"That was a great big farce, but I was young and dumb and it worked," Huffins said.
Panics, and moral panics especially, make for great farce in retrospect.
It typifies a great farce performance in which innocence is corrupted by experience.
The larger problem comes when Washington is so full of tragedies that it begins to look like one great farce.
Mistaken identity makes for great farce, and, paradoxically, identical twinship provides a way to examine what makes us different.
But, for all the verve of John Mortimer's adaptation, I'd say Lindsay Posner's production is pleasantly diverting while rarely achieving the dizzying dementia of great farce.
Scott Ellis's production of Orton's great farce of sexual hypocrisy, which also stars Alec Baldwin, is breezy, often funny and rarely convincing.
In "Bergdorf Blondes," Sykes rounds up all the right satiric details, then never quite turns them into great farce or parody because the fascist force of the plotting insists that her narrator be strangely imbecilic.
That, perhaps, is the real message of a book that, in the main, avoids messages, that does not preach or proselytise, but simmers with frustration and anger at the great farce that is America's so-called war on crime.
(Lawrence Van Gelder) 'ENTERTAINING MR. Scott Ellistt Ellis's underpowered production of Joe Orton's great farce of sexual hypocrisy, which stars Alec Baldwin in a comedy sketch of a performance, is breezy, often funny and rarely convincing.
