About Farce
Farce is the most underrated of the comic forms — underrated because it looks easy from the cheap seats and is, in fact, the hardest thing on a stage to do well. The farces gathered here depend on precise timing, clean exits, and a doorway count that the director must respect to within an inch. When farce works, it produces a particular kind of laughter that no other form can replicate: laughter at the spectacle of structure itself, escalating beyond what any of the characters can manage.
All farces in the archive (6)
- Augustus Does His Bit: A True-to-Life Farce — by Bernard Shaw
- The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces — by John Kendrick Bangs
- St. Patrick's Day; Or, The Scheming Lieutenant: A Farce in One Act — by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- The Sleeping-Car: A Farce — by William Dean Howells
- The Albany Depot : a Farce — by William Dean Howells
- The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce — by William Mountfort