Sentence examples for play a farce from inspiring English sources

She has been trying for a decade to mount a production of the play, a farce about an opera singer who falls apart.

Since its 1982 London premiere, audiences have roared approbation for Michael Frayn's similarly convention-bending play – a farce-within-a-farce about a touring troupe whose intimate workings are revealed over the course of three acts: at the dress rehearsal, backstage during the run and on stage on the last night.

Currently this is playing like a farce.

Now they are playing a part in a farce.

Just Say No: A Play About a Farce (1988) was a barbed takedown of U.S. Pres.

The translation was supposedly faithful to Molière, but the production turned the play into a farce.

In "Melancholy Play" (2002), a farce about suffering, Ruhl dramatized the point.

You are teary one moment, then realize that the play is a farce, funny indeed.

Directed by Michael Wilson, Hartford Stage's artistic director, the play is a farce that appealed to audiences of all ages.

Brandon Cole, who wrote "Imperfect Love," calls his play a romantic farce, but it never quite ascends to that level of antic lunacy, and in any case there is something in the work that suggests a serious intention.

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.