Great Farce plays

[Broadwayluva]

Great Farce plays#1

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]

re: Great Farce plays#2

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.

"If my life weren't funny, it would just be true. And that would be unacceptable." --Carrie Fisher

[Mister Matt]

re: Great Farce plays#2

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

A Flea in Her Ear
Don't Dress for Dinner

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

[CAX]

re: Great Farce plays#3

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

La Bete.

[yeomansden]

re: Great Farce plays#4

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...

"Are you calling me a procrastibator?" Hunter, [title of show] "Guess who's gonna get blamed for the war in Europe?" Eugene, Brighton Beach Memoirs

[sabrelady]

re: Great Farce plays#5

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

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

[brandonm2]

re: Great Farce plays#6

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

NOISES OFF!

[roseaddams]

re: Great Farce plays#7

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

Definitely seconding Noises Off.

"You mean what was the best picture of the year or what did they pick as the best picture of the year?" - California Suite

[willact4food]

re: Great Farce plays#8

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

Is He Dead

[Taryn]

re: Great Farce plays#9

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

Rumors by Neil Simon

[monestere]

re: Great Farce plays#10

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

MARY, MARY by Jean Kerr

My Avatar is the amazing young singer, James Anest

[Tom1071]

re: Great Farce plays#11

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

WHAT THE BUTLER SAW by Joe Orton

[janice4]

re: Great Farce plays#12

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

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

[CAX]

re: Great Farce plays#13

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

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

[RachelO]

re: Great Farce plays#14

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

The Nerd!

[fashionguru_23]

re: Great Farce plays#15

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

I third Noises Off

[harris007]

re: Great Farce plays#16

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

Lend me a tenor

Attend the tale of Bovine Boy His party threads we all enjoy But does he have Mad Cow Disease? He doesn't eat beef - but cows skating? - oh please!!! With cocoa!?! And lemonade!?! The heifer-mad poster of Broadway (World)

[yeomansden]

re: Great Farce plays#17

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

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

"Are you calling me a procrastibator?" Hunter, [title of show] "Guess who's gonna get blamed for the war in Europe?" Eugene, Brighton Beach Memoirs

[Inigomontoya]

re: Great Farce plays#18

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

Funny money

[ggersten]

re: Great Farce plays#19

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]

re: Great Farce plays#20

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.

<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.

-Dre- You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree.
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
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~Curtains~
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~A Tale of Two Cities ~

[Vincent Bergeron]

re: Great Farce plays#21

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]

re: Great Farce plays#22

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

Who wrote The Bush Years?

[lull89]

re: Great Farce plays#23

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]

re: Great Farce plays#24

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

LEADING LADIES by Ken Ludwig

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