rumors A New York deputy mayor has a mishap right before an important dinner party in Neil Simon’s farce. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 26-March 5: 'Paradise Lost: Reclaiming Destiny' and more 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z But who can doubt the current taste for raunchy farces when the top eight slots on a summer weekend contain three of them? Cars 2 at the Box Office: Pixcar or Ishcar? 2011-06-26T05:55:00Z The settings merely serve as pretexts for farce and mayhem. Music Review: Haydn’s ‘Orlando Paladino’ at Manhattan School of Music 2014-05-04T21:38:14Z The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Johann Strauss Jr.’s tuneful farce “Die Fledermaus,” which rang in the new year on Tuesday evening, is operatic André: bubbly, sweet and syrupy. Opera Review: Die Fledermaus at the Met, via Douglas Carter Beane 2014-01-01T16:04:50Z Like all great farces, “The Italian Straw Hat” is as much concerned with order as disorder; Fadinard’s world spins around furiously but never topples. DVDs: Clair?s ?Italian Straw Hat? ? Farce With Eye on Past 2010-04-09T03:57:00Z Most effectively, though — and largely thanks to Ms. Kidman’s regal, witty performance — it’s a comedy, a country-house farce about the problems caused by an inconvenient guest. Review: ‘The Beguiled,’ Sofia Coppola’s Civil War Cocoon 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z But also, honestly, 18th-century French farce like Marivaux and Molière, where you have these women who are the architects, who are the smart ones. ‘Maggie’s Plan’ director has created a comedy about our ‘contemporary confusion’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Clocking in at a brisk 100 minutes, “James Brown Wore Curlers” is less a biting bourgeois farce or comedy of bad manners than Reza’s most celebrated plays: It feels slight and hardly packs a punch. Review: In a New Yasmina Reza Play, a Superfan Becomes Celine Dion 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Ms. Jenkins, whose previous features include “The Savages” and “Slums of Beverly Hills,” patiently assembles a structure suited either to melodrama or farce. Review: ‘Private Life,’ a Piquant Look at a Couple’s Campaign to Conceive 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z And you can’t miss the fact that, fundamentally, “Gone Girl” is a farce. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z If both are adept comedians, neither has the wherewithal to begin to impersonate the other’s body language and thereby raise the farce to a higher comic level. | 'The Change-Up': About That Wish: What if It Came True? 2011-08-04T21:39:27Z The spirits in my basement are telling me this is all descending into farce but I'm determined not to listen. Digested read: Kehlua! by Fay Weldon 2010-08-23T21:29:00Z It’s a romantic comedy and also a backstage farce; a classroom drama and also a grief memoir; a portrait of the artist as a no-longer-young woman and also a love letter to her hectic hometown. ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’ Review: Rapper’s Delight 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z A lot of this could be played for broader, more obvious farce, and you might wish it had been; the show’s reserved, minimalist approach won’t work for everyone. ‘The Patient’ Review: The Doctor Is In. In the Basement. 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Alessandro Talevi’s whimsical production — complete with shadow play, stages within stages, and a ribbon-obsessed cook who is, yes, also a chicken — likewise captured the surreal farce without leaving a sugary hangover. A Festival Adds to Opera’s Soaring Body Count 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z China supplies a rougher style of comedy in “Crazy Racer,” a wildly complicated farce filmed in the coastal city of Xiamen that begins and ends with bicycle pursuits. Film: Samplings From the Asian Film Festival 2010-06-24T21:39:00Z With a pace and cinematic language openly inspired by Charlie Chaplin, it’s as much a riff on silent movies as it is a coming-of-age tale with a whiff of political farce. Music Review: Satchmo?s Story, Music Substituting for Words 2010-08-31T22:25:00Z There is no redemption, no catharsis, no epiphany, and no moral order — just an endless tension between foreboding and farce. An American tragicomedy: The Trump spectacle as a new brand of theater 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z And so it goes on, the scenario occasionally comic but mainly sinister: history reprised as both tragedy and farce. Gerard Byrne: A state of neutral pleasure – review 2013-01-20T06:00:04Z It's possible to imagine a show in which these events were played as lighthearted farce. Julia Davis: laughing in the dark 2012-08-10T22:00:36Z Each member of his household has something to hide, during one crucial hour several people frenetically run around like characters in a French farce, and everyone always knows the precise time they did anything significant. Review | Who is the greatest fictional detective? A new book reminds us why it’s Poirot. 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z He wanted to become a basketball star but changed his mind when he played the title role in “Charley’s Aunt,” a venerable old farce in which a young man disguises himself as a woman. Gene Saks, actor-director who worked with Neil Simon, dies at 93 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z It’s effectively startling, but it makes a farce out of something that shouldn’t need much goosing. Review: ‘The Hot Zone’ Stays Tepid 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Cabrillo Music Theatre stages the classic farce set in ancient Rome, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. L.A. theater openings, Jan. 24-31: 'Dream Catcher' and more 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z This atmosphere of absurdity in public life may be one reason why British theatre is currently so fascinated by farce. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z They might have imagined they were starring in an action thriller, but it turned into a farce and, finally, a tragic, treasonous horror show. Perspective | The Trump cult has obliterated the line between citizenship and fandom, with deadly results 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Like “Idol,” the show is a total farce, but it isn’t as cruel. ‘American Idol’ ruined how we listen to singers. Did Auto-Tune fix it? 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z As an author of theatrical hits on both sides of the Atlantic, he made assorted fortunes and lost them reliably, while his romantic life was the stuff of drama, and occasionally farce. Review: ‘The Streets of New York’ Is a Good Old Melodrama 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z With curtains adorned with a pattern of lowering branches and a burst of ominous strings as the house lights dim, the evening promises southern gothic, but devolves into a mix of naturalism and farce. Cat On a Hot Tin Roof – review 2013-01-18T10:08:04Z The movie also tries to be a sex farce, a redemption story, a good-friend-bad-friend parable and a few other things, failing across the board. Movie Review: ‘Excuse Me for Living,’ Directed by Ric Klass 2012-10-12T01:30:44Z Sean Foley, who is directing the current What the Butler Saw, last year staged a modern French farce, The Painkiller, in Belfast. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z They again worked with Mr. Wright on the police farce “Hot Fuzz,” but with Mr. Wright busy, they decided to bring “Paul” to an American director. Right Man to Handle an Irreverent Alien 2011-03-11T05:36:15Z Shiga scatters panels loosely across each page, letting empty space sharpen the timing and staging of his gory farce. New Graphic Novels Detail Personal Journeys and Twists of Fate 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z Or rather, in “POTUS,” the snappy and intermittently hilarious farce that opened on Wednesday at the Shubert, a plaster sculpture of her face is. Review: In a Gleeful ‘POTUS,’ White House Enablers Gone Wild 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z So began Frank Rich's legendary review of the legendary flop, a 1983 farce by Arthur Bicknell that closed on opening night and after some of the most gobsmacked notices in Broadway history. ArtsBeat: Remember 'Moose Murders'? She Was There - On Stage 2013-01-30T23:31:23Z The show was always bound to be uneven, partly because it envelops and displays so many different kinds of comedy, intermingling political satire with shameless slapstick and ribald or just plain dirty farce. Secrets of “Saturday Night Live” at 40: “There would never be anything like this again” 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z “And you look like a Roman farce,” she replies. ‘I, Claudius’ Returns in a 35th-Anniversary DVD Set 2012-11-25T01:10:06Z It’s a question that “J.T. LeRoy” suggests is at least worth asking, even about a farce as transparently, laughably absurd as this one. ‘J.T. LeRoy’ Review: Unpeeling the Layers of an All-American Hoax 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Schweblin’s dark farces just might awaken you to some of your own. In Stories From an Argentine Surrealist, Circles of Madness and Violence 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z At once tragedy and farce, it breathes new life into a story as old as civilization. ‘A New Old Play’ Review: Even the Clown Show Must Go On 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Instead, he wrote, it “evolves from a coy, knowing farce into a heartfelt, serious comedy.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Amityville: An Origin Story’ and ‘Revengineers’ 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Despite some committed performances, particularly from a refreshingly natural Maika Monroe, “Villains” is a hackneyed farce rich in gimmicks and poor in substance. ‘Villains’ Review: Blundering Robbers Meet Their Match 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z There and at the Long Island mansion where the company completed tech rehearsals — and from which it will livestream — flowed a heady combination of after-hours grad school discourse and pure farce. Their Fascination With ‘Real Housewives’ Is Anything but Fake 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z At the end of “Falstaff,” Alice Ford tells her co-conspirators that when the farce in the woods is finished, “ci smaschereremo” — “we will unmask” — to come together in a spirit of final celebration. Verdi’s Shakespeare Resonates Across Italian Opera Houses 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z It is, in short, an old-style farce, and the film version accentuates that with dashes of animation reminiscent of the “Pink Panther” movies. Review: ‘Lucky Stiff,’ Still Farcical, Returns as a Movie 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z The movie ends with Paul’s default riff, in which he adopts a heavy brogue to mimic a parent’s advice to join the police “farce” and work for your “pinchon.” When the Maysles Made a Vérité Star of a Bible Huckster 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z There is another way to appropriately view this election: as farce. The Worst Party of the Year? Election Night 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Coward, who wrote the play in five days at the start of World War II to lift the spirits of his countrymen, labeled "Blithe Spirit" an "improbable farce." Angela Lansbury keeps spirits high in 'Blithe Spirit' 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z The more than 40 movies Mr. Scola directed over 40 years were emblematic of the mix of caustic satire and farce for which Italian films became known. Ettore Scola, Italian Film Director of Satire and Farce, Dies at 84 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Dora Bryan was a talented character actress who could turn her hand to everything from musicals to Shakespeare, farce to tragedy. Obituary: Dora Bryan 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z He sees "Benny Hill" as the main reason people associate the melody with "farce, madcap humor, and zany high jinks." Why "Yakety Sax" makes anything funny and has morphed into the soundtrack of political failure 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Billed as “an outrageous new comedy,” this crass, charmless vehicle aims for contemporary farce, but plays like an episode of “How I Met Your Mother” that would be killed in the writers’ room. | 'White's Lies': At New World Stages, a Scramble to Produce a Grandchild 2010-05-10T21:33:00Z One of Pu’s masterpieces, “Lotus Fragrance,” begins as French farce when Sang Xiao finds himself alternately the lover of both a ghost and a fox-spirit, each insanely jealous of the other. Review | The perfect book to help celebrate the Chinese New Year 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Tragedy and farce are first cousins, imagining the worst and soliciting from the audience either warm empathy or dry laughter. Into the Woods in Central Park: al Fresco Enchantment 2012-08-10T21:45:00Z Even if not every corner of Michael Holt's set is easily visible, this is a joyous revival that confirms Ayckbourn's classic status and proves farce can, literally, exist on several levels at once. Taking Steps | Theatre review 2010-03-29T20:30:00Z The play begins as a farce, detours into an alternate reality and concludes with a disquisition on quantum physics. ‘Cancún’: Not your average romp Like all farce, the more it descends into utter chaos, the darker, funnier and more tragic it becomes. This week's new theatre 2013-03-23T06:00:18Z Hay Fever Noel Coward's classic farce about a fractious theatrical family. L.A. theater openings, Nov. 1-8: 'Prairie-Oke!' and more 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Both these plays qualify as farces, albeit of a literate ilk. On the London Stage, Love Doesn’t Just Hurt, It Kills 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z And I think a lot of great comedy exists at the crossroads between pain and farce.” John Malkovich to Play Harvey Weinstein-Like Character in West End 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z This dark farce is brief, but cunningly plotted and sharply written. Night of Triumph by Peter Bradshaw – review 2013-06-12T15:00:00Z But what gives this production an unexpected boost is something not usually found in a farce - heart. 'Tenor's' foolishness undiminished in NY revival 2010-04-05T01:16:00Z Consider in the awkward social comedy “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” or the broader farce, “Meet the Parents,” about meeting one’s partner’s parents for the first time. 12 best dinner table scenes on film: From the Griswolds to the Deetzes, here are Hollywood’s most memorable meals 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z The news that a powerful and wealthy male playwright was writing a “farce” about abuses carried out by a powerful and wealthy male movie mogul didn’t go down too well. Everything We Know About ‘Bitter Wheat,’ David Mamet’s New Play 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Hovering a bit awkwardly, rather than interestingly, on the fine line between tear-jerker and farce, it could benefit from greater emphasis on the situation’s black comedy. Critic?s Notebook: At Vox Festival, Future of City Opera Sounds All Too Familiar 2011-05-16T21:55:57Z There is a moment when she refuses to co-operate in the farce, but her willingness to get on with the job is often touching in the face of their pious insensitivity. The Cardinals – review 2013-01-15T18:17:53Z It’s still an adventure story, a romance, and a farce. Mark Twain invented Mitt 2012-07-06T14:20:00Z “Three Nights” rendered Oliver North’s arms-for-hostages gambit as sheer farce, which is not where Strand is heading here. Enter, stage (far) right: new play about Justice Scalia in production at Arena 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The festival’s main offerings on Sunday could hardly have been more disparate: farce in the afternoon, small tragedy writ large at night. Spoleto Festival Premieres Follow Somber Reflection 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z A smartly rendered show focusing on Samantha could correct that view, and in the same way it could vivaciously trade in wicked farce that reminds us of why she's the character everyone wants to be. Kim Cattrall deserves her own "Sex and the City spinoff," as her time on "Glamorous" proves 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z “The Favourite,” with a profane, erudite script by Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, is a farce with teeth, a costume drama with sharp political instincts and an aggressive sense of the absurd. ‘The Favourite’ Review: Scheming for Power in a Kinky Palace Triangle 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z The Game's Afoot or Holmes for the Holidays A 1930s actor renowned for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes must solve an actual murder in Ken Ludwig's farce. L.A. theater openings, Nov. 15-22: 'Latina Christmas Special' and more 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Take Earn at the police station, waiting to be bailed and trying not to provoke the screw-ups all around him: edgy farce briefly becomes unbearably sharp when a white cop brutalises a mentally ill suspect. Tragic, funny and weird: Donald Glover's Atlanta is a new high for TV comedy 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z Nasty Baby” is not really — or not only — a loving farce about non-heteronormative reproduction and multicultural friendship. Review: In ‘Nasty Baby,’ Friends Decide to Start a Family. What Could Go Wrong? 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z But as anyone who has ever tried writing farce can tell you, it's the most difficult theatrical genre of all because it's so physical. Feeling the farce 2010-12-15T13:01:43Z A sex farce with gender politics on its mind, Caryl Churchill's "Cloud 9" is a feminist classic that still bowls theatergoers over with its breathtaking theatrical daring. 'Cloud 9' is a time-tripping feminist classic nimbly done by Antaeus Theatre Company 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z “This democratic era is a farce,” he said, adding that his next CD, to be called “Africa for Africa” and due out later this year, will address this and related topics. Femi Kuti, Guarding the Legacy of His Father, Fela 2010-07-11T22:42:00Z Karl Marx once quipped, “History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.” Is Donald Trump "crazy?" Wrong question 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z His mesmerizing, acid soliloquies on clock repairing and climate despairing and small-town farce have no analogue in fiction. 12 Surprising Reasons to Be Grateful for the Arts in 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z I wouldn’t have heard of him either, except that his hilarious Brooklyn-set horror farce “Murder Party” came out in 2007, when I was following indie genre film obsessively. Patrick Stewart goes Oregon white supremacist in the devious thriller “Green Room” 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z The coarser elements in Mr. Wheeler’s book are underscored with an off-putting snigger, as if this romantic roundelay were little more than a galumphing sex farce. Peters and Stritch in ?A Little Night Music? 2010-08-02T01:58:00Z Lunacy presented with a poker face is the engine driving this classic comedy, which combines satirical verbal jousting reminiscent of Oscar Wilde with the frenzied energy of farce. Theater Review: Joe Orton’s ‘Loot’ Is a Comedy of Bad Manners 2014-01-19T21:36:48Z But, while Luscombe stages this antique farce well, he and his colleagues will need more daring choices if they are going to make Brighton rock. Dandy Dick – review 2012-07-04T11:35:31Z It is primal farce, which, if we haven’t learned to accept it, will leave us permanently wrinkling our noses while the rest of the world goes on sniffing and chortling. Seth MacFarlane’s ‘A Million Ways to Die in the West’ 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z That splashy blend of violence and farce, hewing close to the shore of today’s tweet stream, is the first sign that we’re in the presence of a major new comic novelist. With ‘The Nix,’ Nathan Hill announces himself as a major new comic novelist 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Photograph: Murdo Macleod There's something strikingly old-fashioned about this breathless, elegant farce about intellectual life. Skios by Michael Frayn – review 2013-04-28T11:00:02Z So who's playing Caligula in this particular farce? Why Tony Blair is a high-tech company's best friend 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z Particularly as he got older, he was more and more interested in the absurd and farce, and not having to be prove how serious he was. Director Morgan Neville on “They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead” and the last years of Orson We... 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z He adapted Molière’s “The Miser” to comment on the Reagan era, and his farce “Three Nights in Tehran” concerned the Iran-contra affair. ‘The Originalist,’ a New Play About Justice Antonin Scalia by John Strand 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Pop TV's biggest hit, after all, is "Schitt's Creek," a farce about a wealthy family that lost everything and experiences a ludicrous level of difficulty acclimating to their new state of poverty. Forget Florida Man: Summer belongs to the trailer park queens of "Florida Girls" 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The lurches in tone — family melodrama to political thriller to dinner-table farce — make this feel less like a series than a short-story anthology by mismatched authors riffing on a theme. ‘Extrapolations’ and the Peril of Climate Cringe 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Our politics became farce and tragedy after decades of harassment by Republican leaders against fairly elected Democratic presidents. ‘Veep’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ Echo Our Politics, as Farce and Tragedy 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z A courtroom thriller of frayed familial relations and diminished responsibility, this marks the first attempt at drama by David Dobkin, best known for larky farces like Shanghai Knights, The Wedding Crashers and The Change-Up. The films to watch in autumn 2014: from Gone Girl to Mr Turner 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Almodóvar’s films are full of similar moments: anguished human dramas edged with knockabout farce. Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I can no longer hide’ 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z The exceptional cast does what it can to keep things jumping and grounded, as the tone wobbles from intrigue to farce and back. | 'Salvation Boulevard': An Evangelist, an Atheist and a Murder That Tests Faith 2011-07-14T23:06:36Z Not many playwrights would have thought to turn this confluence of epochal sensibilities into a farce, but Stoppard has a gift for finding humor in the most rarefied scenarios. With his first new play in nearly a decade, Tom Stoppard aims to 'stretch your mind just a little bit' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z She couldn’t stand waiting for the farce of a Bachelor engagement to come to its inevitable conclusion and opted to return to the show to throw her stilettos and chandelier earrings into the proverbial ring. The Bachelor Watch: That's My Man! 2012-01-17T14:20:36Z For Mr. Enrigue, unlike for Marx, history doesn’t repeat itself “the first time as tragedy, then as farce”: Instead, history is imbued with farce even in the first go-round. Review: In Álvaro Enrigue’s ‘Sudden Death,’ a Farcical Duel With Topspin 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z This year he will be back with several more: a new work with a war-on-terror theme, a revival from 1992 and a double bill of short farces. ArtsBeat: Brits Off Broadway to Feature Mini-Festival of Ayckbourn Plays 2014-02-10T13:01:59Z This farce, which premiered in the West End in 2015, arrives to Broadway this spring, with Adam Meggido directing the chaos. Live Performance in New York: Here’s What to See This Spring 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Stephen Root, in a single scene as Porter, lifts the grim, forensic business of regicide and its aftermath into the realm of knockabout farce. ‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ Review: The Thane, Insane, Slays Mainly in Dunsinane 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Struggles over inheritance are always painful -- unless, of course, they take place in a French farce, in which case they are endlessly prankish and ribald. Highly engaging low farce in 'The Heir Apparent' at ICT 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z Whether psychological drama or sexual farce — and, really, there’s no way to tell — “Sibyl” is a soapy mess. ‘Sibyl’ Review: Diagnosing Problems, and Creating More 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z The wonderful paradox of farce," he says, "is that there's a double image going on on stage. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z You can bet money on a disastrous outcome, though you might not foresee the precise sequence of mayhem and farce that unfolds on the streets of Queens over a single freezing night. Review: A ‘Good Time’ Was Not Had by This Critic 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Politicians perform a “farce of shameless, naked greed and short-sighted incompetence”; one party’s leaders are “flabby hypocrites”; the political “system” serves only to extract resources to benefit the elite. Between a rock and a high place 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z The music, more than the acting, revved the pulse of this renovated antique farce. It's a tame 'One Man, Two Guvnors' at South Coast Repertory 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z He adds, “There’s all manner of sex in ‘Casual’ — teenage and middle-aged hookups, open relationships and foursomes — but the series is less sex farce than family dramedy. What to Do This Weekend 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The deceptions and misunderstandings that occur here are as improbable, and perversely logical, as those of Feydeau’s paradigmatic sex farces. ‘Ayckbourn Ensemble,’ 3 Offerings by the British Playwright 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Turning history into farce probably wasn’t what Antonio J. Mendez, a Central Intelligence Agency officer, was after when he was tapped to help free six State Department employees stranded in Tehran. Movie Review: ‘Argo,’ Directed by Ben Affleck 2012-10-11T17:05:05Z Pride of place goes to witty but inconsequential banter, smart quips and gross-out sexual and scatological farce. Why The Dictator isn't Great 2012-05-16T14:38:23Z It's an obvious farce, but still, occasionally, a funny one. This week's new films 2012-08-17T23:05:18Z So she wrote a comedy about women struggling to adhere to the rules of the patriarchy, which “literally causes a farce on a day-to-day basis.” The Playwright Making a Farce of the Patriarchy 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z There are similarities, but Friedkin and Letts are after something crazier and less controlled, something that veers from all-out farce to social realism to shocking brutality to unknowable mystery and even hints of the supernatural. “Killer Joe”: Matthew McConaughey’s comeback gets creepier 2012-07-26T15:00:00Z But for all its tickling blips of farce and droll bits of drive-by theology, “Miracle Workers” is fundamentally corny, which may be a proof of its sincerity. Starring Steve Buscemi as God, “Miracle Workers” Is Sappy, Juvenile, and Sharp All at Once 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The book settles for broadly drawn psychosexual farce instead of deeper examination of the arts of fiction and biography. Reviews: New Books From Thomas McGuane, Hanif Kureishi and More 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z In good farce the situations may be absurd, but the characters are real. Theater Review | 'The Female of the Species': She?s So Under the Gun, She Can?t Leave Her Desk 2010-03-01T05:40:00Z His opera debut came at the Graz Opera in 1984, in a production of Donizetti’s farce “Viva la Mamma.” Fabio Luisi Is to Be Met Opera?s Principal Guest Conductor 2010-04-27T21:07:00Z The topic of college admissions lends itself well to degenerate farce on “The Politician,” a terribly giddy examination of human desire, American hierarchies, and the baroque structures erected in support of each. Ryan Murphy’s “The Politician” Is a Funhouse-Mirror Reflection of the So-Called Meritocracy 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z The events are as gloriously rococo as the farces beloved of 18th-century audiences. Queen, thief, wife, lover 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Several bits depend on a setup too outlandish even for farce, which works best when the conditions are real but the responses extreme, instead of the other way around. Review: Flying High and Falling Hard in ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z This entertaining farce, packed with comic characters, displays his usual darkly funny style and appreciation for Florida’s endless idiosyncrasies. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z Mr. West dismissed that label but proudly described the show as farce. Sad Day for Gotham: Adam West, Who Played Batman, Dies at 88 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z While acknowledging their appeal, she added, “Eccentricity and farce fail to be compelling in a cookbook that purports to be useful.” Clarissa Dickson Wright, Rebel TV Chef, Dies at 66 2014-03-18T00:52:49Z Among the more positive reviews, Entertainment Weekly's Leah Greenblatt says "Tammy" is a "broad, helter-skelter farce whose best bits hinge almost entirely on the considerable charms of its star." Melissa McCarthy road comedy 'Tammy' hits the skids, reviews say 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Are these bleak portraits of hope-starved lives meant to be farce or tragedy? | 'Uncle Vanya': ‘Uncle Vanya’ With Cate Blanchett at City Center 2012-07-22T18:31:05Z The jokes "are told once, then again, then a third time, then remarked upon," and ultimately, "the farce lacks finesse." 'The Interview': Farce doesn't live up to fuss, reviews say 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z In a climactic scene that has the tone of a subdued bedroom farce, the out-of-town guests, nosy immigration officials and cheating lovers all collide. ‘Chinese Puzzle,’ a Comedy Directed by Cedric Klapisch 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z “I love farces, but they typically rely on sexist and racist tropes,” Fillinger said. The Playwright Making a Farce of the Patriarchy 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z The potential for either violence or farce lurks just under the surface. Movie Listings for June 3-9 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z “Boondocks” depicts Riley’s rhetoric as poisonous and the trial as a scathing farce. How ‘Chappelle’s Show’ and ‘The Boondocks’ Kept Us Laughing at R. Kelly 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z Black novelists have long used surrealism, farce and satire to tackle taboos around race. A Crop of New Novels About Race and Racism Finds Freedom in Satire 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z The film starring Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly was derided by Albert and his two sisters, Princess Caroline and Princess Stephanie, as "a farce" based on "erroneous and dubious historical references." Monaco royals announce a baby on the way 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z So much more trouble ensues that “The Last Song,” if not for its sluggish pacing and soft lighting, might turn into farce. Movie Review | 'The Last Song': Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth in a Beach Romance 2010-03-30T22:09:00Z Some say that farce, like the whodunnit, has simply migrated to television, which has an appetite for situation comedy. Feeling the farce 2010-12-15T13:01:43Z So now there’s the whole farce about student athletes, which was a term created just to continue to suffocate the players with amateurism. Q&A with Jalen Rose: ‘If you get a chance to step on the NBA court even once, that’s a successful life’ 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z All these moments compensate for the softer corners this season manifested in the usual physical farce and misdirects, and the questionable choice to make Andrea Martin's Joy as campily vivacious as she comes across. "Only Murders in the Building" is the more the merrier this season 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Adapting Le Misanthrope was never going to be easy, though: this time, all those witty servant girls, broad elements of farce and implausible happy endings were thin on the ground. Mersey Molière 2013-02-05T18:00:47Z The productions I’m talking about are more or less realistic, as opposed to the sort of broad farce or instructional Brechtian fare where you expect people to be caricatures. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Finding Truth in Phoniness 2011-07-12T18:22:25Z A farce that stretches to 2 hours 40 minutes is in danger of collapsing like an ill-cooked soufflé. Theater Review: ‘The Matchmaker’ at Stratford Shakespeare Festival 2012-08-26T21:36:37Z The amusing farce premiered on Wednesday at the Sundance Film Festival to a warm reception. Julie Delpy, Chris Rock talk "2 Days in New York" 2012-01-26T13:43:29Z The novel has elements of farce and a soundtrack of the scraping of twin beds being pushed together overhead. Deborah Moggach: a life in writing 2013-02-16T07:04:01Z This film by Serge Bozon is two parts deadpan farce, one part conceptual mystery. What’s on TV Monday: ‘The Good Doctor’ and ‘The Schouwendam 12’ 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z It's a fatally miscellaneous scene in a movie that shifts from farce to grotesque to melodrama to straight-to-video action flick, without pretending to make sense or reassuring us that we're having a good time. "Super": The sad-sack superhero indie reaches its insane apex 2011-03-31T00:31:00Z “Bombshell” is a loud, frenetic farce, marked by breakaway pacing and editing — the prototype of the show-biz screwball comedy. Film: Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Camera 2010-02-27T03:00:00Z The lineup also includes a revival of Terence Rattigan's drama "The Winslow Boy" directed by Lindsay Posner and a British tour of the Old Vic's acclaimed production of Michael Frayn's farce "Noises Off." Spacey unveils star-studded 2013 Old Vic line-up 2012-12-03T20:31:05Z Its whirlwind climax skewers the hypocrisy of discriminatory bathroom laws and transforms into a circular farce lampooning comparative suffering that keeps on finding ways to top itself. "The L Word: Generation Q" wants us back, but we'd rather hang with "Work in Progress" 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z But, at its best, the play reminds us that farce, with its obsessional neurosis and release of subconscious fears, is an essentially Freudian entertainment. Hysteria – review 2012-08-07T16:00:06Z Still, there were scenes out of a Feydeau farce at Kahn’s Philadelphia offices. The Dramas and Intrigues of Louis Kahn, Monumental Architect 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z If that was a shaggy-dog story, it was also the kind of black farce that filled Mr. Edwards’s later films. Blake Edwards, Prolific Comedy Director, Dies at 88 2010-12-16T20:39:02Z What is happening is a farce and in one sense it is obviously comical and embarrassing, but it is also very dangerous, and the left seems too weak to provide effective opposition. Maurizio Pollini: a life in music 2011-01-01T00:04:05Z The satire here is disguised as farce masquerading as a stage potboiler. Amy Brenneman as a damsel in distress? 'Rules of Seconds' has some surprises up its sleeve 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z In a country that currently has the second highest rate of femicide in Latin America, the gag doesn’t land as a lighthearted farce; it just feels irresponsible and out-of-touch. Romeo Santos Reveals Another Volume of Boundary-Crossing Bachata 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z But, Scott wrote, the movie “conducts its business with brisk, breezy irreverence. It’s a didactic comedy, an earnest lesson in political economy dressed up as a farce.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Laundromat’ and ‘Modern Love’ 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z He turns the entire company’s gastrointestinal disaster in Mexico City into a masterpiece of escalating farce. For this globe-trotting Hamlet, all the world’s a stage 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z His humour is a mix of irony, satire and farce: sometimes it's hard to tell which is which. Edinburgh international book festival: writers' picks 2011-08-12T21:55:15Z There’s much to admire in the detailing of the landscapes, in the author’s patent affection for her characters – even the walk-on parts – and in the signature mix of farce and melancholia. 10 of the best books set in Turkey - that will take you there 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z But the book rises above farce when Silva lavishes her attention on moments that sparked her own imagination. A Fan Letter to Charles Dickens 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z One Man, Two Guvnors, the hit London farce that opened last week on Broadway, is shameless: it will do literally anything for a laugh. Low Comedy, High Concept 2012-04-24T10:50:07Z Ashbery's poem starts out in the low farce world of its source but soon moves to an entirely other sphere, an indeterminate narrative hovering on the verge of articulation. Poster poems: Licence to steal 2013-02-08T11:22:08Z Next to “Modern Family” and “The Middle,” it’s the one that’s run the longest, perhaps because it’s a distillation of the best parts of the ABC family sitcom formula, combining heartfelt sentiment and cranked-up farce. Comfort Viewing: Why I Still Love ‘The Goldbergs’ 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z The film has the plot twists of farce but lacks the complex mechanics and sense of danger that make the plays of Georges Feydeau and Ben Travers work. City Island 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z Black Comedy Chaos ensues when a young sculptor borrows a neighbor’s antique furniture without permission in this farce. L.A. theater openings, Dec. 25-Jan. 1: Rita Rudner and more 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Is farce, perhaps, not just a distraction from unhappy times, but also a reflection of how it feels to be caught up in them? Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z It is this bouleversé world that The White Guard captures so well – its fear and its farce. Hung up 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z And what we’re watching is one day when the farce breaks down. Domhnall Gleeson Feels That Crackle in the Air 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z The "I Love Lucy" of Shakespeare's canon, "Merry Wives" borrowed from French and Italian farce to depict two Windsor hausfraus handily outwitting male jealousy, greed and lust. Review: A wise Mistress Page and a well-rounded Falstaff shine in Seattle Shakes' 'Merry Wives' 2011-04-27T21:33:07Z Director Matsumoto, a reigning comic on Japanese TV, manages a balance of farce and impending tragedy that would win the approval of the grouchiest child. New York Asian Film Festival: A Scalding Wind from the East 2012-07-06T23:42:38Z The early days of live television threw up plenty of situations that in less confident, or brazen, hands could have descended into farce. Sir Patrick Moore: the eccentric amateur who became a TV star 2012-12-09T20:31:32Z For many viewers, that will be enough, with enjoyment in direct proportion to tolerance for theatrical farce and hyper-romantic dialogue — and a lead character who is less engaging than either. ‘Cyrano, My Love’ Review: A Nose for Romance 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Shaw responded by writing an extravagant burlesque, which carried his cast of medicine men to the verge of farce, making them more vivid than real doctors yet recognisable as comic characters in the medical profession. Bernard Shaw and his lethally absurd doctor's dilemma 2012-07-13T21:54:04Z Inspired by the example of the avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, the Vogels began exhibiting a range of movies — experimental psychodramas, poetic documentaries, abstract animations, banned French bedroom farces and forgotten classics, complete with notes. A Master of Mixing and Matching Movies Gets a Citywide Tribute 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z In this impossible farce, in which our age difference was exactly the point, I still couldn’t bring myself to say I was 40. Modern Love: Being the Older Woman 2010-07-22T21:24:00Z Chekhov-Ayckbourn fission – a fireworks display of farce, comedy and tragedy around a dining table. Dear Uncle ? review 2011-07-23T23:05:53Z NBC's freewheeling farce about the lives of a motley group of community college students drew a fiercely devoted fan base. It's one big 'Community' for creator Dan Harmon on Yahoo 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z You Never Can Tell George Bernard Shaw's classic romantic farce set in a seaside English town. L.A. theater openings, March 6-13: 'Cloud 9,' 'Sex With Strangers' and more 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z "Who You Think I Am," however, wisely does not play this catfishing game as farce. Juliette Binoche on playing a catfishing 50-year-old: "She cannot accept being abandoned" 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z It plays as farce, but the chords of family tragedy resonate underneath the laughter. Movie Review: ?Footnote,? a Satire and Family Drama by Joseph Cedar 2012-03-08T17:16:01Z Some episodes are all-out farce, some episodes are political, some episodes are poignant. Modern Family, Line Of Duty, Louie: Jason Isaacs's favourite TV 2013-05-20T11:00:00Z Like Frayn’s madcap “Noises Off,” “The Copenhagen Papers” — written by Frayn and David Burke, who played the Nobel laureate Niels Bohr in the original London cast of “Copenhagen” — is a backstage farce. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z In “What’s In a Name?,” an uproarious French farce, the catalyst for the flinging of mud isn’t booze but a practical joke that is carried so far it rattles skeletons. Movie Review: ‘What’s in a Name?,’ a Farce About a Fractious Evening 2013-12-12T23:26:35Z The horror movie, in terms of its shape and dramatic mechanisms, is closer to farce than drama. The Human Centipede is cosmic slapstick 2010-08-29T21:30:00Z The Blade of Jealousy Staged reading of Henry Ong’s modern-day adaptation of 17th-century Spanish playwright Tirso De Molina’s romantic farce “Jealous of Herself.” L.A. theater openings, Aug. 28-Sept. 4: 'The Importance of Being Earnest' and more 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z The result is a nightly farce that is one reason why wives also suffer from insomnia more often than their husbands. Separate beds are liberating 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Maintaining a tone that’s precisely balanced between terror and farce, Mr. Semans refuses to answer, directing our attention instead to Paul’s mental state as he conducts an increasingly alarming campaign of retrieval. Movie Review: ‘Nancy, Please,’ Directed by Andrew Semans 2013-05-23T23:39:32Z The confectionary plot, which often recalls a sugar-coated variation on Oscar Wilde’s later “Importance of Being Earnest,” is classic farce turning on that sturdy staple of British comedy: the cross-dressing man. | 'Where?s Charley?': A Few Wacky Victorians in Love 2011-03-18T22:54:37Z So how strange that this production, despite its modern dress, resists contemporary allusion entirely, reducing “Tartuffe” to a pedestrian domestic farce. Review: At ‘Tartuffe’ in the Park, Hypocrisy Is No Picnic 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z Twelve months the same goes for Wes Anderson's farce The Grand Budapest Hotel - a star-studded adventure set in a famous European hotel between the wars. Baftas 2015: shocks and surprises 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z That version of “Grudge Match” would belong to the now unfashionable “Grumpy Old Men” school of geriatric farce. Movie Review: ‘Grudge Match’ Stars Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro 2013-12-24T16:51:42Z It will probably be really appalling to watch and embarrassing, and if you think that email scene was a farce … But it was really liberating and weird. “Anger Management”: Charlie Sheen’s crass comeback 2012-06-26T15:15:00Z Linking these loopy conflicted characters entails some heightened narrative contrivances that situate the show in absurdist farce, but Gregg T. Daniel’s staging keeps it laugh-out-loud funny even when airing uncomfortable truths. The rhetoric of race gets a swift kick in Rogue Machine's 'Honky' 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z And the premise should have been a sure-fire recipe for farce, especially when everyone piles into a summer share in the Hamptons. | 'Something Borrowed': New Lovers and the Old Triangle 2011-05-06T05:23:01Z This challenge, which could have been milked for farce, is another missed comic opportunity in a movie so timid it seems afraid of its own shadow. Movie Review: ‘The Guilt Trip,’ With Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen 2012-12-18T18:30:08Z Contra Marx’s dictum that history repeats itself first as tragedy and then as farce, here, the history that first transpired as farce is in “Lorena” recapitulated as tragedy. The Lorena Bobbitt Story Offers New Lessons on Male Vulnerability 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z So on the level of farce “2 Days in New York” provides some good, sloppy fun. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘2 Days in New York,’ Starring Julie Delpy and Chris Rock 2012-08-10T06:23:01Z Yet the stage is more literal than the page, and there’s a bumptiousness to the vaudeville-grade performances that edges Thackeray’s wit and satire firmly into farce. Review | Becky Sharp returns with razzmatazz in Kate Hamill’s stripped-down ‘Vanity Fair’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z "There was a tendency to stick with those things that people assume that amateur theatre does: whodunnits, Agatha Christie, old Whitehall farces and things that bring punters in," he says. Raising the curtain on the new am-dram 2012-12-15T21:00:00Z The story is to some degree a sex farce. ‘The Emerald Light in the Air,’ Stories by Donald Antrim 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z “The Cottage,” a farce inspired by and also sending up the work of Noël Coward, will come to Broadway this summer in a new production directed by the “Seinfeld” alum Jason Alexander. Jason Alexander Will Direct a Comedy on Broadway This Summer 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Instead, it’s an absurd farce by a future writer of “Frasier.” Perspective | Andrew Sean Greer: 5 books that were important to me when I was coming out 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z The ancient Greek farce “Lysistrata” is not just hospitable to bawdy humor. In this ‘Lysistrata,’ sex and war don’t mix 2013-07-25T22:40:24Z Like Bruce Norris’s “The Qualms,” “Threesome” often resembles a meandering debate more than the frisky bedroom farce its title suggests. Review: ‘Threesome,’ at 59E59 Theaters, Examines Sexual Inequality 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z TV cables are snaking down the corridors, photographers stand in huddles and the doors keep opening and shutting like a Feydeau farce. A modern movie star is born 2011-01-22T00:04:10Z But it is as artificial as a plastic topiary, and the farce feels underpowered, like a pillow fight waged with very small pillows. Review: ‘London Assurance’ Minds Its Manners 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z But creator Marc Cherry kept all its disparate elements in check and never quite let it stray into farce. TV OD with Lucy Mangan: Desperate Housewives 2012-06-01T23:05:34Z Douglas Slocombe, the British cinematographer who filmed the Nazi invasion of Poland, the adventures of “Indiana Jones” and the madcap farce of Ealing Studios comedies, died on Monday in London. Douglas Slocombe, ‘Indiana Jones’ Cinematographer, Dies at 103 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z In her withering commentary, you might hear echoes of your own frustration: “Surely this farce is a bit over the top?” An Epic From Iceland, Complete With Unicorns, Angels and a Stamp-Collecting Werewolf 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z That’s important: You need to see that Frances believes that she’s the hero of a drama, not an antihero in a farce. In ‘Divorce,’ Sarah Jessica Parker Wants to Ditch Mr. Medium 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The novel hovers awkwardly between farce and psychological realism. The most pleasant novel about pornography you’ll ever read 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z I Used to Go Here is a comedy of quarterlife or thirdlife crisis with a throwaway lightness and dapper self-awareness, combined with a broad and surreal streak of farce. The best films of 2020 ... that you haven't seen 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z His batch of new films — a goofy sex farce, an earnest morality tale and a bloody crime thriller — suggest an eagerness not just to keep busy but also to stretch. the new season Film: Ryan Gosling and ?Ides of March? 2011-09-14T12:00:05Z Stroman said that when she first read the play, she was startled to find a farce that put women not in secondary or tertiary roles but primary ones. The Playwright Making a Farce of the Patriarchy 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Technically, farce is about taking away all the thinking time, not only from the characters but also from the audience. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z Subtlety is not a requirement — or even an asset — when playing farce, and the cast of “Don’t Dress for Dinner” certainly makes no attempt to underplay. Theater Review: ?Don?t Dress for Dinner? at American Airlines Theater 2012-04-27T02:00:01Z It’s through Peggy’s consistent, traumatised silence that Scorsese highlights the true horror of the milieu he’s examining; she sees the old, male world of her father for the self-destructive farce it is. Toxic avengers: what Scorsese and Tarantino's new films say about male violence 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z They imply a lack of faith that the play can generate sufficient heat by itself – and they propel Tuck's performance into the realms of farce. Coalition – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-16T14:18:56Z This means the comedy is embedded in the farce, and, unfortunately, is lost in scenes reliant on forwarding or explaining the plot. The Comedy of Errors – review 2013-07-03T02:49:02Z It will probably be really appalling to watch and embarrassing, and if you think that email scene was a farce… But it was really liberating and weird. “Newsroom” star Emily Mortimer: Americans are dangerously uninformed 2012-06-22T14:57:00Z In what played as a halfhearted attempt at farce staging, Alison hustled Noah out the back door while Cole came in the front. ‘The Affair,’ Season 3, Episode 5: Back to Block Island 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z “The trailer appears to be a farce and confirms the totally fictional nature of this film,” Palace officials said. CANNES WATCH: Lively soars, Kidman talks lows 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z But their characters are not distinct enough, and scenes too often seem beholden to the mechanics of farce. ‘Chimichangas and Zoloft’ by Fernanda Coppel 2012-06-05T02:00:00Z Even the jihadi instructors who apparently confided in him assured him that farce is commonplace in their line of work. Four Lions may roar, but its laughs are hollow 2010-05-10T10:09:00Z This was high farce, transmitted through the smallest details. The Curious Case of Chris Evans’s Sweater 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Yet what emerges is not the aggressively, punitively ugly farce of “I Mostri,” but something infinitely more attenuated, naturalistic and deeply sad. DVD: Preminger?s ?Anatomy of a Murder? on DVD 2012-03-09T17:00:00Z As an ill-fated staging of “A Christmas Carol” tucked into Seattle Repertory Theatre’s holiday farce “Inspecting Carol” goes kerflooey, the laughs multiply. Seattle Rep mounts redo of ‘Inspecting Carol’ romp | Theater review 2012-11-30T23:03:22Z For the most part Mr. Tennant and especially Ms. Tate seem more propelled by the external mechanics of farce than their characters’ internal inconsistencies. Arts & Leisure: At the Theater, You Can Feel the Connection 2011-07-20T11:53:32Z Both shows might be labelled as satire, but on “The Thick of It,” the characters’ frenzied spinning often becomes pure farce, with jokes packed into every possible space. Jesse Armstrong’s Savage Comedy in “Succession” Season 1 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z When I am watching "The Dropout," and I think of some of your earlier work like "Wet Hot American Summer," I see the farce. Michael Showalter on American con artists: "We really are screwed if there's no such thing as truth" 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z When Rudy decides to make a Dolemite movie, “Dolemite Is My Name” shifts gears into backstage farce, and Murphy shares the screen with a growing ensemble of accomplices, all of them great fun to watch. ‘Dolemite Is My Name’ Review: Eddie Murphy, Raw and Cooking 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z There are spasms of farce and throbs of melodrama, but they arise within the rhythms of everyday behavior. ‘Marriage Story’ Review: Dance Me to the End of Love 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The piece is, at first glance, a bit of a farce. 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z It's the rare film to tell a story about the struggles of growing older, featuring a downbeat performance from Lewis far from the elastic farce his fans are accustomed to seeing. A controversial victory lap for Lewis at Cannes 2013-05-25T17:46:14Z But as shadows of Brahmin elitism, sexual innuendo and misogyny descend, the farce darkens. ‘Grey Gardens’: Freak show or poignant portrait? 2013-03-22T23:51:30Z In such a world, simple tasks like, say, acquiring a pig, become maddening farces. Theater Review: ‘The Pig, or Vaclav Havel’s Hunt for a Pig,’ a Wry Czech Tale 2014-03-12T16:30:28Z I would also watch a noirish farce about the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company. “Dickinson,” from Apple TV+, Is Deeply Weird and Dazzles Gradually 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Though the tone is quiet and the pacing serenely unhurried, “Sleeping Beauty” is at times almost screamingly funny, a pointed, deadpan surrealist sex farce that Luis Buñuel might have admired. | 'Sleeping Beauty': Julia Leigh?s ?Sleeping Beauty? - Review 2011-12-02T00:02:07Z The Coward farce tells the story of a medium who accidentally conjures the ghost of a writer's precocious wife. Angela Lansbury returns to US stage 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z If “The Janes” makes abortion into a caper, “Happening” turns it into a hero’s journey and “Oh God” renders it as a farce. When an Abortion Story Is Told as a Caper, Thriller or Farce 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Every year the press regurgitated the same articles: why must we endure this farce, can't we do something different, what relevance does Ulysses have for today's society, and so on ad infinitum. Bloomsday: a rare chance to feel good about being Irish 2012-06-16T09:59:01Z “The ill effects are very real,” says Strand, whose plays include a Reagan-era adaptation of Moliere’s “The Miser” and “Three Nights in Tehran,” a farce about Oliver North and the Iran-contra affair. Review | John Strand’s political comedy ‘Lincolnesque’ returns to Keegan Theatre 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z David Ives’s “The Metromaniacs” because attention must be paid to the occasional farce which is both smart and brilliantly realized. Upon Further Review: Readers Tell Us What Deserved to Be Top 10 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Vanya's bungled attempt to shoot the professor is one of the hairpin moments common to both authors in which tragedy tips over into farce. Dear Uncle - review 2011-07-14T16:14:28Z Like a character in a contemporary farce, I fell down that unlikely rabbit hole on a fine Tuesday just before Independence Day, when a particularly curious tweet landed in my Twitter feed. Perspective | I am a theater critic in New York. Not a hair salon in Dublin. Let me explain. 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z That’s not to say that “Outside Looking In” is one long buzzkill, but it is a farce laced with tragedy: the story of a good man’s increasingly tortuous moral gymnastics. Review | T.C. Boyle is America’s bard of historical frauds. It’s about time he skewered Timothy Leary. 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z By the time the trend reached a Canadian Garfield-themed restaurant — which posted a baffling image of the cartoon cat’s eyes squinting languidly atop a black square — the movement had been recast as a farce. 8 Ways a Modern Civil Rights Movement Moved the Culture 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Will it be played the second time as farce or as great escape? Al-lelujah! A Pacino Double Feature at Venice 2014-08-30T04:00:00Z While the film deals with feminist themes and plays for laughs, “Tootsie,” Mr. Scott says, “is neither a sermon or a farce.” ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'Tootsie' 2011-02-08T20:48:53Z Josie Rourke is the director of The Physicists, a work that she says "starts off as a farce but ends up as a tragedy". Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z But her performance felt constrained, cautiously sung and not quite in the manic spirit of Ravel’s bedroom farce. ‘Scalia/Ginsburg’: An affectionate comic opera look at the high court 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z “I think a lot of great comedy exists at the crossroads between pain and farce.” Everything We Know About ‘Bitter Wheat,’ David Mamet’s New Play 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z The movie isn't so much schizophrenic as playing both sides of its coin — acutely observed comedy and flat-out farce — in hopes of attracting both the older and the younger demographic. Dinner for Schmucks: Carell Goes Crazy 2010-07-29T21:35:00Z Mr. Ludwig’s play draws on many of the classic conventions of farce, which are still workable today, as the writers on “Frasier” handily proved on several occasions, come to think of it. Theater Review | 'Lend Me a Tenor': LaPaglia and Shalhoub Clown Around at the Music Box 2010-04-05T02:09:00Z If you’re expecting fireworks or farce — something on the order of “Smiles of a Summer Night” or even “Wonder Boys” — this isn’t that book. In Julia Glass’s new novel, a famous children’s author leaves a mess in his wake 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z No one is really in charge here; the systemic farce of this society runs itself. Armando Iannucci Gets Lost in Space in “Avenue 5” 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z And many of the men, like Lloyd Hutchinson as a sternly spoken colonel, seem to be trying on farce but can’t quite find a size that fits. Theater Review: Slamming Doore, Heavy Sledding 2011-01-11T13:00:02Z Skipping the spooky sound effects or “gotcha” scares is like staging a farce in a loft without doors. 'Penny Dreadful' Recap: Cue the Seance 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z It is a farce and it is absurd. "High Desert" star Patricia Arquette on fighting for equality: "We need to claw back some territory" 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z On the question of a #MeToo story being treated as “farce,” she added that it was all a question of tone. Everything We Know About ‘Bitter Wheat,’ David Mamet’s New Play 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z There was wordplay, and farce, and topical satire. Should comedy worry about its shelf life? 2011-03-14T14:30:00Z He somehow achieves the emotional impact of good melodrama and the hectic absurdity of classic farce without ever seeming to exaggerate. | 'The Descendants': ?Descendants,? With George Clooney - Review 2011-11-15T21:00:13Z "The Great" presents the intrigues surrounding Catherine as a complex confection, a lush painting incorporating shadings of farce, comedy, tragedy, and drama. "The Great" is the cheeky post-enlightment balm we've been waiting for 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z “Sister Act” isn’t, certainly, the only conventional convent farce to strike theatrical gold. ‘Sister Act’ brings its roof-raising soul to Seattle 2013-08-15T19:19:13Z Mr. Coburn’s character becomes so burdened with what he learns from the president that he develops his own psychological troubles, which soon spiral into farce. Theodore J. Flicker, Sitcom Creator, Dies at 84 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z But even in an era when we can't seem to get enough of Downton Abbey, Coward's implausible farce outstays its welcome. Relative Values – review 2013-06-21T17:14:13Z But there’s barely a whiz-bang punch line or smoothly executed setup to be found in a movie that longs to be a sparkling bedroom comedy and winds up a tortured, fizz-free farce. Review: ‘She’s Funny That Way’ Offers Tomfoolery Amid the Floodlights 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z But for all the work's profane zing, Jones' farce has an old-fashioned quality. Shakespeare meets the Beatles in lively 'These Paper Bullets!' 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Nugent: “Our old friends, the heiress and the newspaper man, are back again, this time in a furiously unimportant farce called ‘Love Is News’ at the Roxy. Friday File: A Look at the Golden Age for Oscar-Nominated Newspaper Movies 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Our politics became farce and tragedy after decades of harassment by Republican leaders against fairly elected Democratic presidents. ‘Veep’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ Echo Our Politics, as Farce and Tragedy 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Like “An Unfinished Piece,” “Country Life” traipses between tragedy and farce. ‘The Seagull’ Brings Chekhov’s Doleful Comedy to Cinemas 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z For Red Bull Theater, David Ives, a playwright who knows his way around a couplet, adapts an obscure 18th-century French farce about poetry-mad Parisians. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The result is a farce about women’s relationship to male power — how they access it, what they are allowed to do with it, and who else they subjugate along the way. The Playwright Making a Farce of the Patriarchy 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Lazy, mean-spirited, incoherent, infantile and, above all, witless, the farce — which focuses on five 40-something guys in full regression — suggests a hangover from “The Hangover.” | 'Grown Ups': Adam Sandler in Blatant Acts of Naked Regression 2010-06-24T22:53:00Z He is so in control of his material – the unexpected inflection; the telling silences; the gentle ebb and flow of bathos and high farce – that we hang on his every unamplified word. Mike Birbiglia ? review 2012-05-17T17:10:09Z And comedy audiences, too: the 31-year-old is a very companionable standup, who combines the farce of her own feelings of inadequacy with intelligent reflections on the world she so ineptly negotiates. Roisin Conaty 2010-08-29T21:16:00Z But his own execution became a grisly farce when the electric chair failed to deliver the clean death it was supposed to, and witnesses heard him scream and saw him bleed. Mat Collishaw: still sensational 2013-04-26T15:30:00Z Strangely, this frothy backstage farce, about an actor who goes undercover in an attempt to prove that his actress wife has a yen to stray, has never been revived on Broadway. | July 11-17 : July 18 ? 24 2010-07-16T15:05:00Z British comedian Morris dares tell the story of four jihadists whose deadly plans devolve into farce. 2010-01-21T02:12:00Z The story, a trademark mix of laddish farce and harder-edged foreign affairs is, he suggests, pretty much the perfect Vice exclusive. Shane Smith: 'I want to build the next CNN with Vice – it's within my grasp' 2013-03-23T22:24:20Z That said, if Malek actually wins the Oscar for actor in a leading role at Sunday night’s Academy Awards, it’ll be a bummer, just as “Bohemian Rhapsody” winning best picture would be a farce. Perspective | Here’s the problem with ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (and every musical biopic ever made) 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z The farce takes a while to get going, and some of the minor roles are thinly written, but it will be a sad day if this piece of Victorian froth finally disappears from the repertoire. Charley's Aunt – review 2012-10-02T17:36:53Z Her husband wanted to produce the picture, but knew that if his name showed up on the promotional materials, people would assume it was some kind of zany farce. 12 surprising facts about Mel Brooks on his 95th birthday 2021-07-10T04:00:00Z Again, the mass of moviegoers may have wondered if they’d already given at the office for another Doomsday farce, the Seth Rogen This Is the End, two months ago. August Burnout: The Butler Stands While Three New Films Fall 2013-08-25T18:30:45Z The tragic tale of doomed lovers is transformed into glorious farce, including the personifications of Wall and Moonshine, and Bottom as Pyramus dying a hundred histrionic deaths. John Mullan's 10 of the best: plays within plays 2012-05-25T21:55:09Z Much thought and effort has been put into transforming Toole’s beloved book into an exhilarating stage farce. Review: Nick Offerman as a Giant of New Orleans, Resized 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Something has gone badly awry in Michael Boyd's modern-dress revival of Shakespeare's tragedy of passion, politics and performance, which is reduced to farce – a very dull one. Antony and Cleopatra ? review 2010-12-15T22:00:02Z At a festival where the critics are not afraid to boo a film they dislike, "Ismael's Ghosts", which moves from spy thriller to melodrama and verges on farce, seemed to be well received. Cannes festival opens with genre-bending French drama sheltered from 'brutal' critics 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z “Lend Me a Tenor,” by Ken Ludwig, is a classic farce with lots of slamming doors, mistaken identities and precision timing. Stanley Tucci, Director 2010-02-17T18:52:00Z The piece has moderate historical value as an example of British farce in its flaccid state before Joe Orton came along to corrupt it. Dry Rot – review 2012-07-30T17:15:00Z Amateurish country house farce, dusted off to cash in on the recent celebrity of co-star Miranda Hart. This week's new films 2013-03-30T06:00:10Z More tribute than parody, this over-egged farce whips slapstick and cheese into an authentic soufflé of tastelessness. ‘Eurovision Song Contest’ Review: Over the Top and Around the Bend 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z The more I see this play, the more it strikes me as one the finest farces in the English language. The Comedy of Errors 2010-06-30T20:31:00Z I don’t think it’s a fool’s errand to really try to express and explain yourself to your loved ones, but some bleak mornings, I do wake up and think it’s all a farce. "The Death of Dick Long" dares you to love the men who love Nickelback 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z The 88-year-old performer is appearing in the West End for the first time in almost 40 years as medium Madame Arcati in Noel Coward's supernatural farce. Lansbury wows critics in London stage return 2014-03-19T13:54:51Z "I'd say it's more of a farce than a satire," writes Miller in the programme. MPs duck out of The Duck House 2013-12-11T10:59:23Z Since the whole aim of Sean Foley's production is to transform the movie into a slapstick farce, this lack of precision matters. The Ladykillers – review 2013-07-10T18:40:00Z A farce is a gigantic machine, and you're just a part of it. Tilda Swinton, rock star of the art house 2010-06-19T18:01:00Z Among the many memorable scenes — which include moments of high farce, agonized confrontation and linguistic sleuthing — the one I found most remarkable is a tense conclave around a table in a departmental office. Movie Review: ?Footnote,? a Satire and Family Drama by Joseph Cedar 2012-03-08T17:16:01Z It is as though Finnegans Wake has been unselfishly rewritten, with coherent sentences and a story, and it offers a magnificent evocation of totalitarianism, inhumanity and farce. Alan Sillitoe obituary 2010-04-25T14:15:00Z Marx was right about that at least: When history repeats itself, tragedy pops up again as farce. The Real Meaning of the Brexit Debate 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z And yet that’s not insurmountable — good comedy often requires a generous suspension of disbelief, as does farce. Theater Review: ‘Collapse’ at City Center 2013-04-25T12:50:07Z History doesn’t repeat itself, and it’s usually tragedy and farce at the same time. ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ Review: They Fought the Law 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Now he’s back with an outrageous farce about money, sex and guns, which is to say, about America circa now. Review | Finally, a novel that captures the inanity of the Trump era. It isn’t pretty. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Playing the last days of Romanian communism as frenzied farce, Lucian Pintilie’s “The Oak” is set in a world so despoiled a Hieronymus Bosch landscape might seem bucolic by comparison. ‘The Oak’: A Post-Communist Pinwheel 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z “Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul” is a broad farce set in a Southern Baptist megachurch. Sundance is going online, for the second year in a row. Here’s what’s great about that. 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Slack Bay, a Gallic farce, is playing in competition at Cannes. Juliette Binoche: I confronted Spielberg and Scorsese over lack of female leads 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z But Ahmed thought it was a farce, because the teachers would blackball any candidate they considered unsuitable. Riz Ahmed: actor, rapper, ranter 2013-04-27T08:00:00Z Yet even if these things are so, the events leading up to the film's EastEnders-meets-Pulp Fiction climax get closer to farce than demonstrable fact. Ill Manors just wants a little respect for our gangsters 2012-06-06T11:07:56Z In a lot of farce, taboos are tackled. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z Reza, who penned the similar successful comedy “Art,” is better than any other currently practicing farceur at writing about everything and nothing, and finding the sweet spot between credible satire and outrageous farce. Uneasy laughs in 'God of Carnage' 2011-03-15T03:12:35Z This inside-Hollywood farce pokes fun at the modern phenomenon of streaming services and TV networks reviving classic shows. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to HBO, Hulu, Apple TV+ and More in September 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z We’d only just gotten over the tragedy, we weren’t ready for the farce. White House downer: why Hollywood should steer clear of a Trump biopic 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Once Ea’s search for disciples begins, “The Brand New Testament” slips from satire into absurdist farce, loses its sharper edges and becomes merely silly. Review: God Is Alive and Crabby, According to ‘The Brand New Testament’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Such casting adds zest to this already funny farce. Theater Review | 'The Wonder': Random Acts of Comedy, Women Only 2010-03-04T23:03:00Z Accidents of costume are essential to the systemic farce. Goldman Sachs, Patagonia, and the Mysteries of “Business Casual” 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z His prose here is knowingly self-conscious, its over-explications verging on farce. ‘The Pope’s Daughter’ review: Dario Fo’s novel defends the Borgia clan 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z The show’s premise is hardly new to farce. London Theater Journal: Laughing Wall to Wall 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Bean, who had a hit with farce One Man, Two Guvnors, said he wished the Dagenham women could be on stage every night. Arterton praises 'Dagenham ladies' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z I thought it was a farce, and told him so. Read this before you drink wine from a can 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The mock-series spins the conventions and style of the archetypal dating show into farce. Yahoo! stokes Internet flames with "Burning Love" 2012-06-04T18:29:52Z Everybody in this musical, about beached stage actors who crash a small-town dance, worked with an astonishing sense of farce. Best Performances of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z “We choose not to participate in this farce,” said the senate minority leader, Dan Blue of Raleigh. North Carolina blocks local laws on transgender use of bathrooms 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Head to Zoo to see the latest show from the irresistible Little Bulb; Squally Showers is a fantastical balletic farce. Edinburgh fringe 2013: my top tips 2013-06-06T15:18:28Z “In a weird way,” Mr. Norcott said, “the sense of farce is something that brings us together.” Brexit Is Happening. You May as Well Laugh About It. 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z This farce started with them accusing Nabil of somehow being involved in the murder of Juliano, then they accused him of terror activities, and now it's something else. West Bank Freedom theatre director on hunger strike 2012-07-11T12:49:57Z Accomplishing that in a way that isn’t just depressing or infuriating involves turning the profession and the time period into a raucous combination of pageant and farce. Review: Rival Brothel Owners Square Off in Hulu’s ‘Harlots’ 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Goofball farce and existential despair are by no means incompatible in this antic world. Review: Sam Shepard’s ‘Simpatico,’ Cut Loose and Roaming Wild 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Jake Heggie’s latest opera, “Great Scott,” given its West Coast premiere by San Diego Opera on Saturday night, is a farce about the opera world. 'Great Scott,' an opera about opera, shows what makes Jake Heggie so popular 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z If we roll with Karl Marx’s famous dictum that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy and the second time as farce, I guess the third time around it becomes a Michael Bay movie. Michael Bay’s “apolitical” Benghazi movie: Every kind of American delusion and stupidity in one package! 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z But packed into the romantic urbane farce of “On the Town” are the spirituality of “Jeremiah” and the dance and blues of “Fancy Free.” Bernstein by the Bay: S.F. Symphony brilliantly delivers 'On the Town' 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z But far more than, say, “Great Britain” — Richard Bean’s London hit farce about the News International phone-hacking scandals — “Gloria” allows us to glimpse the real, familiar, fallible human beings beneath the satirical gargoyles. Review: ‘Gloria,’ at the Vineyard Theater, Looks at a Toxic Workplace 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z “Play” is a willfully crude descendant of Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off,” the greatest of all backstage farces. Review: ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ Upends a Whodunit 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Snowed Inn Innkeepers and guests are trapped in a Colorado hotel in David Ewing’s new farce. L.A. theater openings, Dec. 4-11: 'Complete Works – Table Top Shakespeare' and more 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z This is the Saving Private Ryan beach invasion, played the second time as tragic farce… REVIEW: Edge of Tomorrow: Being Tom Cruise, Forever 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Among the genres traversed are farce, adventure, social realism, puppetry, Japanese drama and YouTube documentary. Review: ‘A Room in India’ Overflows With Astonishing Visions 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z What could have been a cutting satirical farce about domineering mothers and emasculated sons is a mildly funny, feel-good love story in which Mom’s sensible advice helps turn around her nerdy son’s foundering career. Movie Review: ‘The Guilt Trip,’ With Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen 2012-12-18T18:30:08Z The banking system, the preserve of ancient old men shouting at each other across marble hallways, is a farce and a confidence trick. Mary Poppins: not sugary, but sharp and subversive – on the page and the screen 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Was “Grease” intended as a farce meant to delight people old enough to appreciate a rough facsimile of American high school life before the Vietnam War era? Perspective | Olivia Newton-John, the pop angel who guided us to the forbidden zone 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Her breakthrough was Edward Chodorov’s farce centered on a psychoanalyst, “Oh, Men! Oh, Women!” Anne Jackson, theater stalwart who teamed onstage with husband Eli Wallach, dies at 90 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Warner will respond with “The Campaign,” a farce about a North Carolina political contest, on Aug. 10. ‘People Like Us’ and Other Summer Movies in Real-World Settings 2012-06-12T22:23:28Z Advertisement Venice plays a role in a larger drama — or farce, if you prefer. Venice Film Festival Offers a Chance to Watch Suffering, Then to Quaff Champagne 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Parts of Lindsay Posner's production felt genuinely disturbing, because the characters – a theatre company touring a bedroom farce round the UK – seem so desperate to keep going, even as their professional and personal circumstances unravel. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z A young man attempts to stage the classic ballet in a rest home in this holiday farce. L.A. theater listings, Nov. 29-Dec. 6: 'Guys and Dolls' and more 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z In most productions, the trial flits along like farce, with the audience as eager to see it through as Aunt Eller, so we can get to the happy ending. Two Broadway Shows Dismantle the American Myth 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” tidily wraps serial murder into an operetta packet with a big ribbon of farce. Tony winner ‘Gentleman’s Guide’ is good but not a killer 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The industrial narrative of the opening ceremony that Danny Boyle dramatised with his dark satanic mills is played out across the Olympic Park, but this time as farce. What were the highs and lows of your Olympic Park experience? 2012-08-08T15:16:58Z But if a black gay drag queen had no chance at victory, Blakk’s campaign was more than a merry farce. Review: In ‘Ms. Blakk for President,’ a Winning Losing Campaign 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z Thanks to his drama teacher and a fellow student, he was persuaded to take the role of Frederick Fellowes, a nosebleed-prone actor who beats himself up when things go amiss, in the farce “Noises Off.” Theater: Jim Parsons Prepares for His Lead Role in ‘Harvey’ 2012-05-23T15:00:21Z What we admire in great farce is the ingenuity and precision of the writing, the speed and virtuosity of the playing and the conviction that something serious is at stake for the characters. Run for Your Wife – review 2013-02-17T00:05:37Z The plot’s whodunit structure is a surefire farce setup, but given the state of U.S. affairs, the production could have used a stronger political backbone. ‘Clue’ Review: A Whodunit That Looks a Lot Like a Board Game 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z And all would be well, or could be well, the gothic farce of Sutpen’s dream redeemed with those words, remade into a hopeful or at least not-hope-denying human story. Riff: How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself 2012-06-30T04:00:04Z It turns out that this isn’t really tragedy or farce, grand opera or opera buffa: it’s corporate promotion. ‘House of Gucci’ Review: Murder, Italian-Style 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The fate of the poor young kitchen worker afflicted by a toothache is the most potent, but it is also the most preposterously comic: a tragedy written as farce. Theater Review: ‘The Golden Dragon,’ by Roland Schimmelpfennig 2013-05-21T21:38:22Z This dynamic is supposed to be cringe-funny, but over the course of an hour and a half, this staid farce proves otherwise. ‘The End of Sex’ Review: When Domesticity Kills the Mood 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Q. Julie the comedy was sort of old school farce, playing on cultural differences, but also felt modern. Julie Delpy, Chris Rock talk "2 Days in New York" 2012-01-26T13:43:29Z The season will conclude in the spring with another farce, “The Heir Apparent,” which Mr. Ives has adapted from the play by Jean-Francois Regnard about a young man trying to finagle a large inheritance. ArtsBeat: Patinkin Collaborating With Taylor Mac on ‘Apocalyptic Vaudeville’ for Classic Stage 2013-06-17T16:18:05Z We all need a little more French farce in our lives given the state of the world. Review: ‘The Dingdong’ Offers Frothy Lingerie and Frisky Behavior 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z The trial was a farce and Paco was sentenced to death. The Crimson Petal and the White and Innocent! Paco & the Struggle for Justice: TV review 2011-04-07T07:00:00Z “This is a total farce, it’s a comedic setup and to make the connection is I think just ridiculous.” 'Ninja Turtles' tops 'Expendables 3,' 'Let's Be Cops' at box office 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z A Flea in Her Ear David Ives' adaptation of Feydeau's classic French farce about a woman who suspects her husband of infidelity. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 6-13: 'American Falls' and more 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Things veer toward different genres — a little bit ghost story, a little bit Hollywood farce — in the third episode. Review | ‘The Romanoffs’ is a lavish-but-empty return to TV from Matthew Weiner 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z But the deformed-guy-might-take-over plot also marks the point at which Downton turned from a soap opera that held a small allegiance to reality into something approaching high farce. Downton Abbey Watch: The Ballad of Sad Lady Edith 2012-02-06T14:25:18Z But the dalliances and duplicities of the movie’s sex farce are inextricable from its vision of the French publishing industry. “Non-Fiction,” Reviewed: A Vacuum-Sealed View of France’s Culturati 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z Washer/Dryer East West Players presents the world premiere of Nandita Shenoy’s farce about a newlywed couple, their neighbors and others in a New York apartment building. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 15-22: 'End of the Rainbow' and more 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Beckett’s ruthlessly nihilistic “geriatric farce,” “Happy Days,” is unconsolingly arid but, perhaps, necessarily corrective. What Matters in Old Age: Rereading, Reconsidering and Reassessing 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z At Yale, I played Hysterium in one of his early hits, the Borscht Belt musical farce “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.” Perspective | There will never be another Stephen Sondheim 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z When Wall-E finds himself aboard Willard’s space colony, the lament expands into farce. My Favorite Summer Blockbuster 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z And, boy, is there plenty to ogle at in this naughty farce. Epigrams and clothes fly in Taper's 'What the Butler Saw' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z “The more I started to think about these women, the farce started to write itself.” Coming to Broadway This Spring: A Farce About a Problem President 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z On one level “Creditors” isn’t so far from the classic French farce of infidelity. | 'Creditors': Deconstructing Marriage: Strindberg at Harvey Theater 2010-04-21T22:25:00Z The rude farce "Death at a Funeral" treats Brooks' description as a mission statement. "Death at a Funeral": Crude, dumb -- and hilarious 2010-04-16T13:01:00Z He recalled Thornton's ability to hold his ground in the most trying circumstances, citing an instance in the 1993 run of his West End farce It Runs in the Family. Frank Thornton obituary 2013-03-18T12:54:23Z It’s a thoughtful drama and a hilarious farce, a play popping with rhymed couplets and earthy f-bombs. Review | Having it all as the first female playwright in ‘Or,’ 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Contrivance is at the heart of farce — as it’s also been at the heart of most of this author’s work — and that is certainly the case here. Books of The Times: ‘Skios’ by Michael Frayn 2012-06-27T21:35:39Z Low farce is a high calling, and wittier examples such as Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off” do more with wee things like, say, character and story. Review | ‘Play That Goes Wrong’ breaks a leg (plus a few noses, noggins and funny bones) 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z But the premise at least sets up a farce that surpasses “The Hangover” in gleeful crudeness and profanity. | 'The Change-Up': About That Wish: What if It Came True? 2011-08-04T21:39:27Z The Importance of Being Earnest An all-female cast performs Oscar Wilde’s classic romantic farce. L.A. theater openings, Aug. 28-Sept. 4: 'The Importance of Being Earnest' and more 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z And, although farce is sometimes viewed as inherently silly and flimsy, the plot of The Painkiller turns on homicide and suicide. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z His performance elevates an ominous, downbeat reflection on American decline and runaway technology into a subdued absurdist farce with dark geopolitical undercurrents. Review: ‘A Hologram for the King’ Is Elevated by Tom Hanks’s Portrayal of an American Everyman 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z There’s a line of Marx’s I love from “The 18th Brumaire Of Louis Napoleon”: “First time tragedy, second time farce.” When we all smelled like teen spirit 2013-04-21T19:00:00Z A scene of farce gets the blood flowing before the focus returns to the ghosts and the pace slows to a crawl. Review: ‘Ghosts’ of the Guillotine Reunite at Versailles 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Even by Russian standards, the trial has been roundly mocked as a farce, complete with barking dogs, a judge who feigned deafness when the defense objected, and denouncements of feminism as a “mortal sin.” In New York, a Show of Solidarity for Russian Punk Band 2012-08-17T06:21:35Z Through farce and fury, it turns an acid gaze on our environmental myopia and emotional constipation. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z “We all got it like a revolving door,” said the actress and comedian Rachel Dratch, now a Tony nominee for her portrayal of a tightly wound presidential aide in that farce, which is called “POTUS.” The Twisting Trail to the Tonys: ‘Can You Believe That We’re Here?’ 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Some of that is because the show’s humor is so surreal, buoyant, and loose—an effortless sort of screwball comedy that rolls from farce to farce with enthusiasm. “Broad City”’s radical potty humor: The intimate truths inside Abbi and Ilana’s screwball comedy 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Support for this theory may come from the fact that farce was hugely popular around the time of the Great Depression in the 1930s. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z "I associate the instrumental with farce, with madcap high jinks," he said, "And I associate farce and madcap high jinks, sometimes, with failure." Why "Yakety Sax" makes anything funny and has morphed into the soundtrack of political failure 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z It’s Latino Theater Company satire disguised as farce masquerading as a potboiler. 5 picks: What's on our radar for art, theater, music and more 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z The thing had all the makings of a farce, but the end was tragic. The Murders That Touched Off Ireland’s Bloody Campaign for Self-Rule 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z Subtle matters of accent and style are perhaps the toughest test for a wholly American cast romping through this unmistakably English material, based on the hugely popular 1892 farce “Charley’s Aunt,” by Brandon Thomas. | 'Where?s Charley?': A Few Wacky Victorians in Love 2011-03-18T22:54:37Z This list lists toward bleak comedy, which may suggest an alignment of current personal tastes, prevailing national mood, and a televisual trend of mining tragedy for farce. My Favorite TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z The real drama takes place behind the scenes during the performance of a dreadful farce call Nothing On by Robin Housemonger. John Mullan's 10 of the best: plays within plays 2012-05-25T21:55:09Z Along the way, Sturges and Sullivan — with the help of Veronica Lake as “the Girl” — swerve into romance and farce before stumbling back onto the path of sincerity. What I Learned About Democracy From the Movies 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z We think the show perpetuates dangerous stereotypes by diminishing an entire region into a farce through the gross misrepresentations that feed into a narrative of political propaganda. 'Homeland is racist': artists sneak subversive graffiti on to TV show 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z To progressives, this must have seemed like tragedy masquerading as farce. First GOP debate was more like a reality TV show 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z The subsequent arrest of four of its members is inevitable but soon becomes a farce of misinterpretations. Review | Surveillance, hacking, government overreach: ‘Overthrow’ tackles modern fears 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z It’s a crucial story, one that sets up the entire farce. | 'The Comedy of Errors': A Farce With Two of a Kind 2011-04-12T21:30:50Z For “Don’t Dress for Dinner,” a revival of a wheezy French sex farce by Marc Camoletti that opened on Broadway on Thursday night at the American Airlines Theater. Theater Review: ?Don?t Dress for Dinner? at American Airlines Theater 2012-04-27T02:00:01Z “It would be a farce if we were shut out on the stairs.” Book Excerpt: ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Anderson's latest, "The Grand Budapest Hotel," digs deeper, ruminating on nostalgia and the power of farce in the face of facism. Oscar race shapes up for best director, cinematography nominees 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Watching the Turners, I thought about the scam the Kim family pulls in Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” and how that film ingeniously reconsiders class warfare as nightmare farce. ‘Sorry We Missed You’ Review: The Human Toll of That One-Click Buy 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Sometimes the movie swerves toward farce, sometimes into the zone of smiley family comedy and at other times into full-on weepiness. Movie Review: ‘Playing for Keeps,’ by Gabriele Muccino 2012-12-06T23:03:59Z In “The Rose and the Ring,” William Makepeace Thackeray presents a fairy tale farce, half Christmas pantomime, half screwball comedy, its plot roughly that of “Hamlet” played for laughs. Review | What we all could use right now: Tales of magic, wonder and the triumph of goodness 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z In the 20th century, film, theater and television tell the same story, as comedy, tragedy, thriller and farce. Is Our Art Equal to the Challenges of Our Times? 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z Gwen can parrot the salty language of those classic sea tales, but when she tries to launch her own adventure, she slips from farce to bloodbath, from J.M. From the ‘Lemony ’ author, an adult novel of upper-middle-class despair 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z It is vital not to turn this perfectly aerated romance into farce. The Barber of Seville; Emerson Quartet – review 2013-03-03T00:06:19Z But there’s not much else going on — the satire is soft and scattershot, and the elements of farce and physical comedy are routine. Review: On ‘Blunt Talk,’ Patrick Stewart Is Far From Home and Caught With His Pants Down 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Writer/director David O. Russell’s black comic farce is as brilliant as it is hysterically funny. Is your family dysfunctional, just not in a funny way? The 10 best family comedies 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z It’s a sometimes droll, sometimes frenetic farce in which the four band members play versions of themselves, goofing off, running from screaming fans and such. At 50, a Debut Keeps 4 Guys Young 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z And I don’t mean just the pastry-in-the-face, drinks-down-the-shirt-front sort of antics practiced so joyously in the Broadway-bound farce “One Man, Two Guvnors” and the zippy new National Theater production of Shakespeare’s “Comedy of Errors.” | London Theater Journal: Revenge Served Sticky, and Cleanly Staged Comedy 2012-02-07T16:07:11Z In some ways, turning the movie “Titanic” into a farce about climate change makes a lot of narrative sense. A Queer Punk Vaudevillian’s Surreal Take on ‘Titanic’ 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z The first season is a much rawer project, an unsettling farce about guilt and grief that is challenging to both TV conventions and the viewer. I Love Top Ten Lists 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z It may have been in pursuit of farce, not fact, but it gave credence to the people who say “The Daily Show” is journalistic, not just satiric. Jon Stewart of ?The Daily Show? Takes On Fox News 2010-04-23T22:21:00Z That farce was a success, with outlandish physical comedy that led to a Tony Award for best set. British Comedy ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ Plans Spring Broadway Bow 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z “And for us to accept that they can be figures of fun, just in the same way as a farce about straight people would be.” ‘Vicious’ on PBS Follows Two Gay Characters 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z The title is bad enough, but it’s all downhill from there in the revolting Belgian farce “Mother Schmuckers.” ‘Mother Schmuckers’ Review: Dumber and Dumbest 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z But the escalating silliness of her response, climaxing as the queen and princess traded barbs over the clutched dagger until Alicent finally drew blood, tipped the drama into farce. ‘House of the Dragon’ Season 1, Episode 7 Recap: An Ugly Game 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z It promises to be a mad farce from a company that always manages to produce some of the best Shakespeare of the year. This week's new theatre 2011-03-19T00:06:42Z In any case many of them would have registered the allusion to Giorgione’s picnic scene, except that Manet replaced pastoral poetry with a modern-dress farce, its focus drifting purposely in and out. Manet?s Reflections of Paris at a Cultural Peak 2011-05-16T13:33:21Z Racism is tragic but it is also a farce. The Performance of Racial Passing 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Ashley’s staging follows suit, going for grandeur but, in its haste, reaching only the clamminess of farce. ‘Diana, the Musical’ Review: Exploiting the People’s Princess 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z In addition to Hammami, Bergen provides many examples of this phenomenon, which often appears like an especially gruesome farce. What drives Americans to join the jihad? The book 'United States of Jihad' explains 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z This is history as farce, accompanied by calliopes and ragtime; the passage of the 18th Amendment is finally marked by the ringing of a strongman’s bell, as at a carnival. Exhibition Review: ‘American Spirits’ at the National Constitution Center 2012-10-18T22:30:49Z Together, they bathe the cheeky farce in a vivacious, sensual glow. ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’: There’s life in the warhorse yet 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Our politics may be farce fodder for those making money off of it but it is nothing but tragedy for all of us whose daily lives are impacted... ‘Veep’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ Echo Our Politics, as Farce and Tragedy 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Times that "This is an overextended sitcom that would like to become a farce but settles instead for some hoary Neil Simon middle ground." 'Fish in the Dark,' with Larry David, gets mixed reviews on Broadway 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z “Events began to speed up, like the final scenes of an elaborate Broadway farce.” ‘King Richard’ Finds Fresh Drama in Watergate 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z I’ve always tried to make audiences laugh as much as possible, so farce is my favorite genre, and there’s not much room psychological complexity there. John Cleese Intends to Have His Unread Books Buried With Him 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Much of The Scheme plays as a laughable farce – the hapless FBI investigation stages one meeting on a yacht with popped bottles of champagne, another in an extravagant Vegas casino suite. The Scheme: the crazy untold story of bribery, business and basketball 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z The only reason I can think of to watch Vivi Friedman’s flat, satirical farce “The Family Tree” — and it’s not a good enough reason — is the opportunity to play a game of spot the semi-star. | 'The Family Tree': ?The Family Tree? Directed by Vivi Friedman - Review 2011-08-25T22:43:48Z The screening turns into a mild farce, but it stirs something in Salvador, lighting a small fire. ‘Pain and Glory’ Review: Almodóvar’s Dazzling Art of Self-Creation 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z At the age of 91 I can do without farce. R.I.P. Marvin Miller, baseball’s FDR 2012-11-28T17:26:00Z “For me the joy of it is the strangeness of the way life can tip into farce and horror at the same moment. These are characters in conflict with themselves and the world.” For Hugh Grant, a Smaller Screen Brings a More Complex Role 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z This new version by Hugh Osborne is performed as a physical theatre farce by a cast of four. This week's new theatre 2011-03-05T00:07:36Z It’s brave to voyage that way after launching with farce — but the climate change is awfully sharp. Kiss me again, and again, and again, and . . . 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The ludicrous negotiation between Kitty and Kurt threatens to turn “Vicuña” into a political farce every bit as topsy-turvy as David Mamet’s “November.” Looking for the lighter side to a nasty election? Playwright Jon Robin Baitz delivers it in 'Vicuña' 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z This shallow, agreeably chipper comedy steers a careful middle ground between sentimentality and farce. Movie Review: Jane Fonda in Stéphane Robelin’s ‘All Together’ 2012-10-19T00:08:53Z Until then, “A Comedy of Tenors” is the kind of farce that grunts and groans as it gets its improbabilities off the ground. Review | Can Beppo the bellhop sing? Olney’s ‘A Comedy of Tenors’ is more frenzy than finesse. 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The Infidel walks a tricky line between topicality and good, old-fashioned British farce. David Baddiel 2010-03-28T00:10:00Z “The Tubs” was pure farce, a zany escapade in a gay bathhouse, and an unburdening for an audience wound up tightly in Watergate. Perspective | With Terrence McNally’s death, the theater has lost a voice of consummate wit and passion 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z It's lumpen tragedy amped up to farce level, but with an implicit warning for their black listeners: life's not fair to the underclass. Remembering Jerry Leiber, the 'Hound Dog' Poet of Rock 'n' Roll 2011-08-24T06:10:00Z The Importance of Being Earnest Actors clad only in Victorian-era undergarments perform Oscar Wilde’s classic romantic farce. L.A. theater openings, July 24-31: 'Baby Doll' and more 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z But he forgot to add, commented Karl Marx, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. London burning: history just went sci-fi 2011-08-08T11:46:42Z The Belarussian legal system is a farce, and no conviction bears a confident relationship to culpability for any crime – unless it is to give offence to the autocratic president, Alexander Lukashenko. Clive Stafford Smith: Belarus Free Theatre risk life and death 2013-06-10T11:11:56Z Past Time For its first production in its new home, Sacred Fools Theatre presents the world premiere of Padraic Duffy's farce about a man who enlists his grandfather in a romantic scheme; with French Stewart. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 14-21: 'Past Time,' 'Pocatello' and more 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Coming up next, on April 7, is the Pierre Beaumarchais farce, “The Barber of Seville.” New on Seattle stages: ‘Third,’ ‘Mom Baby God’ 2014-02-27T22:26:06Z History repeats itself, but always as tragedy in Wallander, never as farce. TV review: Wallander; Shakespeare Uncovered; Henry IV Part 1 2012-07-08T21:35:01Z The tragic farce was this: Cathryn Alpert and her husband had never met Bowman, and were coming to New York on other business and had planned a rendezvous. David Bowman and the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z English regional theatre in the late 1950s was still dominated by the Edwardian values of the West End, the star system and the cosy conventions of the French-windows farce. Peter Cheeseman obituary 2010-04-29T17:57:00Z Each hour has a drag to it, one that feels hypnotically weird and is interrupted by spasmodic bursts of violence and disarming farce. Pledging allegiance to Amazon’s enigmatic “Patriot” may be worth it, but it isn’t an easy mission 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z He wanted to become a basketball star, but changed his mind when he played the title role in “Charley’s Aunt,” a venerable old farce in which a young man disguises himself as a woman. Gene Saks, Tony Winner and Neil Simon Director, Dies at 93 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z Michell awkwardly tries to balance both the farce of cultural clashes and the jealous tension that arises as Daisy begins to understand that she's not the president's only paramour. Capsule reviews of new movie releases 2012-12-06T00:16:06Z But when it delivers, this story of a third-rate travelling troupe's attempt to stage an appallingly unfunny farce is theatrical bliss, with its catalogue of missed cues, falling scenery, and backstage squabbles. This week's new theatre 2013-03-23T06:00:18Z Imagine what it was like to be an American during the Civil War, the Great Depression, or even that post-Revolutionary period when everything seemed to be degenerating into a squalid, squabbling farce. George Packer: Don’t CEOs have any shame? 2013-05-26T18:00:00Z It may simply be the hyper-exact timing required of such proceedings, or perhaps it’s that farce must never let slip the effort involved if the comic soufflé is to rise. Theater Review: Slamming Doore, Heavy Sledding 2011-01-11T13:00:02Z It is murderously difficult to write a successful musical farce, and this one succeeds. Tony Award Predictions: Readers (and Boldface Names) Weigh In 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z But shorn of the language that breathes life into them, Shakespeare’s characters are reduced to, well, Twiggy-thin types whose interaction only brings laughs when it descends into lowdown farce. Theater Review: ‘These Paper Bullets!’ Opens at Yale Rep 2014-03-27T21:56:49Z Pfeiffer delivers a sly, elegant performance as Frances, which provides the chief pleasure of Azazel Jacobs' film, a melancholy farce adapted by Patrick DeWitt from his novel of the same name. Michelle Pfeiffer brings sly elegance to the peculiar but charming "French Exit" 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z From dating apps to the blurred lines of defining a relationship, "Man Seeking Woman" uses farce to sometimes parody and sometimes heighten the intricacies of modern-day dating. 'Man Seeking Woman' navigates 'minefield' of Millennial dating 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Their plays are plot-driven family melodramas about delusions and affairs of the heart, tragedies played at such a fever pitch that they spill into farce. The Amoralists Ready a New Play, ?Amerissiah? 2010-06-05T02:03:00Z Then he realized that the farce was being misconstrued as fact. Jazz’s Year of Complaint, Citing ‘Whiplash’ and The New Yorker 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Walker recently got his big acting break, landing a starring role in the Off Broadway version of “The Play That Goes Wrong,” a farce that recently reopened after a successful run on Broadway. Tickling Worms in the Lab, Tickling Funny Bones Onstage 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z But what keeps the show from degenerating into farce, Ms. Plimpton said, is that “any sort of off-kilter darkness is earned because of the relationship of the characters, and how much they love each other.” When Hope Is a Thing With Diapers 2010-09-17T18:28:00Z His self-deluded pursuit of harmless fun invariably ended in farce or disaster. A Man of Parts by David Lodge ? review 2011-04-10T02:30:01Z Frantic and flagrantly formulaic, this forced farce about a sham engagement sacrifices plot credibility and character motivation for stale humor and cheap setups. 'One Small Hitch' an overly familiar rom-com 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Elizabeth Thomson, an attorney for Palace Entertainment Group, told The Detroit News the lawsuit is a "farce." Silverdome owners seek $750K in unpaid rent 2010-10-15T13:44:00Z The farce is never funnier than when the characters get caught in the confusion and sputter, because what else can they do? Review | A Greek-set ‘Comedy of Errors’ adds songs to the slapstick 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z But satire on racial snobbery also blends with low farce when the preacher and his prudish wife inadvertently stumble upon their son's copy of The Joy of Sex. One Monkey Don't Stop No Show – review 2013-01-18T13:41:53Z This being France, farce is never far as well. ‘Call My Agent!’ Puts a Human Spin on Show Business 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z As a narrator, Eli is a casual philosopher who takes in the glory and consequence of the smallest quotidian details, and his acute observations are often refracted through his singular lens of farce and surrealism. Review | ‘Boy Swallows Universe’ is a high-stakes coming-of-age story 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z The long-running farce about a murder in a beauty parlor will begin performances Off Broadway on Oct. 22nd at Stage 4 at New World Stages, with an official opening of Nov. 11. "Shear Madness" Opening in New York for the First Time 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z In a sham farce of the democratic process, she finds out her fate through bell tower gongs. "Good, honest folks": 20 years later, controversial "Dogville" has become frightening prophecy 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z “Roadkill” has elements of political satire and conspiracy thriller, but its dominant mode is a kind of melancholy, slow-moving farce. Review: Hugh Laurie Plays a Politician Trying to Avoid Cancellation 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Should we read the last rites for farce as a living stage genre? Feeling the farce 2010-12-15T13:01:43Z Nor was there room for popular farce The Hangover, despite it being named best comedy at the Golden Globes last month. 2010-02-02T16:31:00Z Now, at 28, she is building a notable body of work, and her farce is being lifted straight to Broadway without an out-of-town tryout. The Playwright Making a Farce of the Patriarchy 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z The movie revolves around two of those jobs, tragedies that are also farces. The Goofball Criminals of Paul Schrader’s “Dog Eat Dog” 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z Neither was without humour, but a trio of classic farces would be insufferable. Michael Billington on marathon-length theatre 2012-07-01T20:30:01Z Corden’s deliriously funny “One Man, Two Guvnors” airs Friday, a slapstick farce about a simpleminded guy who juggles errands for two underworld bosses in an English seaside town in the 1960s. James Corden, Lea Salonga return to happier theatrical days 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z But corona comedy goes even further than simply pointing to the folly, farce, and failures of official responses like those of the Trump team. How late night comedy shows are making sense of absurd and reckless coronavirus responses 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z Yet there are few traces of that satirical bite in "One Slight Hitch," a nostalgic and belabored farce that brings to mind Neil Simon comedies, "The Philadelphia Story" and "Father of the Bride." Lewis Black's comedy 'One Slight Hitch' lacks his signature bite 2012-06-18T17:32:03Z It’s like “The Americans” by way of “Mallrats,” with intrigue, farce and a jagged cut of betrayal. ‘Impeachment’ Review: A She Said, She Said Situation 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z As in many a classic farce, semi-scandalous encounters and near trysts can’t shatter the bourgeois marriage at the play’s core; they even strengthen it. Review: ‘The Dingdong’ Offers Frothy Lingerie and Frisky Behavior 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z While that lends the narrative a tone of farce, Mountford couldn't be more serious about unveiling the way multinational corporate maneuvers often "reside in the gray areas of legality." In first novel, Seattle's Peter Mountford takes a dazzling trip to Bolivia 2011-04-13T21:36:04Z Hay Fever Theatre Palisades presents Nöel Coward's classic farce about a fractious theatrical family. L.A. theater openings, Jan. 10-17: '1984' and more 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Mr. Lloyd created with David Croft — was a World War II farce, filled with sexual innuendo, slapstick gags and overwrought accents, in which factions of British, French and Germans clashed in a small French cafe. Jeremy Lloyd, Creator of British TV Comedies, Dies at 84 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Nothing dispels the feeling that Scientology was a horror and farce that was dwindling in advance of this book. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood & the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright – review 2013-01-30T12:00:02Z The ensemble is stagelike and feels a little like a Shakespeare tragedy, or a Beckett farce, primarily because of the startled expression in the main figure’s face. A Singular American Painter and His Perennially Disregarded Wife 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Dismiss, if you will, the jauntiness required to hold together energetic kids' farces such as The Parent Trap, Freaky Friday or Herbie Fully Loaded – that's your choice. It's not too late, Lindsay 2010-07-07T19:00:00Z When farce is brilliantly done," she says, "what happens is pretty radical. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z This month the Monaco royal family weighed in, calling the film a "farce". Cannes to open with glitz, glamour and dash of scandal 2014-05-11T10:47:57Z Even through his knottiest lyrics, he’s been trying to convince us that the American Dream is a farce for more than half a century. Review | Bob Dylan holds a mirror up to America and sees himself 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Lunging wildly between satirical farce and teary sentimentality, the movie follows the misadventures of a ragtag symphony orchestra that travels from Moscow to Paris under false pretenses. | 'The Concert': Radu Mihaileanu?s Comedy Focuses on Zany Orchestra 2010-07-29T21:15:00Z There are certainly laughs to be harvested from this period farce set in 1880s London and “based on true events — really,” according to the film’s winking tag line. Movie Review : ?Hysteria,? With Hugh Dancy and Maggie Gyllenhaal 2012-05-17T22:42:25Z In 1958, the couple starred in the Broadway farce “Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?,” which ran for 26 weeks. Mary Healy, Actress and Singer, Dies at 96 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z The movie is built like an escalating farce, rich in visual gags and sustained by machine-gun dialogue worthy of the best screwball comedies — albeit a lot blunter. The Roles Are L.G.B.T.Q., but the Movies Are Not About Self-Discovery 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Despite such surreal, even comical moments, “Rosewater” is neither farce nor satire. Jon Stewart, now a feature film director with ‘Rosewater,’ contemplates what’s next But without overstressing the point, Mr. Eyre and company make a case for romantic farce as the flip side of romantic tragedy. Theater Review: Kim Cattrall Stars in ?Private Lives? - Review 2011-11-18T03:02:49Z This "Volpone" is quite a merry farce, and another triumphant classic revival by Red Bull Theater. Review: 'Volpone or The Fox' a robust, merry farce 2012-12-10T04:01:05Z For too long, though, the merry madness of old school farce eludes the show’s eager grasp. Review | Can Beppo the bellhop sing? Olney’s ‘A Comedy of Tenors’ is more frenzy than finesse. 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The venerable farce about a murder in a hair salon took the summer off for the first time since 1987. Local man proved to his parents he could make the big leap to being a performer 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z The opening credits call it a “dramatic fantasy,” but it is not simply drama, farce or tragedy. What Makes a French Comedy One of the Greatest Films of All Time? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Not much trace of the calligraphic style remains in this broad and brightly colored sex farce, as if Lattuada were suggesting that cruder times call for cruder technique. DVD: A Version of Gogol?s Short Story ?The Overcoat? on DVD 2012-01-13T18:02:55Z But it’s also a reminder of how rare it is to find this kind of sophisticated farce in movie theaters. Television Review: ‘Clear History,’ Starring Larry David, on HBO 2013-08-09T21:51:47Z But so much of the play is so quick and so quippy and so very near farce that more serious discussions of rights and responsibilities don’t land. Review: ‘Perfect Arrangement,’ a Comic Tale of Closeted Lives 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z Arguably a farce — though the playwright, Sandy Rustin, rejects that term, which to her suggests stock characters and clowning — “The Cottage” is a feminist twist on witty British comedies in the Noël Coward mold. How to Squeeze a Feminist Farce Into an English Country House 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Lee is astonishing in the movie, bringing gravitas, intrigue and a touch of black comedy to a role that could easily have descended into farce. Christopher Lee 1922-2015: an appreciation by Mark Kermode 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Linehan said the action would be kept within the house and would be "more of a farce" than the original. Linehan puts Ladykillers on stage 2011-06-06T08:28:01Z This week: A Golden State-themed makeover of a Shakespearean fantasy, an ancient Greek tragedy with a gospel twist, and a new adaptation of a classic French farce. L.A. theater openings, June 14-21: 'California: The Tempest' and more 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z But farce might be the hardest genre to pull off because the reality of U.S.-Cuba relations is often so quirky. Change in U.S. policy toward Cuba dismantles an artifact of the Cold War 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Evidently, carefree farce is as much in fashion as Ms. Morgan’s labored sentimentality. Critic?s Notebook: London Theater Journal: It's About Time 2012-02-02T15:38:37Z I’m not exactly sure when it developed, but I’ve come to realize I have a pretty serious allergy to farce. Theater Review: ?Don?t Dress for Dinner? at American Airlines Theater 2012-04-27T02:00:01Z It presents deadly action as slow-boiling farce and mixes dark satire with a melancholy, blissed-out comic fantasy of fathers and sons bonding over money drops and assassinations. Reviews: Amazon Pilots Include a Revolt and the Supernatural 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z It’s a wrathful show, one that unrepentantly sacrifices the knockabout farce that theatergoers may be expecting from Molière’s famed 17th-century play exposing a religious faker. Taking on a fanatic with zeal in Molière’s ‘Tartuffe’ 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Yet Shannon’s halting, withdrawn presence in Michael Maren’s “A Little White Lie,” an otherwise atrocious literary farce, burns an unpredictable black hole in the movie’s froth of clichéd exchanges and corny musical cues. ‘A Little White Lie’ Review: The Not-So-Great Pretender 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Talk Is Cheap, Unless, of Course, It’s Dirty The enterprising New York women who establish a flourishing phone sex business in the boundary-breaking farce “For a Good Time, Call ...” know how to talk the talk. Movie Review: ‘For a Good Time, Call...’ Is a Romp About Phone Sex 2012-08-30T22:21:53Z Haunted House Party, A Roman Comedy A slave schemes to protect his profligate young master from a reckoning in Troubadour Theater Company’s reimagining of Plautus’ ancient farce “Mostellaria.” L.A. theater openings, Sept. 4-11: Patti LuPone and more 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z But then again this is a show about failure, and there's a touch of Michael Frayn's backstage farce Noises Off in the scenario, in which the company's attempts to stage a show are constantly compromised. Flown – review 2013-06-07T17:40:07Z With his latest novel, “Skios,” Mr. Frayn tries to translate farce from the theater to the page — with somewhat mixed results. Books of The Times: ‘Skios’ by Michael Frayn 2012-06-27T21:35:39Z That the role is allotted to a grown woman only increases the opportunities for sophisticated humor and low farce. Review: In the Met’s ‘Figaro,’ a Scene Stealer in Her Element 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z But instead of going in the direction of noisy farce, it’s dreamy and steeped in melancholy, with a hint of the charm of the Ealing films and the great Scottish comedies of Bill Forsyth. Review: ‘Detectorists’ on BBC and Acorntv Hope to Unearth a Fortune 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z Ozon, best known for his colourful French farces and disorientating thrillers, said he wanted to tackle one of society’s darkest moments in order to ensure that clerical child abuse is “punished and never repeated”. Film about clerical child abuse opens in French cinemas 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z Most war stories are tragic; this one sounds like a farce. 'I don’t want a publicist': Dougray Scott on film, fame and his father's war stories 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z “The Prince of Providence” is part comedy, part tragedy and full-on farce — just like the larger-than-life politician who put Rhode Island’s capital on the map, often for all the wrong reasons. Comedy or tragedy? Play tells infamous mayor’s story onstage 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Her most beloved novels use tragedy as an entry point into farce. Beryl Bainbridge: The writer who used tragedy as an entry point into farce 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z This knockabout farce out of London, where it has been running for more than two years and won the Olivier Award for best comedy, is devoted entirely to destroying itself before your eyes. Review: ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ Upends a Whodunit 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Operating on guts, intuition and perception, Wellman caught “found life” in an astounding variety of dramas, melodramas, comedies, farces and adventures. ‘Wild Bill Wellman: Hollywood Rebel,’ by William Wellman Jr. 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Although primarily a theatrical form, farce is also prominent elsewhere at the moment. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z It combines the frenzy of farce with the creeping incremental detail of kitchen-sink realism. Review: ‘Toast’ Blends Farce With Kitchen-Sink Realism 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z But it shares with its predecessor a fondness for the subterfuges and archetypes of classic farce, which Mr. Bean translates fluently into modern-day terms. Review: Great Pretenders Pocket Laughs in ‘The Nap’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z We also periodically dip into French farce while tut-tutting at its dubious taste, especially all those Feydeau jokes about stuttering and cleft palates. Making a sc?ne: the five French dramatists you should meet 2011-03-21T12:49:22Z Again offering something entertaining for everyone, Strassberger blithely moves from the bizarre to the real, from melodrama to farce. 'JFK' is a surreal spin on president's last night in Texas 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z When the Irish playwright Dion Boucicault was barely out of his teens, he wrote a farce that tickled most of London. Four Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z In “The Laundromat,” for example, he crafted a byzantine farce based on Panama Papers investigative reporting . In ‘The Report,’ setting the record on torture straight 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z It’s a father and two sons, and he forces them to put on this farce every day. Domhnall Gleeson Feels That Crackle in the Air 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z OK, so as hideously outdated farce goes it's a lot funnier than the current dead-on-its-feet cinema release Run for Your Wife, but then so is cutting your thumb off in the waste disposal unit. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-03-03T00:05:21Z Comic plays on Broadway these days are generally either knockabout farces like “The Play That Goes Wrong” or repurposed stand-up routines like “Latin History for Morons.” Review: Look Up! It’s Amy Schumer in ‘Meteor Shower’ 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Reminiscent of the Italian film farces of the ’60s, the episode employs a rollicking version of the ballad “Guantanamera” to comment on their conjugal struggle and end the movie on a note of triumphant ambiguity. ‘Lucía,’ a Gem of Cuban Cinema, Is Restored 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Though structured as a farce — with more than a dash of German Expressionism — the script is black comedy at its sootiest and most rageful. Robert Lyons?s ?Nostradamus? at Ohio Theater 2010-08-06T21:12:00Z That wouldn't be a problem if "Why Stop Now" were a farce. 'Why Stop Now': Rehab comedy/drama overdoses on silliness 2012-08-23T20:56:12Z In celebrated works that range from the blissfully ordered disorderliness of the backstage farce “Noises Off” to the cosmos-probing physics of “Copenhagen,” Mr. Frayn has mined this most elemental tension to dazzling effect. The Week Ahead: Sept. 26 ? Oct. 2 2010-09-24T16:00:00Z The sense of vulgar farce continues as the women twitch and flop on the ground. Review: Staging Their Own Siege, Sardonic and Messy 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z It's a crying shame Blair diddled us so much at home, stuck us in a cruel domestic farce, when he's far more impassioned about global tragedy. Rewind TV: The Tony Blair Interview With Andrew Marr; The Hunt for Britain's Sex Traffickers; I Am Slave 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z It feels like writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong felt bold enough to push the farce as far as they could. The Sopranos to Blackadder – what are the definitive series of the best TV shows? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z All but incontrovertible physical evidence that farce is on the bill. Theater Review | 'Lend Me a Tenor': LaPaglia and Shalhoub Clown Around at the Music Box 2010-04-05T02:09:00Z These may sound like powerful attacks on the 1%, but they are wishy-washy in comparison to the route to social equality mapped out in French farce Ma Loute. Sex, ghosts money and sainthood – now playing at Cannes 2016 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z That is, assuming everything here is true, and not just the second installment of a multi-album musicanovela in which he and his wife portray bitter lovers bound together by fate, fame and farce. Jay-Z Revels in the Catharsis of Confession on ‘4:44’ 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Ketelsen’s comic skills, especially, often pushed the show’s knife-edge balance of horror and farce in the latter direction, but lurking tension propelled the show like a coiled spring. Review | WNO’s new ‘Don Giovanni’ is a monster that feels timely without trying 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z Described by another character as “a menopausal toddler,” she injects the political farce with a winning dose of slapstick, playing excellently against more deadpan co-stars like Vanessa Williams and Lea DeLaria. Rachel Dratch’s Comfort Zones: ‘Somebody Somewhere’ and ‘Bad Vegan’ 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z My view of What the Butler Saw is that it's a deeply shocking and subversive play, masquerading as a farce. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z The Trump phenomenon marks what I dearly hope will be a bottom in both American tragedy and farce. Is Donald Trump "crazy?" Wrong question 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z This flavor of farce is about the right speed for summer TV. "The Good Guys": Bradley Whitford with a bad cop mustache? 2010-05-19T14:01:00Z You see, for Mr. Ayckbourn, as for Chekhov, farce and tragedy are no more mutually exclusive in theater than they are in life. Alan Ayckbourn’s Latest, ‘Arrivals & Departures’ 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z But it also makes a multicourse meal out of Paul's petulance at Julia's successes, giving Pierce an excuse to pull shades of Niles Crane out of deep storage, setting him into full French farce mode. The joy of HBO Max's Julia Child series, a deliciously affectionate celebration of an icon 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z “The Royal We” shifts its setting to American suburbia, and its tone to marital farce. Review: ‘The Romanoffs’ Is Elegant but Frustrating 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z It’s the distilled sound of giddy, sunny farce, wherein collisions, deceptions and confrontations blend improbably into celestial harmony. Critic?s Notebook: London Theater Journal: It's About Time 2012-02-02T15:38:37Z It’s 100 percent funny business: Just the farce, ma’am. Review: ‘Angie Tribeca,’ Steve and Nancy Carell’s Modern-Day ‘Police Squad!’ 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z A 19th-century French painter fakes his own death to raise the value of paintings in Mark Twain’s farce. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Oct. 8-15: 'Helen Lawrence,' Karen Finley and more 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z Farce is a tricky thing to sustain, especially sex farce. Maintaining the lighter-than-air souffle of farce at A Noise Within 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The tradition was cemented a few years ago when Smash, NBC’s musical drama, went from having an amazing pilot to being a complete farce in just several episodes. Under the Dome: television's latest great hate-watch 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z Can you describe how you created the set pieces and combined all these elements into a high-energy action farce? "Polite Society" filmmaker on combining Bollywood, martial arts and "angry women being rageful" 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z This week, romance is in the air in “The Mystery of Love & Sex,” "Sex, Faith and Jason Wexler" and the classic farce "The Importance of Being Earnest." L.A. theater openings, Feb. 21-28: 'The Mystery of Love & Sex' and more 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z How can history repeat itself as farce when it’s farce in the first place? “Insane in Moscow”: The unbelievable but partly true story of the zany English publicist, the Azerbaijani pop sensation and the “high-quality” presidential offspring 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Barrel of laughs ... the first Edinburgh comedy awards sponsored by Fosters beer may end in farce after Stewart Lee sparked a sabotage bid. Edinburgh festival comedy endorsements are no laughing matter 2010-08-25T12:41:00Z With this bittersweet farce, Guirgis makes a case for celebrating life, regardless of the kind of world we’re stuck in at the moment. 6 Things to Do This Memorial Day Weekend 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z That wouldn’t be a problem if “Why Stop Now?” were a farce. Movie Review: ‘Why Stop Now?’ With Melissa Leo and Jesse Eisenberg 2012-08-17T15:07:21Z The first artist to repeat Shakespearean tragedy as farce was Shakespeare: he spoofed “Romeo and Juliet” in the ridiculous performance of “Pyramus and Thisbe,” whose “tragical mirth” concludes “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z But the pace of Kaut-Howson's staging manages to suggest lassitude without succumbing to it, and it emphasises the play's kernel of farce more enthusiastically than most. Uncle Vanya ? review 2011-04-07T17:07:53Z And the production of that classic Oscar Wilde farce that David Hyde Pierce plans to direct there might just meet that standard. ArtsBeat: Running Wilde: A Gangster Version of 'Earnest,' Directed by David Hyde Pierce 2012-03-01T15:17:33Z It’s a bravura performance in which war becomes farce, history becomes burlesque. A Comic Novel Asks Who Gets to Write the History of the Colonial Philippines 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z In 1983, she reunited professionally with Burton in the Noel Coward farce "Private Lives," a play about a divorced couple whose romance is rekindled by a chance meeting. Elizabeth Taylor, legendary actress, dies at 79 2011-03-23T13:57:00Z Peasant modesty and farce replaced the regal might and strict etiquette of the court. 2010-02-01T05:00:00Z Strange Eventful History Independent Shakespeare Company stages David Melville's new backstage farce inspired by the works of the Bard and Christopher Marlowe. L.A. theater openings, Oct. 18-25: 'Kansas City Choir Boy' and more 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z But once it was clear that the farm held no strategic value, the invasion tipped over into farce. A family farm’s Russian invasion A multiplicity of doors on a stage summons expectations of a farce or perhaps a game show. Theater Review: ‘Measure for Measure’ Full of Dual Natures and Hard Choices 2014-03-02T23:23:31Z Her pluckiness is not free of fear, her confusion not devoid of humor; she finds the pathos in the farce. CW's 'Jane the Virgin' mixes wacky and serious, with a natural ease 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z Matthew Warchus's revival of the 60's French farce earns Rylance a Tony award for his deadpan performance as Robert, a Wisconsin lad who is unsuspectingly sucked into his friend's playboy antics. Mark Rylance: 'You have to move into the chaos' 2013-07-01T06:30:01Z At the imperial zenith of her career, Pauline Kael labeled a film “the most virtuoso example of sophisticated kaleidoscopic farce that American moviemakers have ever come up with.” Books of The Times: ?Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark? and ?Lucking Out? - Review 2011-10-26T22:07:52Z In a moment of disability farce, it dumps noisome gags about bathroom stalls; the menstrual cycle is also a key concern. “Sally4Ever” and “The Bisexual,” Reviewed: Women in Crisis, In and Out of the Bedroom 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The whole thing often plays like an unintentional farce. | 'Trespass': ?Trespass,? With Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman - Review 2011-10-13T23:47:25Z It's running low on new ideas, but it's also funny, a farce closer to "Shrek the Third" than, say, "Toy Story 3." Penguins to the rescue in 'Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted' 2012-06-06T22:23:04Z Now comes “The Play That Goes Wrong,” a British farce born in a pub, that has been running in the West End of London since 2014. Trouble Heads for Broadway, With Transfer of ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z It all adds up to delicious farce, and, as farce should be, the timing is impeccable. ‘Jeeves in Bloom’ a valentine to Wodehouse fans 2013-02-11T19:39:34Z The ensemble deploys a scenery-battering physical vocabulary that turns pratfalls into rattling death throes and finds the kinship between tragedy and farce. Review: ‘Ubu Roi,’ Mom and Dad’s Party of Grown-Up Grotesques 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z We really enjoyed this farce, with many good laughs through the evening. ArtsBeat: Curtain Down, Heads Up: Is There Such a Thing as Too Much Theater? 2011-01-31T12:00:14Z Honestly, this isn't just on a par with the worst indulgences of French sex farce cinema, it's down there with the dregs of Britain's contributions to the genre. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2012-07-28T23:05:39Z Before it landed in cinemas last month, the smart money would have been on gambling farce The House as a hit. The keg party's over: why gross-out comedies are going down the pan 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z As the plot careers forward, Adjei-Brenyah uses footnotes as tethers between fiction and reality, reminding us that his gladiatorial farce is just a little tragicomic leap from an extant American horror. In This Satire, Televised Blood Baths Offer Prisoners a Path to Freedom 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z The tone of this tragic farce, in which Edgar becomes a puppet caught up in events and manipulated by unseen strings in an uncaring universe, is never consistent. Teatro Corsario: La Maldici?n de Poe ? review 2011-01-16T22:32:01Z Outstanding British film contender Four Lions employs farce to tackle the issue of suicide bombers. In pictures 2011-01-18T11:51:58Z The bedroom farce misinterpretations that drive the plot are standard issue, and the mechanics clatter. Review | Can Beppo the bellhop sing? Olney’s ‘A Comedy of Tenors’ is more frenzy than finesse. 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z The scheme is so harebrained that it belongs more to farce than tragedy, but Shakespeare decided otherwise. ‘Romeo y Julieta’ Review: Young Love in Two Languages 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z But some days, when reality barges in, the art seems to be nothing but farce. When Tragedy Strikes, What Does Criticism Have to Offer? 2021-03-28T04:00:00Z The movie’s bouts of frenzy build to a chaotic police station sequence that suggests a Keystone Kops farce: the few good guys and the mostly bad ones frantically chase one another in circles. | 'Point Blank': It?s Paris, and Everyone Is Rotten but the Man Chased by the Police 2011-07-28T22:30:10Z Those Who Can’t Critic, 1; Amazon users, 4.4 A strained farce about three incompetent and unpleasant teachers who plot to bring down the even more unpleasant student who loves to taunt them. Watch List: Original Pilots, Judged by the Masses 2013-04-22T21:43:18Z David Lindsay-Abaire’s farce about mismatched elderly roommates at the Bristol Place Senior Living Facility. The best theater events of summer 2019 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z At intervals, Vanessa would look over at me and smile this absolutely wicked smile, illuminating a sense of both mastery and farce. Dominatrix for a day 2012-11-04T01:00:00Z They decided to make it a farce, which is smart. New doc "9to5" spotlights the women who rose up against sexism and harassment at work in the 1970s 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z Even a sympathetic viewer has to tread carefully in the first half-hour, as acutely observed humor vies with the more obvious farce of pratfalls and eggs tossed at car windshields. 'Tamara Drewe' review: Sex, Cows and Rock 'n Roll 2010-10-07T16:10:00Z Mr. Garner’s co-star was Julie Andrews, with whom he later appeared in Blake Edwards’s cross-dressing farce “Victor/Victoria” as a Chicago gangster with a surprisingly open mind toward gender roles. James Garner, disarming leading man of film and television, dies at 86 Now ending the first few weeks of rehearsal for “You Can’t Take It With You,” the 1930s farce about a madcap New York family, Jones is conserving his energy. James Earl Jones: A voice for the ages, aging gracefully Along the way, Ms. Cholodenko somehow blends the anarchic energy of farce — fueled by coincidences and reversals, collisions and misunderstandings — with a novelistic sensitivity to the almost invisible threads that bind and entangle people. | 'The Kids Are All Right': Annette Bening, Julianne Moore and the Sperm Donor 2010-07-08T22:10:00Z If the first song is a delicate ballad, the audience will be confused and unhappy when a knockabout farce ensues. ‘The Secret Life of the American Musical’ — from ‘Gypsy’ to ‘Hamilton’ 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Howard is trying to construct a dark, absurdist farce about missed connections and mistaken assumptions; Beth assumes that Ronny, a recovering gambling addict, has fallen off the wagon in some spectacular fashion. "The Dilemma": Vince Vaughn's psycho-stalker breakdown 2011-01-14T20:30:00Z Middle-class lives do come unspooling in “Another Round,” but this odd little film turns out to be neither farce nor moralistic provocation. ‘Another Round’ Review: They’ll Drink to That 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z This is farce with few slamming doors but plenty of absurdity and exaggeration. At Village, a fresh take on ‘The Foreigner’ 2014-01-30T20:18:12Z I arrived at the castle, known as the Château de la Flocellière, after a series of misadventures suited for a French farce. A French Castle, Now Open to All 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z It’s nice to see it restored to its giddy old self, even if what’s going on in Washington is, in a less happy way, a farce. “The Play That Goes Wrong” Is Quite Good 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z If you like the farce and brotherly conflicts of “Frasier,” or if you ever loved “Peep Show” or “That Mitchell and Webb Look,” watch this. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z What Mr. Ascher and his company achieve is a sort of platonic ideal of farce. | 'Uncle Vanya': Chekhov?s Slugfest, With Pratfalls 2011-08-07T21:36:44Z In a way, farce is the most purely theatrical form. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z Here is a film that travels from the 19th century to the distant future, from thriller to sci-fi to romance to farce. Cloud Atlas – review 2013-02-21T21:03:01Z “The wickedly funny farce about rich teenage girls in Beverly Hills emerged this weekend as a sleeper hit of the summer.” ‘Clueless’ Was Amy Heckerling’s Masterpiece. Is She Done With It? As If. 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z In these scenes “My Piece of the Pie” veers unsteadily from mild social satire to farce. | 'My Piece of the Pie': ?My Piece of the Pie? - Review 2011-12-09T02:19:48Z But low farce is only one substance in the film’s dispensary. | 'Love & Other Drugs': A Young Viagra Salesman Sees Lust Turn Into Love 2010-11-23T23:20:00Z At the Milwaukee Rep, I did a play called “Cat Among the Pigeons,” which is a Feydeau farce, and I played the ingénue in that, or the soubrette. “I Was Never Really the Ingénue”: An Interview with Judith Light 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z The reviews reviewed: Historic television repeats itself as farce. What to say about ... Yes, Prime Minister 2010-05-25T10:21:00Z Ten years ago, that comic duo’s “Goodnight Bush” felt like a sharp jab of political farce. Perspective | Liberal satire is getting dangerously lazy in the Trump era 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The show works simultaneously as family-values-affirming drama and deadpan surrealist farce: Father Knows Best meets Twin Peaks. Big Love: Shark-Jumping in Utah 2010-02-22T14:05:00Z The film “giddily embraces the excesses of its era, from spandex to ’staches, though it’s a farce that speaks as well to this tarnished age,” Manohla Dargis wrote in The Times. What’s On TV Friday 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z If anything, the play's desperation quotient - a prime ingredient of any farce worth its belly laughs - has only increased in the show's first Broadway revival, which opened Sunday at the Music Box Theatre. 'Tenor's' foolishness undiminished in NY revival 2010-04-05T01:16:00Z Salam’s ambitions are modest enough — he would like to keep his job, maintain his dignity and have a chance with Mariam — but pursuing them pitches him toward catastrophe, farce or both. ‘Tel Aviv on Fire’ Review: Mideast Conflict as Soap Opera and Farce 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z But on closer inspection, it's a farce with a metaphorical punch. This week's new film events 2013-04-20T05:00:13Z History is the thing that happens twice, first as tragedy, then as farce. ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ Review: Making the Leap, Again 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z So why, in these recessionary times, does farce seem to be the smart way of making money? Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z The raw material plays as tragedy and farce at the same time. ‘House of Gucci’ Review: Murder, Italian-Style 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Interpreted a different way, these face-saving tragic turns could well be performed as farce: so ridiculous are the extremes the characters turn to in the name of propriety that they cease to be proper. Theater Review: ‘Le Cid’ at the Theater of the Church of Notre Dame 2013-01-21T23:51:21Z Sentenced to death after a farce of a trial. The horrors of ‘Game of Thrones,’ character by character 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z All farces rely on clockwork-precise timing but this is so fiendishly constructed that Coward himself thought it "one of the most difficult plays to perform". Hay Fever 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z This magnif tour de farce is a showcase for Caesar’s reckless, almost rapacious comic energy. The Comedic Genius of Sid Caesar: 7 Clips You Can Actually Watch on YouTube 2014-02-13T17:59:44Z Following the unexpectedly delightful moment, I kept thinking how much more I'd rather see those two fine actors in a good comic farce than sit through the rest of the rudderless, halfhearted "Savages." 'Savages': Oliver Stone's hazy tale of drugs, thugs, free love 2012-07-03T23:30:05Z But when it talks, or tries to develop a situation, Alvin 2 relies on shtick that sinks below even the dismal standards of high school comedies and buddy farces. 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z And about Alexander Payne’s “Downsizing,” a genial, barbed parable of consumerism, environmental crisis and social inequality disguised as a dystopian farce. Best Pictures, Maybe, but Telluride Is Not About Oscars 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z At about half that length this might be an enjoyable, if forgettable, farce. Theater Review: ‘Let’s Kill Grandma This Christmas’ at St. Clement’s 2012-12-05T21:59:34Z She finds a tricky balance of farce, satire and emotional sincerity, a way of treating people as ridiculous without denying them empathy. Review: In ‘Maggie’s Plan,’ Greta Gerwig Aspires to Motherhood on Her Terms 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Yet while David Korins’s nifty revolving set is meant, I think, to summon the whirligig dizziness of farce, “Chinglish” only rarely achieves the sort of momentum that sends audiences into the ether. Theater Review: ?Chinglish,? by David Henry Hwang, at Longacre Theater ? Review 2011-10-28T02:00:00Z When, after years of separation, Gatsby and Daisy meet, their awkwardness is turned into knockabout farce. Gatz; The Witness; You Once Said Yes – review 2012-06-16T23:06:06Z The slick translation by Sam Taylor keeps every sentence piqued to a frenzy bordering on farce, a self-satirizing convulsion that both reflects and mocks these characters’ hysteria. ‘The Age of Reinvention’ review: A novel of Islamophobia and deception 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Besides which, the whole thing felt like farce from the moment it happened, even to the family. How My Aunt Marge Ended Up in the Deep Freeze . . . 2012-04-14T20:06:48Z And bawdy farce ensues when Rob begins to change the day’s script and uses his newfound ability as a superpower to escape unpleasant situations. ‘Premature,’ a Teenage Comedy, Mixes Sex and Sci-Fi 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z “Instead, it is a dark, startlingly bloody journey into the bitter, empty, broken heart of the American middle class, a blend of farce and satire built on a foundation of social despair.” What’s on TV Monday: ‘Amazing Grace’ and ‘The House’ 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Hollywood history plays first as tragedy and second as farce. TV Weekend: Liz and Dick 2012-11-23T13:00:18Z That frat-boy farce, which cost just $18 million to produce, attracted healthy percentages of men and women, teens and the geriatrics over 25. Here's why The Fault in Our Stars fell to earth this weekend 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z As often happens with farce, some of the air escapes this balloon during intermission. Theater Review: Sean McNall in Charles Morey’s ‘Figaro,’ at Pearl Theater 2012-11-06T22:50:17Z And how does one successfully and directly parody a farce? How can "Saturday Night Live" parody a farcical administration? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Traditional farces are the theatrical equivalent of vintage steam locomotives: lovingly restored pieces of antique machinery that produce a warm glow when we see them in the distance. Feeling the farce 2010-12-15T13:01:43Z And on the movie’s own rascally terms, by playing the Sun Gym tragedy the second time as farce, it’s kinda fun. Michael Bay’s Pain & Gain: The Second Time as Farce 2013-04-26T03:30:45Z Ms. Erdman remembered when an actress in Ferenc Molnar’s farce “The Guardsman” sat on a Victorian settee a little too dramatically at the Berkshire Theater Festival a few years ago. Theater Props Masters Gather at the Public Theater 2012-09-11T00:26:08Z This Itamar Moses farce is the second spring play in Seattle to concern itself with a famous classical composer. Music rivals, Esperanto and new works on Seattle stages 2013-05-16T19:35:10Z No one could match him on this continent in farce, and he was an expert at Shakespeare and Chekhov too. The theater world's loss of Myra Carter, Brian Bedford and Alan Rickman resounds 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Classic farce set in ancient Rome, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. L.A. theater openings, April 5-12: 'I and You' and more 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z This is the moment, midway in the film, when “Goon” reveals its true colors and turns from a rowdy sports farce into something vaguely resembling the “Rocky” of hockey movies. Movie Review: ?Goon,? Directed by Michael Dowse 2012-03-29T21:23:35Z It is a farce of mistaken identities that rips along with brio and wears its cleverness lightly. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z But as enjoyable as that version was, it didn’t quite reconcile its screeching turns between farce and melodrama. Cate Blanchett and Chekhov, Together on Broadway 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Responding to the trailer rather than the full movie, the palace said in an official statement that “history has been misappropriated for purely commercial purposes” and concluded that it “appears to be a farce”. Biopics trashed by families, friends and fans – ranked! 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Created by Bruce Jordan and Marilyn Adams and very loosely based on a German drama, this murderous farce centers on a unisex hair salon and a vicious murder. Theater Listings for Oct. 30-Nov. 5 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z At heart, it is an elevated French farce, a much hipper, more relaxed and sophisticated update of “La Cage aux Folles.” Review: In ‘The New Girlfriend,’ a Widower’s Secret Life Is Revealed 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Even more crucially, Ayckbourn creates real people rather than the demented marionettes who usually inhabit farce. Taking Steps | Theatre review 2010-03-29T20:30:00Z As much as the narrative around Trump often resembles a grand tragedy in the making, it just as often comes off as pitch-black farce. Who should direct the Donald Trump biopic? 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z Later that decade, they turn to cosily satirical farce, the products of an exasperated, grump. The Boulting brothers: holy fools 2013-07-26T13:00:19Z Getting everyone to New York for the festival was a maddening farce that was only partly successful, because of the travel restrictions now in place for people carrying Syrian passports. Review: In ‘While I Was Waiting,’ a Man and a Country in Limbo 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z So why is he starting with a Victorian farce almost no one has heard of? Director Joe Wright: 'I go nuts if I'm idle' 2013-02-20T19:30:01Z As a playwright Frayn made his name with a farce – Noises Off – now he's written a fine farcical novel. Skios by Michael Frayn – review 2013-04-28T11:00:02Z And if you’re allergic to British farce as practiced by the likes of Benny Hill and depicted in the “Carry On” movies, “Two Guvnors” may well have you sneezing convulsively. ArtsBeat: Funny Then and There, Here and Now 2011-07-25T16:19:24Z First, this is a sure-footed revival of a British postwar classic, perhaps the most shimmering English-language farce since Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest." Epigrams and clothes fly in Taper's 'What the Butler Saw' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Spearritt pursued an acting career, finding success in ITV drama Primeval and in the West End stage production of farce One Man, Two Guvnors. S Club 7 reunion star acts the part 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z Designed as an affectionate tribute to the classical models of farce, “The Matchmaker” is nonetheless gently inflected with the warm humanity and wry wisdom that characterized much of Wilder’s writing. Theater Review: ‘The Matchmaker’ at Stratford Shakespeare Festival 2012-08-26T21:36:37Z Mr. Close’s experiments were grounded in slapstick farce, lowbrow vaudeville corn and controlled spontaneity. Film: Adam McKay Directs Cops Under Arrested Adolescence 2010-08-01T01:53:00Z “Is it a farce with music, as Weill maintained?” ‘The Threepenny Opera,’ Without the ‘Cabaret’ Clichés 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z But it is calamitous in “Virginia,” which keeps you off balance as its tone zigzags among farce, pathos and satire. Movie Review: Schizophrenia in Dustin Lance Black?s Film ?Virginia? 2012-05-17T23:03:55Z Two Shakespeares follow: the mistaken identity farce The Comedy Of Errors and this year's most popular choice from the Bard, Macbeth "re-imagined for those aged six and over". Theatre picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z A turbaned passenger calls it “kismet,” but the Depression-era romantic farce “Easy Living” isn’t so much about fate as the fantasy of getting something for nothing. Gifts Galore: ‘Easy Living,’ With Jean Arthur and a Coat From the Heavens 2018-12-26T05:00:00Z My mom is farce incarnate, is like Lucille Ball basically. "Mrs. Davis" star Betty Gilpin on her risk-taking acting style: "I like playing high stakes" 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z On the Marxist principle that history repeats itself as farce, that seems a foregone conclusion. Still Resonating From the Great Wall 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z “Deacon King Kong” is many things: a mystery novel, a crime novel, an urban farce, a portrait of a project community. James McBride’s ‘Deacon King Kong’ Is a Supercharged Urban Farce Lit Up by Thunderbolts of Rage 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z Even these sequences contain smears of farce begging to be noticed alongside casting that marries purpose to stunt. With "Swarm," two "Atlanta" collaborators kick the beehive of toxic fandom 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z The first season of Breaking Bad covered the story of Walter's bizarre life-switch with a tone of macabre farce. Breaking Bad: from Mr Chips to Scarface 2012-05-18T23:03:00Z It’s almost welcome, for the way it forecloses on the possibility that we are dealing with something as complex as farce, say, or satire. Who Really Wrote This Thriller? Our Critic Has a Guess 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z His last big movie role was in a cricketing farce called Save Your Legs! in 2012. Hounds of Love: why do comedians make such chilling villains? 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z She stayed for two, mostly happy, seasons, appearing in everything from Greek tragedy to Aldwych farce. Pat Keen obituary 2013-03-21T13:38:50Z Such is the premise of “The Philanderer,” a drawing-room farce by George Bernard Shaw. Theater Review: ?The Philanderer,? From the Pearl Theater Company 2012-01-31T22:21:13Z In Ionesco’s tragic farce, an old couple usher in throngs of invisible guests, offering them myriad chairs to await an important announcement. A Puppet Theater Response to Ionesco in ‘The Chairs’ 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z The revival is steadier in the next two episodes, where it settles into its nimble mode of zingers, farce and slapstick. Review: The World Changed. NBC’s ‘Will & Grace’ Hasn’t. 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z An administration headed by a man who proposed fortifying our 1,954 mile border with a moat filled with alligators and snakes, and meant it, is already a fully realized farce. How can "Saturday Night Live" parody a farcical administration? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z What follows is a series of chases, a farce that may remind some of classic Charlie Chaplin. Eww, That’s Gross. And We Like It That Way. 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z With her note-perfect British accent and skittish sense of conviction, Gyllenhaal raises Hysteria above the level of naughty farce to something altogether more pleasurable. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-01-13T00:05:29Z As a farce, “POTUS” still plays by old and almost definitionally male rules; farce is built on tropes of domination and violence. Review: In a Gleeful ‘POTUS,’ White House Enablers Gone Wild 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z If you are inclined to object that my list is itself a farce, you will likely still concede that the most worthy alternative shows are also tales of murder, meltdown, and existential despair. My Favorite TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z If the right's opportunistic xenophobia towards asylum-seekers is the tragedy of the current epoch, their opportunistic media pitchforking of the arts community is its farce. Who's afraid of the art boogie monster? 2013-06-13T05:07:38Z Rix, the leading exponent of farce in British theatre, television and cinema of the period, became an energetic campaigner and fundraiser, and Gray a powerful advocate for their cause. Elspet Gray 2013-02-19T19:30:21Z So I'm genuinely remorseful if my enthusiasm contributed to a cultural farce that turns ambitious writers into figures of fun and hate. I loved Jonathan Franzen not wisely but too well 2010-10-07T16:28:00Z If this wispy subplot were detached from the rest of the movie and developed, it might be the basis of an amusing screwball farce. Review: ‘Ashby’ Pairs a Retired C.I.A. Killer With a High School Nerd 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z It’s a holy courtroom drama and a brazenly irreverent farce, set in Purgatory and animated by slangy, gritty, foul-mouthed characters who somehow insist on keeping the stakes very real. Forum Theatre’s ‘The Last Days of Judas Iscariot’ The movie doesn’t split the difference between raunchy sex farce and dual personal growth study so much as complacently fall between rom-com subgenres. ‘No Hard Feelings’ Review: How Lucky Can a Nerdy Kid Get? 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z True, a certain amount of inanity is an accepted ingredient in farce, but you could handily herd the entire cast of “Aida,” elephants and all, through the holes in Mr. Ludwig’s labored plot. Theater Review | 'Lend Me a Tenor': LaPaglia and Shalhoub Clown Around at the Music Box 2010-04-05T02:09:00Z It was an annual quest, and one that introduced us to musicals, farces and whodunits. Where to get your art fix this summer 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z “The Play That Goes Wrong,” a British farce about an inept theater troupe’s ill-fated effort to stage a murder mystery, will close on Broadway this summer. Broadway’s ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ to Close in August 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z The last months of savage and arbitrary repression are presented more or less in caricature, almost at times as farce. Carry on up the Kremlin: how The Death of Stalin plays Russian roulette with the truth 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z The audience is clobbered by merriment, with none of the alarm that spices up the best farce. The Dark Earth and the Light Sky; Twelfth Night; The Magistrate – review 2012-11-25T00:05:48Z Antic, profane and riveting, these mural-like scenes replayed history as farce and masqueraded tragedy as depraved comedy. Kara Walker Traces Slavery’s Bitter Legacy with New Ways of Drawing 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z The film’s titular confinement may not be, as Naomi repeatedly claims, “every woman’s fantasy,” but it is probably the only way anyone is going to sit through this ridiculous, cobbled-together farce. | 'Tied to a Chair': Thespian Dreams 2011-05-26T22:56:20Z Richard Easton offers sterling support as the Critic, the confidant who is the primary audience for the offstage farce they enact. | 'The Guardsman': In the Berkshires, Revisiting Molnar?s ?Guardsman? 2010-07-19T21:49:00Z Beverly’s outrageousness recalls that of innumerable stock characters from Tyler Perry’s plays, Black sitcoms of the 1970s and Chitlin’ Circuit farces. Review: In ‘Chicken & Biscuits,’ a Sweet but Dated Comedic Recipe 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z They start off engaged in a role-playing murder mystery game, costumes reminiscent of a French farce included. Movie Review: ‘Merry Christmas’ Is an Improvised Murder Mystery 2013-12-05T23:44:06Z It has the structure of an erotic French comedy, echoing both Feydeau’s farces and Eric Rohmer’s cerebral films, translated into the camp, flip banter that is the lingua franca of its characters. London Theater Journal: Laughing Wall to Wall 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Regnard swiped liberally from situations in both Molière’s “The Miser” and “The Imaginary Invalid,” but his style is less satirical and more akin to a raucous, ribald hell-for-leather farce. Theater Review: ‘The Heir Apparent,’ by Way of David Ives 2014-04-10T02:00:01Z Marx said that history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce, but the turnaround’s rarely so speedy. The Sopranos at 20: how the hit show changed the gangster genre 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z "It behaves like a classic farce - it takes a bunch of wonderful, vivid, interesting and compelling characters and puts them in one place over a short period of time." Before 'Anything Goes' hits road, a history lesson 2012-09-07T13:25:20Z The arrest and brief imprisonment of Jagger on drugs charges ended in high farce with the establishment frenziedly kowtowing to the youth cult. Mick Jagger by Philip Norman – review 2012-10-04T07:00:01Z During faux commercial breaks, “Game Show” is equally enjoyable as a behind-the-scenes farce about network power grabs, contract negotiations, bedhopping and other machinations. ‘Game Show’ lets the audience play along 2013-08-01T21:40:42Z Photograph: BBC It was Karl Marx who said history repeats itself first as tragedy, then as farce. BBC looks to steal Downton ratings with two helpings of PG Wodehouse 2012-12-29T22:35:29Z This is the immutable law of farce: all things precious must be destroyed. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas: This Santa's Got a Brand New Stash 2011-11-03T21:21:13Z Factor in the two unsanctioned entries, the 1967 farce “Casino Royale” and 1983’s “Never Say Never Again,” and the tally reaches almost double the number of Bond books that creator Ian Fleming wrote. Review | Behind the scenes of James Bond: A new book offers a look back at the longest-running movie franchise 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z There are hints of farce, droplets of melodrama, a few dangling loose ends and an overall mood of sloppy, tolerant cynicism. | 'You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger': Facing the Void With Faith in Mumbo-Jumbo 2010-09-21T16:29:00Z Miller's play would still float, but the farce would likely sink. Who will win at the Tony Awards? AP predicts 2012-06-07T19:01:07Z A story that should have been a taut poker-faced French farce that pushed its premise to the brink of absurdity stalls, unsure of its balance between comedy and drama. | ?Special Treatment?: Isabelle Huppert in ?Special Treatment? - Review 2011-08-25T23:05:36Z If much of Inconvenient People reads like a mood book through which Wilkie Collins might have flipped if stuck for inspiration, there are moments of high farce too. Inconvenient People by Sarah Wise - review 2012-11-09T22:55:02Z Fo's 1970 activist farce was inspired by a political scandal in Italy, in a time of civic unrest and crackdowns. 'Anarchist': 1970 Dario Fo comedy still packs a punch 2012-07-25T20:22:04Z He apprenticed in repertory theater and eventually became a staple of the West End’s Whitehall theater in long-running farces. Andrew Sachs, who played hapless waiter Manuel on ‘Fawlty Towers,’ dies at 86 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z This film “plants its cheeky flag at the crossroads of sex farce, pastoral and high literary polish,” A. O. Scott wrote in The Times in October. DVDs: Visions From 1951, Noir and Psychedelic 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z There is an internal logic to even the grandest farce. 'A Million Ways to Die in the West' shoots self in foot 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Mostly, however, it is pathetic farce, a band designed to incite reactions no matter how idiotic the cost. Pitchfork Festival Day 3: Tree, Foxygen, Killer Mike kick things off 2013-07-22T00:56:00Z Things improve considerably in the second act, where farce takes over. Bewigged ambitions in Taproot’s ‘Bach at Leipzig’ 2013-05-23T20:25:47Z The Australian found that out in 2008-9, when the newly famous funny woman was on everybody’s shortlist to star in this romantic comedy or that farce. Isla Fisher finds her comfort zone in supporting roles 2013-05-17T21:35:34Z The pace is jaunty, the scenes crackle with gleeful, giddy incredulity, and the dry business of statecraft attains the velocity of farce. ‘Vice’ Review: Dick Cheney and the Negative Great Man Theory of History 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z The author David Lodge makes use of this paradox in his 1984 academic farce “Small World,” whose young academic Persse McGarrigle is writing a Master’s thesis on “The Influence of T. S. Eliot on Shakespeare.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z “I feel there are moments in it,” he wrote, “that hit as deeply into the farce and humor and pity and ironic tragedy of life as anything in modern drama.” Review: In an Energized ‘Iceman,’ the Drinks are on Denzel 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z One Man, Two Guvnors South Coast Rep opens its season with David Ivers directing his hit farce about a failed washboard musician and others in 1960s England. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 13-20: 'One Man, Two Guvnors' and more 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z “The Brink” uses satire to tell truth to power, but it works better as farce than as parable. Review: ‘The Brink’ Stars Tim Robbins as a Sex-Crazed Secretary of State 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z It’s a didactic comedy, an earnest lesson in political economy dressed up as a farce. ‘The Laundromat’ Review: Meryl Streep in a Cycle of Spin 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z For the first time he is directing a Broadway show, a revival of the 1989 farce “Lend Me a Tenor,” scheduled to open at the Music Box Theater on April 4. Stanley Tucci, Director 2010-02-17T18:52:00Z Sullivan creates a period atmosphere of breezy charm in the winsome production, which features several members of the Pearl's resident acting company who are expert at insouciant, perceptive farce. Review: 2 J.M. Barrie comedies smart, breezy 2013-05-07T21:01:15Z Writer-director David O. Russell’s black comic farce is as brilliant as it is hysterically funny. Your family’s not dysfunctional enough? Here’s something to laugh about 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Shaffer, who found critical and popular favor on London’s West End and on Broadway, wrote 18 plays that encompassed tragedy and comedy, horror and farce, the epic and the quotidian, history and the present. Peter Shaffer, acclaimed British playwright of ‘Equus’ and ‘Amadeus,’ dies at 90 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z And like most sports, farce requires from its players hair-trigger timing and an intuitive grasp of the physics of bodies in motion. Review: Great Pretenders Pocket Laughs in ‘The Nap’ 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Having not seen the original French film, I wonder if this is a holdover from the farce? Is "CODA" the "Green Book" of films about deaf people? 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z Marx said that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. The common banana is trash and likely to go extinct: Try eating these alternatives instead 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z Laughter rings out across the theater at this farce and its pranks. Dance Review: Down on the Dacha, Farmers Showing Off Expressive Footwork 2011-01-23T22:45:37Z I think that's the idea – ramp it up and drag it out to the point of black farce. TV review: Utopia; The Sarah Millican Television Programme 2013-01-16T07:00:08Z What starts off as a light farce takes an atypical turn in "All Relative," an honest if not entirely successful attempt at doing something unexpected within the traditional romantic-comedy framework. 'All Relative' stretches rom-com framework 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z An aside about a grieving artist who creates sculptures of mangled children and his own scrotum provides a telling indication of this novel’s grim farce. Review | In ‘Kraft,’ German author Jonas Lüscher pokes fun at Silicon Valley’s shiny elitism and rabid faith in technology 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z The mostly young and little-known cast is a conglomeration of Feigean misfits engaged in sibling rivalry, romantic longings and institutional satire, with the added component of physics as farce. Q&A: Paul Feig on 'Other Space' and the comedy of close quarters 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z This one is content to make a show of the kind of skills that are unlikely to get anyone very far in the workplace but that are nonetheless essential to the functions of farce. | 'Horrible Bosses': A Treatise on Issues of the Workplace. Not. 2011-07-07T16:06:51Z But it's an unpredictable, impromptu act that triggers the action, and Herrin's production shows how easily everything can swivel round, and how quickly misery tips into farce. Spur of the Moment; Pygmalion; The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist; The Magical Menagerie 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z It's a farce, of course, but no one knows better than Don that image is everything. "Mad Men" recap: Through the looking glass 2010-10-11T12:30:00Z Done right, the backstage farce is one of the most blissful forms of entertainment in existence. “The Play That Goes Wrong” Is Quite Good 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z So, just as we have transitioned from Bush’s performed patriotism to Trump’s farce, we can note the rise in comedians stepping up to remind the nation of our values and our democratic institutions. Jon Stewart, defender of American values: How comedians are redefining patriotism now 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z The play itself isn’t the greatest Coward; in April 1941 he wrote it in a week, and the “improbable farce,” as he called it, was entertaining a war-torn London by July. Ageless Lansbury puts fizz in ‘Blithe Spirit’ 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z The partnership Ricordi so shrewdly engineered would move from one of opera’s darkest tragedies to one of its airiest, most sophisticated farces, an apt capstone on an epochal career. The Secret of Verdi’s ‘Otello’ and ‘Falstaff’? His Publisher 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z In many ways this airborne disaster farce – anarchic, absurdist, garishly stylish and gleefully debauched – is a return to the Spanish auteur's subversive roots. I'm So Excited, The Eye Of The Storm, Gimme The Loot: what to see at the cinema this week 2013-05-04T05:00:12Z Recent American politics, rich with shades of farce and tragedy, has led to revivals and original plays that reflect where we have landed. Shining a light into the political chasm of America through Scalia and 'The Originalist' 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z The first two hours, as Mr. Madoff builds his illusory empire and at first evades detection, are largely played for comedy, even farce. Review: ‘Madoff,’ What He Was Thinking 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z He recently played a character based on Harvey Weinstein in the David Mamet farce Bitter Wheat. John Malkovich: 'I had a lot of violence growing up, but so what?' 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z The film’s late swerves into melodrama and the neighboring region of farce feel panicky and pandering. Movie Review: Lynn Shelton’s ‘Your Sister’s Sister’ 2012-06-14T21:38:38Z Although "Lovesick" plays more like an extended sitcom episode than a full-fledged feature film, the script by Dean Young contains enough genuine laughs and amusing moments to keep this slight romantic farce afloat. 'Lovesick' script and star give romantic comedy a boost 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z But his strength was comedy, farce and slapstick that he captured in a visual style trained on silent comedies. Master of farce and slapstick, Blake Edwards, dies 2010-12-16T22:02:10Z History has a way of repeating itself, first as farce and then as farce. Game, set and spats… a grand slam of tennis movies 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z “Matt and I would bemoan the fact that there are so few comedy farces to perform,” Ludt said. Worcester playwright hopes for success in debut 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z The producer David Merrick was impressed, and asked him to compose samples for a musical based on “The Matchmaker,” Thornton Wilder’s farce about a widowed matchmaker who makes a match for herself. Jerry Herman, Composer of ‘Hello, Dolly!’ and Other Broadway Hits, Dies at 88 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Introspection — or at least 5-cent sidewalk psychology — is the meat around which these shows wrap their casings of comedy, from elaborate farce to the most casual anecdotal sitcom foolery. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Maron’ Returns for a Second Season 2014-05-07T21:05:06Z Speaking to BBC Radio on Tuesday, Malkovich described “Bitter Wheat”, which opens in London in the summer, as “a black farce about a very badly behaved movie mogul”, who he said was “not particularly” Weinstein. John Malkovich to play disgraced movie mogul in new Mamet play 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Lets get down to the nitty gritty,the honours system is farce and laughing stock of the country. Too many celebrity honours - MPs 2012-08-29T11:52:20Z In the macabre farce of human existence, we’re all hopeful zombies, plodding along, “uneasy, rumbling with hunger.” ‘The Making of Zombie Wars’ goes beyond the undead 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z It wasn't even the biggest comedy of 1993: that honour went to the Robin Williams cross-dressing farce Mrs Doubtfire, which grossed more than three times as much in the US. Groundhog Day: the perfect comedy, for ever 2013-02-07T20:00:03Z Produced by the Amoralists at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, it’s part science-fiction yarn, part horror tale, part sex farce, part memory play and, briefly, a musical. Review: ‘Nibbler,’ About the Sweet Horrors of Youth 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z On the contrary, his job was to convert this dysfunction into disposable laughs, expertly choreographed farces in which Stewart channeled our own helpless bemusement. We all got addicted to Jon Stewart: How the “Daily Show’s” brilliance made us codependent with the crazies 2015-08-01T04:00:00Z After all, it was disheartening to watch everything that was meaningful to our culture turn into a farce. Arabic dress and Iranian accents ? Hollywood's take on Afghan women 2011-02-12T10:59:00Z This is an overextended sitcom that would like to become a farce but settles instead for some hoary Neil Simon middle ground. Larry David's play 'Fish in the Dark' thinks too small-screen 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z “You get more behind the scenes into what’s going on with the characters, as well as all the farce and the madcap comedy.” British Comedy ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ Plans Spring Broadway Bow 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Could that cherishable farce “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” possibly be more daft and befuddling than Shakespeare made it, with romances spawned, crossed and erased in the blink of an enchanted eye? Purcell’s ‘The Fairy Queen’ Reset in New York 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z The fall of the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction took the form, on one side, of abrupt tragic farce and, on the other side, of slow degradation, and my long shame. David Bowman and the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z It was the season of a musical about Princess Diana, a play about the Lehman Brothers, and a farce about the women propping up an incompetent president. The Twisting Trail to the Tonys: ‘Can You Believe That We’re Here?’ 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z What our critic said: This is “a farce with teeth, a costume drama with sharp political instincts and an aggressive sense of the absurd.” How to Watch ‘Black Panther’ Free and Other Oscar Movie Tips 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z But about a third of the way in, we suddenly switch gears and “One Cut of the Dead” delightfully transforms into a slapstick backstage farce — think “Noises Off” with blood. When Reality Is Scary Enough, These Movies Are Safe Nightmares 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z On this slender thread, the original playwright, Alexis Piron, hung a farce à clef so complicated it apparently spun in circles. Review: Rhyme Gone Wild in ‘The Metromaniacs’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Were it made by a different team, the movie might have been conceived as a shrill farce and been much the worse for it. In ‘The Humbling,’ Al Pacino Plays an Aging Performer 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z It’s a slightly melodramatic twist, though it raises the stakes from teenage farce to something with a little more emotional resonance. Television Review: MTV’s ‘Faking It’ Stars Katie Stevens and Rita Volk 2014-04-21T21:55:24Z Molière deployed touches of farce in “Tartuffe,” but the humor is medium for a message. If you’re in the mood for comedy, try these productions 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Twelfth Night Shakespeare's romantic farce about a shipwrecked woman, a lovesick duke and others. L.A. theater openings, June 21-28: 'Twelfth Night' and more 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z While that may all sound a little fanciful, writes Stephen Holden, it’s grounded by the Tom Hanks, whose “performance elevates an ominous, downbeat reflection on American decline and runaway technology into a subdued absurdist farce.” What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Veep’ and Anything Prince 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z “American Hustle” giddily embraces the excesses of its era, from spandex to ’staches, though it’s a farce that speaks as well to this tarnished age. Movie Review: ‘American Hustle,’ With Christian Bale and Amy Adams 2013-12-12T20:37:43Z Even if Lewis makes once too often the point that the clinicians are just as screwed-up as the patients, he successfully allows cerebral comedy to escalate into physical farce. Seven Year Twitch – review 2013-05-28T17:11:53Z The risk comes largely from the extreme pace farce demands. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z Ultimately she steers “Lysistrata” out of ribald farce into the real horrors of combat. In this ‘Lysistrata,’ sex and war don’t mix 2013-07-25T22:40:24Z The climax of the festival was the staging of "The Ruse of Medusa," Satie's surreal farce with piano interludes called monkey dances, which featured, of course, Cunningham. How John Cage made performance the true heart of Black Mountain College 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z At others he tumbles over into farce, his rage reminding me of the Incredible Hulk or Windsor Davies. Killing Joke: 'We've lost all our friends. We're the only ones we've got left' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-03-27T13:38:11Z Everything is a farce and a fraud, and the surest, or at least most available, way to get ahead is to treat it as such. Everything’s a Joke Until It’s Not 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Mayr focused entirely on the humor; his opera based on this material is a one-act work he categorized as a “sentimental farce.” Perspective | Strong woman confronts unjust ruler — opera tells, and retells, the story 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z In one piece, for example, he mocks “the history, the rumor, the myth, the praise, the double-eye” and “the crocodile-grinning farce” of leaders. A Provocative Satirist Left a Pervasive Legacy, Influencing African Writing 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z It’s the kind of overheated farce at which Mr. Frayn excels, and is played with manic conviction by the three actors. | 'The Sneeze': Gesundheits as Chekhov and Vaudeville Collide 2010-10-01T23:39:00Z But Larry Schneider, a retired metallurgist and industrial consultant with a specialized knowledge of mining, calls the reclamation process “an absolute farce.” Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z It’s an enthusiastic farce, with a friendly mood. | 'Iron Curtain': ?Iron Curtain? at Baruch Performing Arts - Review 2011-11-16T22:59:30Z One of his earliest works, this boisterous farce about mistaken identities plays lightly with themes — estrangement, injustice, infidelity — that will later be more deeply explored. Theater Review: A ‘Comedy of Errors’ Unfolds in the ’40s, With Fedoras 2013-06-19T02:00:01Z After Edwards died in 1988, Sykes paired with Terry Scott for successful tours of the vintage farce Run for Your Wife. Eric Sykes 2012-07-04T11:46:45Z But how do you top real life events that already feel like a Whitehall farce? MPs duck out of The Duck House 2013-12-11T10:59:23Z The celebrated English author of more than 70 comic plays, Ayckbourn is known for tweaking stage and farce conventions. Review: Seattle Public Theater's 'My Wonderful Day' shows adult foolishness through a wise girl's eyes 2011-02-01T20:54:03Z If one had to dramatise Von Trier’s recent history at the Cannes film festival, it could play as a series of entrances and exits, like a Feydeau farce without the laughs. Does Lars von Trier’s ‘vomitive’ new film spell the end for provocative cinema? 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z It helps to recall that good farce is always knockabout, regardless of gender; it’s a pleasure to roar at suffering that is big and fake and somebody else’s. Review: A Fair Fight Makes ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ Lovable Again 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Jacobs, the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and an alert, excellent cast have located both its uproarious farce and its core of melancholy. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z And the film’s riotous climax deftly turns grim social realism into action-slapstick revenge farce. | 'Looking for Eric': Steve Evets and Eric Cantona in Ken Loach?s Film 2010-05-13T22:40:00Z But even in films like his 1985 farce, “Lost in America,” Mr. Brooks said he has found humor in scenarios that are more miserable than audiences might realize. Albert Brooks Laughs His Way Through Dystopia 2011-05-03T12:00:00Z His encounters with a shamed local family provide a story that touches on both farce and allegory. This week's new DVD and Blu-ray releases 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z Considering the dizzying number of romantic entanglements, it threatens to tip over into sex farce. ‘American Hustle’ and ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ as Brutal Comedies 2014-01-24T21:39:56Z Largely dispensing with knockabout farce, this long, blithe, clever film earned Edwards his only Oscar nomination, for adapted screenplay. 10 Pink Panthers at Tiffany's: Farewell to Blake Edwards 2010-12-19T14:10:00Z Briers was expert in comedy and farce: he could do dither and charm, and yet convey the nervous anguish of the apparently ordinary. Richard Briers was a potent presence on stage, as well as in The Good Life 2013-02-18T16:04:36Z The actual auteurs of “Official Competition,” Duprat and Cohn, are much more relaxed, keeping everything at a pitch of genial, low-key farce with a few eruptions of strong feeling. ‘Official Competition’ Review: Madness in Their Methods 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z All kinds of people have messed with “The Comedy of Errors,” a farce to begin with, but “Much Ado,” a multiplotted romantic comedy, is a trickier beast. Theater: Shakespeare gets all funked up 2011-01-27T17:55:00Z Maura is luminous, heartbreaking even in the midst of this claustrophobic farce. The 5 essential Pedro Almodóvar movies to watch on your way to ‘Pain and Glory’ 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Like many of Macdonald’s fictional anecdotes, this one transforms a believable framework into farce. For Norm Macdonald, facts are just starting points for comedy 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z In a sense, we’re all cast in what she calls “the collective nightmare of Mister Monkey,” condemned to play out this ghastly farce of material existence. Francine Prose’s ‘Mister Monkey’ takes on the bananas world of children’s theater 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z Noises Off Michael Frayn’s hit comedy about an acting troupe staging a bedroom farce. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 21-28: 'The 39 Steps' and more 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Humor, ranging from wit to broad farce, further enhances these charming stories. Stephen Fry gets behind the mic for ‘The Tales of Max Carrados’ 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z But that delicious Bill Murray-ness starts to build unfair expectations that the whole movie is going to be a quirky farce about charming hillbillies. 'Get Low' Review: Robert Duvall Raises the Bar 2010-07-30T21:00:00Z Inspired by the ancient farces of Plautus, this convoluted tale of a wily slave, young lovers and dirty old men in dirty old Rome ingeniously finds the links between classical comedy and its burlesque-house descendants. Two Sides of Sondheim in the Berkshires 2010-07-06T21:36:00Z Ms. Skinner’s play is not a tempestuous love story, on the one hand, or a smirky farce of infidelity, on the other. ‘The Village Bike’ Stars Greta Gerwig as a Woman Obsessed 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z But it plays as an arch, hammily acted farce that demonstrates the incompatibility of old-fashioned stage acting with modern film technique. Movie Review: ‘1st Night,’ Directed by Christopher Menaul 2013-05-02T22:20:16Z For the first act’s 75 minutes, Gurira scripts this like a vintage farce unfolding in real time. Review | Zimbabwe meets Minnesota in Danai Gurira’s funny ‘Familiar’ 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z “Everybody Wants Some!!” is many things — a baseball caper, a sex farce, a campus romance, a campus bromance — but the film’s real claim to distinction may be that it’s the least suspenseful ticking-clock movie ever. Review: In ‘Everybody Wants Some!!,’ Casual Sex and Casual Philosophizing 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z And Mr. Frammartino observes and manipulates them as deftly — and as rigorously — as Buster Keaton did in “The General,” the most Newtonian of his farces. | 'Le Quattro Volte': Eternal Complexities of the Very Simple Life 2011-03-29T22:23:21Z The casting issue is mitigated, to some extent, by the show’s proclivity for mixing lachrymose family drama in with the odd-couple farce. Review: In ‘Turn Up Charlie,’ the Manny Isn’t Just a Man, He’s Idris Elba 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z That film's premiere at the Berlin film festival in 1997 descended into farce when its hero's supposedly poignant death in a ballooning accident was greeted with cheers and laughter. Lévy's Libya: a philosopher's phone call to arms against Gaddafi 2012-05-25T15:00:05Z While farce can cut and bruise actors, I suspect it can also touch audiences more painfully than its stereotype of silly entertainment suggests. Farce is everywhere on stage – but why? 2012-06-10T17:30:01Z There is, typically, not really a proper joke in there, just a moment of soft farce dwarfed into insignificance by the current events toward which it gestures. Reviving “Murphy Brown” and “Magnum P.I.” on the Post-Moonves CBS 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z His Austrian counterpart echoed the sentiment, calling the WHO report a “farce”. Wurst case scenario: Germany and Austria defend their sausages 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The piñata is, among other things, a reminder of our own susceptibility to farce. When faced with a cartoonish villain, we can’t look away, however disgusted we profess ourselves to be. The Man Behind the Trump Piñata 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z And Vice is frequently very funny, full of the same sort of grotesque, antic farce seen in McKay’s straight-up comedies such as Anchorman and The Other Guys. Why Vice should win the best picture Oscar 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z The farce accelerates when Di Lirio insists on meeting the young men’s mothers on the same day, and none of the women are available. Review: In ‘Delirium’s Daughters,’ Dad Wrestles Daughters’ Suitors, One Dead 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z Perhaps because Russell's real-life story defies all logic, the movie refuses to follow any normal narrative conventions, becoming a pell-mell, can-you-top-this odyssey beyond madcap farce into total derangement. "I Love You Phillip Morris": Too gay for 2010? 2010-12-02T01:30:00Z Certainly, that’s true for Tyler Perry’s cross-dressing Christian farces, but it’s not a stigma that should be attached to more mainstream fare. Ice Cube and Kevin Hart: ‘Hollywood is realising that black people go to movies’ 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z With the country on the brink of civil war, we analyse the man and the myth that is Muammar Gaddafi, ruling through an extraordinary mix of fear and farce. The week in review podcast: Gaddafi, antisemitism and Jamie's Dream School 2011-03-04T16:43:39Z This is “Private Lives” as farce, for sure. Theater Review: Kim Cattrall Stars in ?Private Lives? - Review 2011-11-18T03:02:49Z Anything that we thought too far-fetched, even for farce, is now going in our political life. The Fallen Worlds of Philip Pullman 2019-09-29T04:00:00Z But because the movie is really a farce with a bittersweet subtext, that hot action isn’t so hot. | 'I Love You Phillip Morris': A Winning Smile Makes the Scamming a Breeze 2010-12-03T00:00:00Z The Alaskan, however, proved a “challenging fellow” who thought “this whole pandemic was a farce,” according to Mr. Long. Canada to U.S. Visitors: Please Don’t Sneak Across the Border 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z In “Four Lions,” a farce that recognizes the limits of humor and the existence of tragedy, comedy is a means of illuminating the rhetorical confusion and knee-jerk pieties surrounding a charged subject. Film: The Gang That Couldn?t Bomb Straight 2010-10-23T16:08:00Z “Count Ory” dates from 1828, when Rossini was writing for the Paris stage and is based on a farce set in medieval France. High notes and high jinks: Lawrence Brownlee returns to Seattle Opera for bawdy ‘Count Ory’ 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Balancing the two is a tricky business on a U.S. stage, where slapstick farces crossed with Marxist rallying cries are rare. Intiman fest opens with a hungry farce, Italian-style 2013-07-15T20:09:34Z In the series, which alternates between broad farce and dark comedy, Martin plays a once-famous TV actor and Short plays a never-that-great Broadway director who live in the same Renaissance-style building in Manhattan. Steve Martin and Martin Short Are Thrilled for Each Other, of Course 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z "Who You Think I Am" has a storyline that sounds like a farce, but it is actually very serious. Juliette Binoche on playing a catfishing 50-year-old: "She cannot accept being abandoned" 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Bernard Farrell's new suburban farce champions the power of positive thinking. Bookworms 2010-06-04T21:45:00Z The current longest-running play of any kind — a slapstick British farce, “The Play That Goes Wrong” — has been on the boards for a mere nine months. Perspective | As tourist-friendly musicals take over, Broadway no longer belongs to playwrights 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z Edward Meadham and Benjamin Kirchhoff hacked into fashion’s pretentiousness, but their humor was not all farce. Fashion Review: Young Designers Lead the Way at London Fashion Shows - Fashion Review 2011-09-21T17:58:26Z There was no way I was going to dignify this farce with cultural authenticity. Arabic dress and Iranian accents ? Hollywood's take on Afghan women 2011-02-12T10:59:00Z There aren’t many jokes, but it’s a nicely staged sequence in which barreling action becomes joyfully preposterous farce. Why New TV Comedies Are Choosing Plot Over Jokes 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z My opinion is that Bird's skill, forged on The Inbetweeners, is his ability to manage the flow of farce around him – not necessarily to instigate it. Simon Bird spreads his wings 2011-02-20T00:05:18Z The anger and violence are wrapped, however, in farce and the kind of bitter, erudite insult humor at which the British are so adept. ‘Babylon,’ a Dark British Comedy About Policing 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z “We did an outrageous farce, yet she was able to find the tragic element of the character,” he said. The secret to Tony Awards nominee Laurie Metcalf's success? Brilliance and a whole lot of hard work 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Dividing its time between two major cities — Taipei and Beijing — and eight lonely, loosely connected souls, this contrived farce opens in a bathroom stall and culminates in the vicinity of a septic tank. Movie Review: ?Love? Is a Romantic Comedy Set in China and Taiwan 2012-02-17T01:30:50Z It is a broad comic role in a film that balances farce with tragedy. Charles Durning obituary 2012-12-25T15:24:51Z Rather than science fiction, the comic is closer to amiable French sex farce, but fired by Barbarella’s erotic energy. A French Siren Returns 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z For “Strangelove,” he distilled the essence of hipster disgust: the only sane response to the prospect of nuclear annihilation was ridicule and black farce. The Half-Century Anniversary of 'Dr. Strangelove' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z It's David Fincher's biggest hit and though the academy's more squeamish voters can't see the farce through the blood spatter, all those eyeballs on it count for something. Oscar race is crowded for best picture, screenplay 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z This changed with the concept of palliative care, a form of respect and care to the patient, as opposed to dishonesty and farce. How to Say ‘No’ This Thanksgiving 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z In this way the story doesn't so much respond to "A Little Cloud" as repeat it as farce. Where Have You Been? by Joseph O'Connor – review 2012-10-05T21:55:03Z But even a farce requires more than cardboard cutouts. Theater Review: Frank Strausser?s ?Psycho Therapy? at Cherry Lane 2012-02-09T22:33:29Z Like all of Wodehouse’s best tales, “Uncle Fred Flits By” is utter nonsense, a tightly plotted farce made of thin air. Review: Surprise Lessons From John Lithgow’s ‘Stories by Heart’ 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z “It’s not only a farce,” Mr. Sachs said, “it’s a tragedy, and the relationship between all those people is very real. We recognize the follies in ourselves. It’s exaggerated, but true to life.” Andrew Sachs, who played hapless waiter Manuel on ‘Fawlty Towers,’ dies at 86 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Leading Ladies Ken Ludwig’s farce about a pair of struggling actors who try to scam a wealthy old woman by posing as her long-lost nieces. L.A. theater openings, July 6-13: 'The Orphan of Zhao' and more 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z The pivot from pure farce creates a tonal tightrope that “Eureka Day” traverses with empathy for all involved. Review | Mosaic Theater’s ‘Eureka Day’ slyly takes aim at self-righteous liberalism 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The book was, he said, an attempt to do farce – a theatrical genre of which the author of Noises Off is a master – in the form of a novel. The real Michael Frayn hits Edinburgh book festival – or does he? 2012-08-16T16:43:20Z In her new novel, “Mermaids in Paradise,” Lydia Millet sets Chip and Deb on a collision course with farce and loses control of her plot. Book review: ‘Mermaids in Paradise,’ by Lydia Millet Though long a repertory staple, Goldoni’s farce attracted renewed interest when the British playwright Richard Bean rejiggered it as “One Man, Two Guvnors.” Goldoni’s ‘The Servant of Two Masters,’ in the Country 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z That episode occasioned Karl Marx’s celebrated statement about the way history repeats itself: “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” ‘Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris,’ by Peter Brooks 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Even the slight, prefabricated “Boeing Boeing” — a 1965 film based on a French farce that had flopped on Broadway — takes on an otherwise unaccountable emotional and thematic complexity, thanks to Mr. Lewis’s confounding presence. DVD: Jerry Lewis on DVD, ?Geisha Boy? and ?Boeing Boeing? 2012-02-19T03:43:03Z Ms. Bennett’s own character, at least, is believable enough for a lighthearted farce. Review: ‘Preggoland.’ It’s a Nice Place to Visit. Sort Of. 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Hale noted that the show mixed “lachrymose family drama in with the odd-couple farce.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Network’ and Two Very Different Spy Movies 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Make no mistake; this workplace farce wasn’t very funny even before Mr. Trump opened his mouth. Review: In ‘Kevin From Work,’ Caricatures Are the Rule 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Bach at Leipzig The young German composer competes for a position as a church organist in Itamar Moses' historical farce. L.A. theater openings, March 13-20: 'Once' and more 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The show’s climax in particular features a crowded, crazed multi-character scene veering close to farce. Stephen Karam?s ?Sons of the Prophet? and ?Dark Sisters? 2011-10-09T03:17:20Z This brand of farce is sometimes difficult for Americans to pull off for two reasons: It's consummately British, and its form, though modeled on classical precedent, is somewhat antique. Epigrams and clothes fly in Taper's 'What the Butler Saw' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, Mr. Malkovich told BBC radio that he expected “a lot of people” not to like the work, which he called a “black farce.” John Malkovich to Play Harvey Weinstein-Like Character in West End 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z The Goodman production's strength is fast-paced farce — almost all of the laughs from New York are there with even a few more added. Uneasy laughs in 'God of Carnage' 2011-03-15T03:12:35Z It is plated as a Cold War spy vs. spy spoof, an absurd farce with dashes of James Bond and Alfred Hitchcock. A new kind of dinner theater takes off in Seattle 2011-11-02T21:04:04Z It was pompous and highbrow in a way that many of today’s mainstream sitcoms just aren’t, and often treated its episodes like a grand repertory stage farce. Shrinking returns: analysing the pros and cons of a Frasier reboot 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The result is to push satire, legitimately in my view, into the zany realm of farce. Prime of their life 2010-05-21T07:41:00Z A star of Italian cinema by age 20, Ms. Lisi drew international attention for her lissome appeal in a range of dramas and farces. Virna Lisi, sultry Italian actress who proved her dramatic mettle, dies at 78 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Having repeated the history as tragedy, Hollywood is repackaging it as farce. ‘Death to the infidels!’ Why it’s time to fix Hollywood’s problem with Muslims 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z With a Hedda this sour and cunning from the start, her union with the chipper, oblivious Tessman can only come off as a farce, its absurdity radiating outward. ‘Hedda Gabler’ and ‘The Winter’s Tale’: 2 Takes That Shout Subtext 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z But European farce is a hard nut for Nu Sass Productions to crack; the in-your-face acting is overwhelming in the tiny converted art gallery Caos on F. Review | A new play and a vintage satire reflect factional frenzy 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z The program notes for “Lucky Stiff” unabashedly proclaim it “a zany piece of fluff,” and Actors Co-op's revival of this 1988 musical farce pursues that objective with single-minded intensity. The humor is deadpan, or just dead, in 'Lucky Stiff' 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Last year’s comedy hit “One Man, Two Guvnors,” which notably added a band to its farce, giving it more the feel of a musical than a play, was an ode to British music hall. Critic’s Notebook: Broadway’s Laughs, From Nathan Lane to Bette Midler 2013-05-29T16:05:07Z But in a story with as high a potential for farce, this “Arden” misses most opportunities to capitalize on its built-in momentum. ‘Arden of Faversham’ Review: An Elizabethan Noir Lost in the Fog 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Twelfth Night Coeurage Theatre Company stages Shakespeare’s romantic farce about shipwrecked twins, a lovesick duke and others. 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