Sentence examples for farce around from inspiring English sources

May I lift a virtual glass of this potent stuff to Blakemore, one of the finest directors of farce around, and to his superb ensemble.

Under Michael Blakemore, one of the finest directors of farce around, Atkinson's fluting high dudgeon and Ebersole's flirtatious hostility create a terrific force field for Everett's droll reactions.

A canny producer could do far worse than to mount a revival of Bedroom Farce around her and her perfect foil from that gala, Nicholas Le Prevost.

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.

His writing has a precise quality - everything in its place - but one that is constantly vigilant to the threat of tragedy or farce around its edges.

James Armstrong's "Foggy Bottom" is certainly one of the most international farces around.

As in the final act of any farce, people run around like mad, slamming doors and taking pratfalls, coupling and uncoupling and recoupling.

And when she gets her revenge on him by tying his shoelaces together, he is forced to execute the dizzying moves of farce by hopping around like a shackled kangaroo, something that Jamie Glover does with prodigious physical skill.

Ken Ludwig's 1986 farce revolves around an Italian opera star who goes missing before a performance in Cleveland.

The critically acclaimed Nicola Barker was longlisted for The Yips, the stories of the strange denizens of the bar of "a clean but generic hotel" in Luton, while Michael Frayn's Skios, an intricate farce set around a conference on a Greek island, and André Brink's Philida, which tells of the journey of a slave in 1832 Cape Town, were also chosen by judges.

Encouraged by the huge critical and commercial success of Steve Coogan's Alpha Papa in 2013, a farce based around the television character of Alan Partridge, confidence has grown in the potential of British film comedy, a genre previously regarded as risky and lacking widespread appeal.