Sentence examples for farce performance from inspiring English sources

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It typifies a great farce performance in which innocence is corrupted by experience.

But what makes this a first-rate farce performance is Haig's suggestion that Truscott is a madman in the grip of an idée fixe Even if the two young tearaways lack the right buccaneering, bisexual loucheness, there is excellent work from Doon Mackichan as the predatory nurse and James Hayes as the victimised widower.

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Later, after the couple parted, they came to legal blows, a court case in Honolulu descending into performance farce as each endeavoured to prove that they were the artist behind "an infinity of kitsch".

I mean, I wouldn't want to sit through one of his plays, but they're great.' " Mr. Walsh's play "The Walworth Farce," which begins performances at St . Anns Warehouse in Brooklyn on April 15, is in some ways a departure, at least on the surface.

The documents came from a hack of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the hacker said, including a claim that they showed how "the US presidential elections are becoming a farce, a big political performance where the voters are far from playing the leading role".

Casting is complete for the first major New York revival of "Cactus Flower," the Abe Burrows romantic farce that had 1,234 performances on Broadway from 1965 to 1968 and netted Goldie Hawn a career-making Best Supporting Actress Oscar for the 1969 film version.

A piece in Politico, headlined "THE PAC TO END ALL PACS IS A FARCE," described it as "political performance art".

Katie Finneran won for best featured actress in a play for her performance in the farce "Noises Off," which has closed.

The two met while serving in India, in 1881, acting in an army performance of a farce called "The Area Belle" in which Baden-Powell, for once, played a male part, while McLaren, a 20-year-old who looked 14, appeared in the ingénue's role.

"Why didn't he go to some of those countries which are not quite barbarous; where the savages eat each other fairly, and give an equal chance to every one!" At Dickens camp, in the mountains above the sea, I went, on my last night, to the performance of the farce, written and directed by John Glavin.

The pace and timing of the performances, essential for farce, is sharp throughout, from pauses to double-takes, and Mr. Hudson patiently lets the humor build on its own rather than trying to rush the laughs with stage business or mugging.

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