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The best known farce is La Farce de maître Pathelin (The Farce of Master Pathelin) from c. 1460. [3] Spoof films such as Spaceballs, a comedy based on the Star Wars movies, are farces. [4] Sir George Grove opined that the "farce" began as a canticle in the common French tongue intermixed with Latin. It became a vehicle for satire and fun, and ...
Rix built a company of regular players who appeared in some or all of these shows. They included Leo Franklyn, Larry Noble, Dennis Ramsden and Derek Royle, [13] and members of Rix's family: his wife, Elspet Gray, his sister, Sheila Mercier and his brother-in-law, Peter Mercier.
Rix was the author of two autobiographies, My Farce From My Elbow (1974) and Farce About Face (1989), and two theatre histories, Tour de Farce and Life in the Farce Lane. He also edited, compiled and contributed to Gullible's Travails, an anthology of travel stories by famous people for the Mencap Blue Sky Appeal.
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. He said, "It was funnier from behind than in front, and I thought that one day I must write a farce from behind."
Feydeau was born at his parents' house in the Rue de Clichy, Paris, on 8 December 1862. [3] His father, Ernest-Aimé Feydeau (1821–1873), was a financier and a moderately well-known writer, whose first novel Fanny (1858) was a succès de scandale and earned him some notoriety.
Michael Frayn, FRSL (/ f r eɪ n /; born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist.He is best known as the author of the farce Noises Off [8] and the dramas Copenhagen and Democracy.
Out of the 83 recorded works of Nestroy, a total of some 56 were designated as some form of Posse, meaning a farce or 'broad comedy', including 32 Possen mit Gesang (farce with singing). There are eight Parodien, or parodies (two of them also designated as Possen), plus two Burlesken and one 'Travestie').
The Atellan Farce was a masked farce that originated in Italy by 300 B.C.and remained popular for more than 500 years. Originally, the farces were improvised and not recorded. [6] Evidence of the original forms is scarce, primarily found in the depictions of scenes and characters on ancient vases. [6]