Sentence examples for good farce from inspiring English sources
In good farce the situations may be absurd, but the characters are real.
In a way, putting on a good farce had become a civic responsibility.
(As for "Lend Me a Tenor," I happen to like good farce, but felt Mr. Ludwig's simply wasn't an accomplished one).
All good farce starts from a plausible premise: a randy shrink seeks to divest a would-be secretary of her clothes in order to seduce her.
As with all good farce, the plot is arguably credible, not least because grisly murders often take place in remote French villages.
And as in any good funeral farce, there's an uninvited guest (Peter Dinklage in both versions).
Lend Me a Tenor, though it flopped recently in the West End, was that rarity, a really good musical farce.
In the last decade, the only good new farce I've seen is Whipping It Up by Steve Thompson, though strictly speaking it was more of a satire.
Many of Shakespeare's stories are set in abstract places with plots that apply to many cultures - Hamlet is about revenge and a young man who doesn't get on with his step-father, Othello is ostensibly about jealousy and Twelfth Night is a good old farce based on mistaken identity.
The humor is mostly good-natured farce, but the dignified, handsome Professor Oglevee Dorien Wilsonn), with whom Nikki is smitten, seems intended to keep the genteel Cosby legacy alive.
