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It's still a bit off-kilter: "Don't you love farce?/ My fault I fear".
ELIZABETH "The Triumph of Love," farce by Pierre Marivaux, adapted by Bonnie J. Monte Shakespearee Theater of New Jersey.
For those of us who love farce and think A Comedy of Errors every bit as good a play as King Lear, this is excellent news.
And I love farce as a form precisely because it specialises in reversals: so that sometimes, like in Chaplin's "The Great Dictator," someone evil becomes graceful, like the moment where Chaplin's dictator dances with an inflatable globe; or, more ususally, it puts grand characters in such unbecoming poses — both physical and ethical.
Don't you love farce?
The Elvis jukebox musical which played a brief run on Broadway in 2005, is in fact based on the gender bending love farce Twelfth Night, using the King of Rock's greatest hits to adapt the story to a 1950s middle America set musical comedy.
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Phillips' love of farce binds him with Upton for A Flea in the Ear, which grew out of the French belle époque.
Everybody loves a farce, right?
'It's not that love's a farce — it doesn't exist.' . . .
He is working on a sitcom with his son as well as a sequel to the 1979 vampire farce "Love at First Bite".
Today, in any case, it is often thought of more as a crooner's staple or a musical prop (as in Billy Wilder's 1957 farce "Love in the Afternoon") than as a work of art.
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