bedroom farce


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bedroom farce

n (Theatre) → pochade f inv
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Which British dramatist wrote Absurd Person Singular and Bedroom Farce? 4.
As he tells Gulf News tabloid!, he has played "a decent range of characters for someone who is considered selective" -- be it 'Mor Mahal's' Mughal prince who wears his heart on his sleeve, or 'Maalkin's' pauper; the "creepy dude" in 'Kuch Na Kaho', or the "whiny, middle-aged, bed-ridden Brit" in the stage play, 'Bedroom Farce'.
Q Tell us about your show A This year's SmallStages show is Ravel's exhilarating one-act bedroom farce, A Spanish Hour (L'heure espagnole).
This 18th Century bedroom farce is not meant to be taken seriously, though in the end, real love is seen to endure against the odds.
Ayckbourn's own short synopsis of Bedroom Farce describes it as: "A highly-strung couple wreak havoc in the bedrooms of three other couples during a single night." It focuses initially on the marital troubles of one couple, Trevor and Susannah, but dissatisfaction soon spreads like an infection to those around them.
A bedroom farce set in a single hotel corridor and penned in Shakespeare's beloved iambic pentameter, it saw him play an Iago-esque bodyguard to Rory Kinnear's uppity and sexually perverse minor royal.
His work as a theatre director included the world premieres of Harold Pinter's "The Homecoming" (1965), Peter Shaffer's "Amadeus" (1979) and the London and Broadway premieres of Alan Ayckbourn's "Bedroom Farce" (1977).
Part hoary old tale about a scary woman who runs a remote B n' B, part whip-sharp comedy with elements of bedroom farce and survival horror thrown in.
But if anyone can rise to the challenge it's Black RAT Productions, the Welsh theatre company which has made its name for staging slapstick comedies like Boeing Boeing and Bedroom Farce.
But it's not the start of a bedroom farce for the French international - he's just taken over the lease after the Reds manager and his wife moved out.
Muscat: From an old married couple to newlyweds, friends and exes, the Ras Al Hamra Amateur Dramatics Society's cast of Bedroom Farce had its audiences in stitches as it explored the dynamics of different relationships.
The prolific writer works at his seaside mansion and his successes include Bedroom Farce, Private Fears in Public Places, Smoking No Smoking, The Revenger's Comedies and A Chorus of Disapproval.