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The Whitehall farces were a series of five long-running comic stage plays at the Whitehall Theatre in London, presented by the actor-manager Brian Rix, in the 1950s and 1960s. They were in the low comedy tradition of British farce , following the Aldwych farces , which played at the Aldwych Theatre between 1924 and 1933.
The best known farce is La Farce de maître Pathelin (The Farce of Master Pathelin) from c. 1460. [3] Spoof films such as Spaceballs, a comedy based on the Star Wars movies, are farces. [4] Sir George Grove opined that the "farce" began as a canticle in the common French tongue intermixed with Latin. It became a vehicle for satire and fun, and ...
One-Act Farce: Prince of Wales's Theatre: 1867-11-04 Highly Improbable: One-Act Farce Royalty Theatre: 1867-12-05 A Colossal Idea [first pub. 1932] One-Act Farce unperformed N/A Harlequin Cock Robin and Jenny Wren; or, Fortunatus and the Water of Life, the Three Bears, the Three Gifts, the Three Wishes, and the Little Man who Woo'd the Little ...
This is a complete list of the plays of the Austrian singer-actor-playwright Johann Nestroy (1801–1862). Genres ... meaning a farce or 'broad comedy', ...
For plays in the French language, created by either citizens of France or francophone playwrights in other countries, ... La Farce de maître Pathelin;
Feydeau in 1899, painted by his father-in-law, Carolus-Duran Georges-Léon-Jules-Marie Feydeau [n 1] (French: [ʒɔʁʒ fɛ.do]; 8 December 1862 – 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the Belle Époque era, remembered for his farces, written between 1886 and 1914.
The two Aldwych farces not filmed by members of the company were It Pays to Advertise and A Bit of a Test. The first of these plays was an updated and Anglicised adaptation of an American play of 1914; a version of the original play was filmed in the US in 1931, starring Norman Foster, Carole Lombard, and Richard "Skeets" Gallagher.
Noises Off is a 1982 farce by the English playwright Michael Frayn.. Frayn conceived the idea in 1970 while watching from the wings a performance of The Two of Us, a farce that he had written for Lynn Redgrave.