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Author : David Rogers
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780871296146
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (961 download)
Download or read book May the Farce be with You written by David Rogers and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1978 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Foss
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849436029
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)
Download or read book May the Farce Be With You written by Roger Foss and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-27 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems a long way from Moliere to Ray Cooney. There are immense distances between the worlds of Aristophanes, Plautus, Georges Feydeau, Ben Travers, Joe Orton and Basil Fawlty. But as one of the oldest genres in the history of the theatre, farce bridges the gaps by generating gales of helpless belly laughter across the generations. Inspired by John Mortimer’s observation that farce is 'tragedy played at a thousand revolutions a minute', theatre critic Roger Foss embarks on a lightning tour of the rib-tickling world of confused characters, absurd situations, ruined reputations, sexual innuendo and bravura comic acting and finds out if farce really is a force to be reckoned with in the 21st century. The latest addition to the Oberon Masters series, May The Farce Be With You celebrates the great creators and performers of farce, notably master farceur Ray Cooney, who celebrates his 80th birthday in 2012, in essays that will inform and entertain both the aficionado and anyone with a sense of humour.
Author : Lucretius Jones
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539377658
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (776 download)
Download or read book May the Farce Be With You! written by Lucretius Jones and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the end of The Toxic Mismanagement of Freedonia, beleaguered civil servant Sancho Tonto was ready to abandon the strange, dysfunctional world of Freedonian bureaucracy. Instead, he has chosen to continue to fight a losing battle against a system that favors profit over the environment, poverty, and people. Sancho holds on to his position in the Freedonia Advance Repair Team (FART) while accumulating a store of information related to mismanaged government resources and the self-interested old boys who run the show. Those same old boys suspect Sancho is the author of a satirical account of their many failings, but they lack the evidence they need to move against him-although that doesn't stop them from making his life miserable. While a new and erratic president panders to the global oligarchy, Sancho bears witness to mishandled environmental crises, homegrown terrorism, chronic gun violence, and a police force whose growing brutality illustrates its transformation from a peacekeeping body into a militant force at the beck and call of Freedonian elites. A biting, Swiftian account of bureaucratic ineptitude and corruption, The Toxic Mismanagement of Freedonia 2.0 is an account of a dystopian society only a discomforting step or two away from reality.
Author : Mark Lloyd
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091752
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Prologue to a Farce written by Mark Lloyd and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both.”--James Madison, 1822 Mark Lloyd has crafted a complex and powerful assessment of the relationship between communication and democracy in the United States. In Prologue to a Farce, he argues that citizens’ political capabilities depend on broad public access to media technologies, but that the U.S. communications environment has become unfairly dominated by corporate interests. Drawing on a wealth of historical sources, Lloyd demonstrates that despite the persistent hope that a new technology (from the telegraph to the Internet) will rise to serve the needs of the republic, none has solved the fundamental problems created by corporate domination. After examining failed alternatives to the strong publicly owned communications model, such as antitrust regulation, the public trustee rules of the Federal Communications Commission, and the underfunded public broadcasting service, Lloyd argues that we must re-create a modern version of the Founder’s communications environment, and offers concrete strategies aimed at empowering citizens.
Author : Jessie Jones
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822236869
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)
Download or read book Farce of Habit written by Jessie Jones and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic fireworks explode in FARCE OF HABIT, an absurdly funny Southern-fried romp that takes us back to the Reel ’Em Inn, the finest little fishing lodge in the Ozarks. The proprietor, D. Gene Wilburn, is looking forward to a peaceful weekend on the lake. But there are only two chances of that happening: slim and none. Why, for example, has his wife, Wanelle, picked these three days to white-knuckle her way through caffeine withdrawal? Why is his son Ty’s marriage to Jenna falling apart so fast? Could it have something to do with the French can-can costume Ty is wearing? How on earth would D. Gene’s feisty sister, Maxie, allow herself to get caught up in such a bizarre undercover police assignment? And that’s just his family. If this isn’t enough to thwart D. Gene’s weekend plans, he’s got a gaggle of nuns who’ve converged on the Inn, hell-bent on experiencing a nature retreat—which might be tolerable if D. Gene didn’t have a chronic fear of anything in a habit. Add to this the presence of Jock McNair, a nationally known relationship guru whose colossal ego threatens everyone’s sanity; a shy retiree anxious to cut loose and embrace his “inner caveman” and a couple of wild women who may or may not be who they claim to be. Throw in the storm of the century that’s fast bearing down on Mayhew, Arkansas, and D. Gene has no prayer of baiting a hook any time soon. Oh, and did we mention there’s an axe murderer on the loose? If you enjoy gloriously preposterous hilarity, then laughing your way through the take-no-prisoners lunacy of a Jones Hope Wooten comedy is one habit you’ll never want to break!
Author : Hank Hanegraaff
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1418515094
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)
Download or read book The Face That Demonstrates the Farce of Evolution written by Hank Hanegraaff and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2001-02-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking into the face of our alleged ape ancestor, popular Christian apologist Hank Hanegraaff dissects and debunks the astonishingly weak arguments for the evolutionary theory, revealing it as nothing more than a "fairy tale for grown-ups." The author uses his own Memory Dynamics to make it easy for Christians to speak intelligently about evolution and speak persuasively about the Creator.
Author : Albert Bermel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780809316458
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Farce written by Albert Bermel and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farce elicits an immediate, elemental response from all age levels, cutting across national and intellectual boundaries. It dates back to people’s first attempts to scoff in public at whatever their neighbors cherished in private: social prestige, eccentricities, virtues that are vices, friendships, and enmities. Albert Bermel, teacher, writer, and translator of farce, takes readers on an instructive and hilarious voyage from the classical Greek stage through English Restoration and French farce, to the young Hollywood of Mack Sennett, Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd, the other silent farceurs of the Jazz Age, and on to W. C. Fields, Mae West, Sid Caesar, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, and Monty Python—including other greats along the way like Hope and Crosby, Laurel and Hardy, and the Marx Brothers.
Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781683778
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)
Download or read book First as Tragedy, Then as Farce written by Slavoj Zizek and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billions of dollars were hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilisation. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis? In this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj Zizek frames the moral failures of the modern world in terms of the epoch-making events of the first decade of this century. What he finds is the old one-two punch of history: the jab of tragedy, the right hook of farce. In the attacks of 9/11 and the global credit crunch, liberalism dies twice: as a political doctrine and as an economic theory. The election of Donald Trump only confirms the bankruptcy of a liberal order on its last legs. First as Tragedy, Then as Farce is a call for the left to reinvent itself in the light of our desperate historical situation. The time for liberal, moralistic blackmail is over.
Author : Michael Frayn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350184861
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Noises Off written by Michael Frayn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As finely worked as a Swiss watch and as funny as the human condition permits ... the zigzag brilliance of the text as the clunky lines of the farce-within-a-farce rub against the sharp dialogue of reality.” The Guardian A play-within-a-play following a touring theatre company who are rehearsing and performing a comedy called Nothing On, results in a riotous double-bill of comedic craft and dramatic skill. Hurtling along at breakneck speed it shows the backstage antics as they stumble through the dress-rehearsal at Weston-super-Mare, then on to a disastrous matinee at Ashton-under-Lyne, followed by a total meltdown in Stockton-on-Tees. Michael Frayn's irresistible, multi-award-winning backstage farce has been enjoyed by millions of people worldwide since it premiered in 1982 and has been hailed as one of the greatest British comedies ever written. Winner of both Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Comedy. This edition features a new introduction by Michael Blakemore.
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Publisher : Scott Skipper
ISBN 13 : 1301250767
Total Pages : 695 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Hundred Years Farce written by and published by Scott Skipper. This book was released on with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mr. Hook (James)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Catch him who can, a musical farce in two acts ... written by T. E. Hook. Op. 113 written by Mr. Hook (James) and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hal Foster
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788738128
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)
Download or read book What Comes After Farce written by Hal Foster and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If farce follows tragedy, what follows farce? Where does the double predicament of a post-truth and post-shame politics leave artists and critics on the left? How to demystify a hegemonic order that dismisses its own contradictions? How to belittle a political elite that cannot be embarrassed, or to mock party leaders who thrive on the absurd? How to out-dada President Ubu? And, in any event, why add outrage to a media economy that thrives on the same? What Comes After Farce? comments on shifts in art, criticism, and fiction in the face of the current regime of war, surveillance, extreme inequality, and media disruption. A first section focuses on the cultural politics of emergency since 9/11, including the use and abuse of trauma, paranoia, and kitsch. A second reviews the neoliberal makeover of art institutions during the same period. Finally, a third section surveys transformations in media as reflected in recent art, film, and fiction. Among the phenomena explored here are "machine vision" (images produced by machines for other machines without a human interface),"operational images" (images that do not represent the world so much as intervene in it), and the algorithmic scripting of information so pervasive in our everyday lives.
Author : Larry Kramer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780881450699
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Just Say No written by Larry Kramer and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lauren Gunderson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0822237725
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (222 download)
Download or read book The Book of Will written by Lauren Gunderson and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.
Author : James Bruton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Bathing: a farce, in one act written by James Bruton and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Betzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (225 download)
Download or read book May the Farce be with You written by Dan Betzer and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Trondheim
Publisher : Europe Comics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Venezia written by Trondheim and published by Europe Comics. This book was released on 2019-11-20T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After their first explosive encounter, Giuseppe and Sophia hate one another with a passion. As fate would have it, both have a secret identity permitting them to conduct investigations incognito. Once his false mustache and wig are removed, Giuseppe becomes "the Eagle." And when her tights and black hood are donned, Sophia transforms into "the Black Scorpion." The Eagle and the Scorpion feel an irresistible attraction for one another... but will they share their first kiss and track down the mysterious "Codex Bellum" before Giuseppe and Sophia tear each other into beautiful little pieces?
