Sentence examples for played farce from inspiring English sources

In America she has played farce, Shakespeare and modern drama with unvarying excellence.

Subtlety is not a requirement — or even an asset — when playing farce, and the cast of "Don't Dress for Dinner" certainly makes no attempt to underplay.

These actors, nourished by a theatrical tradition stretching back to the fifteenth century, know how to play farce (exaggerate everything, but not too much).

Neil's relationship with his suffocatingly adoring mother (Carol Kane), however, is played for farce.

The scene is played as farce and so works all right.

By the third season's finale, a face-off with the smirky Governor and his followers, the plot had become so baldly illogical that it played as farce.

Given the nature of the material, which comes to a climax with half of London's criminal and Secret Service personnel chasing the baffled thieves, you would expect the movie to be played as farce, or perhaps as a satire on the manners of the upper class.

Walsh offers a tragedy played as farce set in a high-rise block on the Walworth Road, where every day Cork man Dinny and his two grown-up sons Blake and Sean re-enact Dinny's fantasy of the bloody events that led him to leave Ireland for England.

But she takes her seriously (which is essential when playing farce).

It plays as farce, but the chords of family tragedy resonate underneath the laughter.

The stage work that followed included playing in farce in Johannesburg at £140 a week.