Sentence examples for farce comedy from inspiring English sources

LONG BRANCH "Tour de Farce," comedy by Philip LaZebnik and Kingsley Day.

WEST HARTFORD Park Road Playhouse "Bedroom Farce," comedy by Alan Ackbourne.

As the American critic Brian O'Doherty once put it, it is "the locus of power struggles conducted through farce, comedy, irony, transcendence, and of course, commerce".

Like any really good farce comedy, "Twentieth Century" is so wayward in its methods, so crammed with seemingly unconnected incident, and so crowded with wonderful but generally inexplicable characters that any rational synopsis of it is very difficult.

Drama, native in Malayalam tradition, emerged in the modern period as farce, comedy, and satire but turned in the 1920s to a more sombre appraisal of outdated social conventions.

On the usual Noh program, each play was followed by a kyōgen farce comedy, performed not by the chief (shite) or supporting (waki) actors of Noh but by kyōgen actors, who also acted the roles of villagers or fishermen in Noh plays.

In the modern kinema farce and comedy are synonymous.

All Americans probably know the answer to this question, which makes these hearings more farce than comedy.

Trailers for the film promise plenty of broad farce, physical comedy and at least one lewd dance routine.

A poet, playwright, and painter, Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero took his material from the life of the commoner; his medium was the folk song, farce, or comedy.

Then came a sequence of free and lively adaptations from the French, more farce than comedy, including The Country House (first performed 1703) and The Confederacy (1705).