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Driftwood Players stage classic British farce
Edmonds :: WA :: USA | 5 days ago
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If you've recently had stitches anywhere in your torso area then you'll want to avoid this show -- or you will understand what "bust a gut" really means. The Driftwood Players present this raucous comedy, which opens at 8 Friday night at the Wade
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Macon Little Theatre bets on laughs with The Nerd
Ho Chi Minh City :: Vietnam | 20 days ago
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Telegraph correspondent The Nerd, opening Friday at Macon Little Theatre, is described as an extraordinarily inventive, side-splitting comedy, according to the theaters news release. First presented by the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre and written
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Secret loves and mistaken identities intersect at Hotel Paradiso
London :: United Kingdom | 20 days ago
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Telegraph correspondent Director Jim Crisp choose Hotel Paradiso, opening Friday at Theatre Macon, with the intent to produce a work new to Middle Georgia. It is always difficult to find new comedies and new comedies that are fun and funny and
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Run for Your Wife – review
London :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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Danny Dyer and Neil Morrissey in Run for Your Wife: woefully dated'. Classic farces of the Feydeau, Aldwych and Whitehall kind have rarely worked in the cinema, and this widely performed stage play by Ray Cooney is no exception. The plot turns upon a
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‘The Fox on the Fairway' makes Chicago-area debut
Cambridge :: United Kingdom | 4 months ago
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The Fox on the Fairway' makes Chicago-area debut Lance Baker (from left), Michael Mahler and Norm Boucher star in the Chicago-area premiere of "The Fox on the Fairway" at Theatre at the Center in Munster, Ind. Michael Brosilow photo Updated: February
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Review: Moonlight goes broad with ‘Leading Ladies' farce
Philadelphia :: PA :: USA | 5 months ago
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Avo Playhouse, 303 Main St., Vista Tickets: $22-$30 Phone: (760) 724-2110 Online: The first rule in farce is that in order for it to work onstage, the characters need to be grounded in reality, their actions and reactions sincere. That's true only
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Sauce for the Goose
London :: United Kingdom | 5 months ago
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Donald Cooper for the Guardian Is there anything funnier in the history of farce than the central act of this 1896 Georges Feydeau play, originally entitled Le Dindon ? The comic highpoint comes when a retired army doctor and his deaf wife retire to
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Sauce for the Goose, Orange Tree, Richmond
London :: United Kingdom | 6 months ago
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Suggested Topics Farce with its panic-propelled exits and entrances and its heavy dependence on doors should not officially work in in-the-round theatres. But at the Orange Tree, which has a rich festive tradition of staging the works of Feydeau and
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Best theatre of 2012, No 6: Noises Off
London :: United Kingdom | 6 months ago
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Make 'em laugh Karl Johnson and Celia Imrie in Noises Off by Michael Frayn at London's Old Vic. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian A play-within-a-play about a touring company schlepping a distinctly creaky farce winkingly titled Nothing On
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Stage Door lets the ‘Rumors’ fly
New York City :: NY :: USA | 8 months ago
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Rumors , written in 1988, is Simon's successful stab at traditional farce. Now at the Stage Door Theatre in Coral Springs, the play has all the elements on a farce checklist: seven doors to slam (or not), stairs that will require one character to run
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