Sentence examples for farce stage from inspiring English sources

Not a comforting notion, really, but Robert De Niro seems comfortable enough with it -- probably because, with his characteristic self-assurance, he's confident that he can unearth a few emotional truths even from the farce stage of his movie generation's history.

Wisconsin reaches the "farce" stage of its fractious fracas.

Azhar's detention is almost certainly a farce, staged to placate foreign leaders.

Or "Habeas Corpus," a half-serious farce, staged way back in 1973, about the libido's clamorous, inescapable demands.

A British adaptation of a French farce staged by an American director, the show feels like a mutt of a drama, unlike "One Man".

"The Walworth Farce," staged to huzzahs at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe last year and scheduled for the National Theater in London in September, is unmistakably an Irish play.

We see this most clearly, and most affectingly, in Davis's determination that the play – a classic farce – be staged on a set that's cut down to the cast's proportions.

I can't remember when, if ever, Pedro Almodóvar has had as much flamboyant fun as he does in the high-flying comedy "I'm So Excited!" The sex and death, musically infused airline disaster farce is staged at 30,000 feet.

It began as a stage farce, written by Marc Camoletti and given its first big production in Paris in 1962.

Socialist heroes gave way to ordinary citizens on the stage; farce and vaudeville were revived; and absurd, grotesque, and fantastic elements reappeared in new plays.

Based on a stage farce, it was released in 1945, nearly two years after being shot; J Arthur Rank thought the scenes in which Sheridan and Hanley are trying to sleep together would be a bad example for young people.