Great Farce plays

[Broadwayluva]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 2:04pm

I'm looking for a great farce play to read for my Acting class. If it happens to have a good female monologue in it, even better! Thanks for any help!

[WOSQ]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 2:44pm

Start will all Georges Feydeaux, the source of the term "Fedeaux farce". [I am almost certain I have spelled his surname incorrectly.]

Hotel Paradiso is a splendid one with which to begin.

Farces aren't known for monologues since the humor is dependent upon action as opposed to words.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 2:47pm

A Flea in Her Ear
Don't Dress for Dinner

[CAX]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 3:34pm

La Bete.

[yeomansden]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 4:03pm

I'm a little pedestrian in my taste in farce...I love British sex farce, and that general genre. So:

No Sex Please, We're British
Boeing-Boeing (LOVED the recent revival)
The Ritz (also loved the revival a couple of years ago...not a whole lot of good female roles in this one, though...)

Just a thought...would The Matchmaker be considered a farce? Lots of physical humor in that one, but a lot of word play as well...and a GREAT female monologue for Dolly Levi...

[sabrelady]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 4:49pm

believe Aresenic and Old Lace would qualify.
"... so brother married her"

[brandonm2]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 4:51pm

NOISES OFF!

[roseaddams]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 5:06pm

Definitely seconding Noises Off.

[willact4food]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 6:10pm

Is He Dead

[Taryn]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 8:08pm

Rumors by Neil Simon

[monestere]

Posted: 9/30/09 at 8:46pm

MARY, MARY by Jean Kerr

[Tom1071]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 12:43pm

WHAT THE BUTLER SAW by Joe Orton

[janice4]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 2:14pm

Run for your wife, and Noises Off, come to mind.

[CAX]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 4:22pm

The Bush Years... Best farce written in a number of years.

[RachelO]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 5:19pm

The Nerd!

[fashionguru_23]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 8:17pm

I third Noises Off

[harris007]

Posted: 10/1/09 at 10:02pm

Lend me a tenor

[yeomansden]

Posted: 10/2/09 at 10:06am

oh, the Lend Me a Tenor post reminded me...Moon over Buffalo

[Inigomontoya]

Posted: 10/2/09 at 10:13am

Funny money

[ggersten]

Posted: 10/2/09 at 2:10pm

Charley's Aunt.
(And seconds to What the Butler Saw, Noises Off and Lend Me A Tenor)
(And Noises Off does start with a female monologue - but it's not funny in and of itself)

[Dre2387]

Posted: 10/2/09 at 6:01pm

def. agree with Noises Off and Is He Dead.

but Georges Feydeaux's A Little Hotel On the Side is hysterical! I saw it done perfectly this past summer where it had non-stop laughter from beginning to end.

[Vincent Bergeron]

Posted: 10/20/09 at 12:02am

Run for your wives (Ray Conney)
Caught on the Net (Ray conney)

Cash on Delivery (Michael Cooney)

[Vincent Bergeron]

Posted: 10/20/09 at 12:09am

Who wrote The Bush Years?

[lull89]

Posted: 10/20/09 at 12:28am

On the Razzle- Tom Stoppard (which is actually based on the same play that inspired The Matchmaker, but doesn't have The Matchmaker in it).

[UAisGREAT]

Posted: 10/20/09 at 3:00pm

LEADING LADIES by Ken Ludwig

Its a wonderfully funny play that deserves a commercial run somewhere.