Sentence examples for at farce from inspiring English sources

The attempts at farce in "Twelfth Night" and Kenneth Branagh's "Much Ado About Nothing" are unwatchable.

He also showed his ability at farce in Switching Channels (1988) and Noises Off (1992).

"It's practically abroad!" At farce speed, all things eventually disintegrate; "Is He Dead?" soon turns into what Eric Bentley called "the theatre of the surrealist body".

The backstage sniping between the demanding Keene and her rebellious co-stars consumes much of the first act, which concludes with a strained attempt at farce.

Or that the BBC researchers are so young they believe their grandparents were unsophisticated simpletons, prepared to laugh at farces with no bad language, no obscene allusions and no nudity, except for the occasional dropping of trousers?

Laughter rings out across the theater at this farce and its pranks.

Where was Kennedy to express liberal outrage at this farce and to lead a movement to refuse to recognise Bush as president until the votes were counted?

Under the direction of Billy Hopkins, once with the Ensemble Studio Theater and now a Hollywood casting director, the actors can't seem to decide whether to go purely for the clowning or to make an occasional stab at real farce.

It's tempting, but the result is often, at best, farce.

Premiering at the Locarno Film Festival and opening at New York's Metrograph this Friday the loopy farce at first feels a Gallic mashup of Robert Louis Stephenson and the mad-science flicks of the 1980s (Firestarter, Back to the Future, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids).

There is every reason to suppose that immortality, if granted to humans, would be at best a drag and at worst a farce, both hideous and divisive.