The phrase "a farce based on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a comedic or absurd situation that is derived from a particular source, such as a story, event, or concept.
Example: "The play is a farce based on the misunderstandings that arise during a family reunion."
Alternatives: "a comedy inspired by" or "a satire derived from".
For "Little Murders" (1971), a dark farce based on a Jules Feiffer play, Mr. Gould approached — and briefly secured — Jean-Luc Godard to direct.
The film Miseria e nobiltà (Poverty and Nobility) starring Totò and Sophia Loren was a matrimonial farce based on class.
Many of Shakespeare's stories are set in abstract places with plots that apply to many cultures - Hamlet is about revenge and a young man who doesn't get on with his step-father, Othello is ostensibly about jealousy and Twelfth Night is a good old farce based on mistaken identity.
Gilbert had written a blank verse farce based on the same material in 1870, called The Princess, and he reused a good deal of the dialogue from his earlier play in the libretto of Princess Ida.
The couple met in February 1998 at the Ohio Theater in New York, awaiting the start of "The Handless Maiden," an Adobe Theater Company farce based on the Grimm fairy tale about greed and impetuous action.
Molière's company also toured France in improvised farces based on the style of the commedia.
PETERSBURG For thirty years, the Siberian-born Boris Eifman has specialized in emotionally ripe, extreme, and theatrically adventurous dance dramas, as well as the odd farce, usually based on literary masterpieces, such as "Don Quixote" (which he set in a mental asylum).
The gory farce show, based on the 1960 Roger Corman movie, opened at the WPA Theater in 1982 and quickly moved to the Orpheum Theater, where it played for more than 2,000 performances.
Fo's farce is based on real-life events surrounding the death of Italian anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, then-secretary of the Italian branch of the Anarchist Black Cross.
This is despite the fact that it is a musical based on a farce by Voltaire, with a score composed by Leonard Bernstein and a book and lyrics concocted by such wits as Lillian Hellman, Richard Wilbur and Dorothy Parker.
