Sentence examples for classical farce from inspiring English sources

He said: "This is a new episode in a long series of David Cameron's classical farce... where are they?

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has claimed British bombing raids against Isis targets in his country will fail – and ridiculed Cameron's Middle East policy as a "classical farce".

The brilliantly contrived plot is in the manner of classical farce but it leads to mayhem on a massive scale that escalates from a broken nose to an accidental killing, butchery by axe, and execution by CIA gunmen.

And the form he uses to dramatize his characters' quandary is, at least apparently, as artificial and as unforgiving as the society itself: the classical farce of Beaumarchais and Marivaux.

ONE MAN, TWO GUVNORS All the rudeness, crudeness and perversely light-footed grace of classical farce seemed to be invented anew, every night and on the spot, by this Broadway transplant from the National Theater in London — and particularly by its triumphantly addled star, James Corden.

Although stupidity is an essential element even of "sophisticated" comedy (classical farce depends on its characters' capacity to get more or less everything wrong), it's not so easy to sustain an audience's interest in, and amusement at, characters as relentlessly and intractably clueless as Harry and Lloyd.

In classical French farce, characters exist in a perpetual state of comic misapprehension.

Many attempts have been made to find the form's origins in preclassical and classical mime and farce and to trace a continuity from the classical Atellan play to the commedia dell'arte's emergence in 16th-century Italy.

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.

A burgeoning theatrical career was interrupted by the war, where Gough served with the Pioneer Corps, since when he rarely found himself out of work as an actor, carving out a particularly distinguished West End career that took in everything from classical drama to farce.

August 2, 1932 Connemara, Ireland December 14, 2013 London, England Peter O'Toole, in full Peter Seamus O'Toole (born August 2, 1932, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland died December 14 , 2013 London, England) Irish stage and film actor whose range extended from classical drama to contemporary farce.