As in the final act of any farce, people run around like mad, slamming doors and taking pratfalls, coupling and uncoupling and recoupling.
Then, it captured an air of farce and uneasy anger.
Actually, in May 1952, five years earlier than Osborne's play and in the teeth of opposition from Equity and the West End managers, I welcomed the BBC into the Whitehall theatre to transmit the first act of the army farce Reluctant Heroes.
In the first major act of this financial farce, the question was raised: will Wall Street rule Washington or will the White House govern finance?
Even her greatest act of existential courage ended in farce.
"This Is Not a Film," as they called their "effort" (that's the word used in the credits), is actually a playful pass at filmmaking; it is also a valiant and dangerous act of protest against the sinister farce of Panahi's punishment.
Viewers have complained about the joke acts, the farce of the theme weeks (in "No 1s" week, some of the songs had never topped the chart), and vented their fury at Tulisa.
The act of donning a costume becomes a silent farce in three brief acts.
We said usual level of farce.
