Sentence examples for for a farce from inspiring English sources
This is heavy freight for a farce with zombies.
Yet in the past couple of months it has become the setting for a farce – an especially odd farce, mind, that winds up making you furious.
"Tonton" being an affectionate term for uncle, and "flingueur" being underworld slang for assassin, "Les Tontons Flingueurs" becomes a flavorful but untranslatable title for a farce about the battle of succession that ensues when a Parisian crime boss dies and leaves his empire to his naïve, apple-cheeked daughter (Sabine Sinjen).
The upstairs hallway seems like a stage set for a farce because there are so many doors: to the TV room, the master bedroom, her daughter's room, the future exercise room and the hall that leads to a guest room, the back stairs and the third floor.
Ashford and his tech team created a lavish bedroom set with enough doors for a farce that the actors have to keep opening and closing (the original had imaginary doors); a king-sized bed at center stage; billowy curtains that lead onto a gallery that runs around the room; and three ceiling fans.
We are in for days of a farce that serves politics but does not serve the truth.
It was perhaps surprising casting, and he was widely presumed to be the inspiration for Tobias, a character in Edward St Aubyn's latest novel, Lost For Words, a farce based on the judging of a fictional book prize.
"DON'T DRESS FOR DINNER," a farce by Marc Camoletti ("Boeing-Boeing"), is an example of the If-It-Worked-Once approach to producing.
Ben Daniels, Jennifer Tilly, Melora Hardin, and Adam James star in Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner," a farce about a tangle of infidelities, mistaken and otherwise.
Because of an editing error, an article in Friday's theatre section transposed the identifications of two people involved in the production of "Waiting for Bruce," a farce now in rehearsal at the Rivoli.
By Calvin Trillin Because of an editing error, an article in Friday's theatre section transposed the identifications of two people involved in the production of "Waiting for Bruce," a farce now in rehearsal at the Rivoli.
