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Petrov-Vodkin's Theatre.Farce. (c. 1870s) Poster for a production of Boucicault's farce Contempt of Court, c. 1879 Farce is a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable. [1]
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.
The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play.
Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. [1]
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The satyr play was a farcical short work that came after a trilogy of multi-act serious drama plays. A few notable examples of one act plays emerged before the 19th century including various versions of the Everyman play and works by Moliere and Calderon. [1]
“Pritchett allows his story to be far more plot-driven than usual and even uses farce effectively. He does so while showing no sign of strain; in fact his narrative style - light, assured and unselfconscious - will remind many readers of Evelyn Waugh.” —Literary critic John J. Stinson in V. S. Pritchett: A Study of the Short Fiction (1992).
Getty Villa – Storage Jar with a chorus of Stilt walkers – inv. VEX.2010.3.65. A Greek chorus (Ancient Greek: χορός, romanized: chorós) in the context of ancient Greek tragedy, comedy, satyr plays, is a homogeneous group of performers, who comment with a collective voice on the action of the scene they appear in, or provide necessary insight into action which has taken place offstage ...