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	Farce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many farces move at a frantic pace toward the climax, in which the initial problem is resolved one way or another, often through a deus ex machina twist of the plot.
		Farce in general is highly tolerant of transgressive behavior, and tends to depict human beings as vain, irrational, venal, infantile, and prone to automatism.
		Farce is, in fact, not merely a genre but a highly flexible dramatic mode that often occurs in combination with other forms, including romantic comedy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Farce (704 words)

	Boundary Players - Bedroom Farce
		In Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce the stage is set with three bedrooms, that of Trevor's parents, of Jan and Nick (Jan being one of Trevor's old flames) and of Malcolm and Kate, the poor couple who hold the party that Trevor and Susannah so successfully ruin with their arguments.
		A complex lighting plot was required as the lights switched from bedroom to bedroom, and this was well-handled and cued by the crew.
		Bedroom Farce is not so dark some of the later Ayckbourn comedies and provides plenty of good laughs and is very suitable for a mixed audience of all ages - this was evident from a super response from the audience on the first night.
	www.newburytheatre.co.uk /archive/200401c.htm (400 words)

	Press Release
		Steve Elliott-Gower (a veteran of the Athens community theater scene) is directing the eight-member ensemble for "Bedroom Farce" with assistance from Catherine Clayton and Kelly Caudle.
		"Bedroom Farce," which premiered at the National Theatre in 1977, ran for two years before opening on Broadway in 1979 with its original London cast.
		Tickets for "Bedroom Farce" are $12 on Friday and Saturday nights ($10 for children, students, seniors, and members), and $5 on Thursday night and Sunday matinee (for everyone!).
	www.mindspring.com /~rowell.allen/bedroomfarce/id14.html (533 words)

	Comentary on Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn
		When the French say, "Bedroom Farce" they mean mistaken identities, people going in and out of doors and just missing each other, and beds not used for sleeping.
		The "stage" consists of the master bedrooms in three different houses and the action is mostly conversation.
		Meanwhile, in the third bedroom, Trevor's parents, Ernest and Delia are celebrating their anniversary by eating pilchard and toast in bed.
	www.uucpa.org /thespians/bedroom-farce.html (272 words)

	'Bedroom Farce' to examine relationships
		"Bedroom Farce," written by Alan Ayckbourn, tells the story of Susannah and Trevor, a couple whose marriage is heading for disaster.
		The set consists of three side-by-side bedrooms, which were designed by James Morris-Smith, director of theatre facilities at the Joan C. Edwards Playhouse.
		The bedrooms are those of Susannah and Trevor's family and friends.
	www.marshall.edu /parthenon/archives/20000405/news/bedroom.html (396 words)

	indielondon.co.uk - theatre - Bedroom Farce
		ALAN Ayckbourn's play Bedroom Farce is not a farce at all; the characters are far too believable.
		The bedroom of Ernest and Delia, parents of Trevor, the bedroom of Nick and Jan, Jan having been a former sweetheart of Trevor, and the bedroom of Kate and Malcolm who are throwing a party.
		The director and designer have triumphed over the difficulties of having three separate bedrooms on the stage at once and apart from some oddly obscuring lighting effects (I was sitting quite near the stage in the stalls) I found little about which to complain.
	www.indielondon.co.uk /theatre/t_bedroom_farce_prev.html (543 words)

	Bedroom Farce
		This production, set onstage with three bedrooms, divided by interesting walls and unique decorations, with the lights dimming or brightening on each bedroom as the action switches from one of the four couples to another, or from one member of the couple to another bedroom.
		In fact, the bedrooms are the scenes of the plot, which is a about the difficulties of sustaining relationships and interrelationships between men and women and somewhat between adult children and parents.
		Ayckbourn to study a bit more the traditional French farce structure and to add the wild and wanton to his future creations, in order to develop the layers of uninterrupted humor and the elements of the unexpected.
	www.robertaonthearts.com /id90.html (645 words)

	Bedroom Farce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Bedroom Farce is a comedy by Alan Aykbourn, probably Britain's greatest living writer of comedy.
		As the title suggests, the whole play taked place in bedrooms, three different ones to be precise.
		However all three preparations disaster by the marital problems of Trevor and his wife, who invade each couple in their bedroom.
	www.blackhatstation.com /Theatre/bedfarce.htm (218 words)

	HSRT Opens with British Comedy Bedroom Farce / 2004-2005 / Archive / Press Releases / Hope - Hope College
		"Bedroom Farce," which runs in rotation from June 24 to July 28, takes a keen eye to the marriages of four couples who are all at different points in their relationships.
		Written by Alan Ayckbourn, often called "the British Neil Simon," the show tells the comings and goings in three bedrooms as one self-absorbed couple attempts to save their marriage as they wreak havoc on everyone else.
		In one night the bickering couple manages to interrupt a wedding anniversary, spoil a house-warming party, and add misery to Nick and Jan's evening, which was not going well to begin with.
	www.hope.edu /pr/pressreleases/content/view/full/5611 (402 words)

	Salon.com Politics \| Another bedroom farce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The latest example of this is a false claim that former Enron CEO Ken Lay stayed in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House during the Clinton administration.
		Because the facts are so obviously wrong, however, the Lincoln Bedroom myth didn’t reach critical mass until the past week, when it was given a new lease on life by two conservatives.
		In a Feb. 15 letter to the editor in the Portland Oregonian, the myth was repeated, and it seems only to be growing, as even greater numbers of writers fail to check their facts.
	archive.salon.com /politics/col/spinsanity/2002/02/21/lincoln (545 words)

	Bedroom Farce 1979
		Possibly one of Ayckbourn’s funniest plays, it is about the other things that people do in bedrooms – using them for pilchard picnics, crowded cloakrooms, doomed do-it-yourself and restless resting.
		It’s a play about four couples in three bed-rooms, all of which are presented simultaneously on stage.
		The action of one hectic night shows how Trevor and his wife descend on the three couples in turn leaving chaos and disaster in their wake.
	www.queens-theatre.co.uk /archive/bedroomfarce1979.htm (73 words)

	London Theatre Guide Theatre Current Reviews / Bedroom Farce 2002
		One could be excused for thinking that the title of Alan Ayckbourn’s play “Bedroom Farce” suggests couples falling in and out of the wrong beds with the most ludicrous excuses and deliberate lies being lampooned to try and cover up for its characters indiscretions.
		This play will send most lovers of British farce sound asleep and this is what appeared to have happened to the audience on the evening I saw the play.
		Having never been a fan of farce as a genre, I went to see this with fairly low expectations, but I was pleasantly surprised, at a great play and fantastic performances.
	www.londontheatre.co.uk /londontheatre/reviews/bedroomfarce02.htm (675 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - Bedroom Farce - 11/22/03
		The best joke of Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce is the title, which conjures up images of spicy sex romps, slamming doors, and sublimely ridiculous misunderstandings, only to deliver on none of those things.
		Instead, it focuses on the mundanities of everyday life behind bedroom doors and finds its comedy in more true-to-life characters and their attempts to live sanely in the real world.
		While Bedroom Farce isn't populated with archetypal characters to begin with, it benefits from the suggestion that the eight people it chronicles - who might put on very normal faces when dealing with the outside world - are very different people in their most personal and private of sanctuaries.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /ob/11_22_03.html (609 words)

	Press Release - Moonlight Stage Productions presents “Bedroom Farce”
		“Bedroom Farce” performs at the Avo Playhouse, 303 Main Street in downtown Vista, from November 2 through November 19.
		In “Bedroom Farce,” Trevor and Susannah have a problem relationship requiring urgent attention.
		Tickets for “Bedroom Farce” are available through the VisTix Ticket Office, located at 651 East Vista Way in Vista, or by calling (760) 724-2110.
	www.cityofvista.com /press/release.cfm?eventid=25 (551 words)

	Citrus: Bedroom farce spends a few nights in Citrus
		Citrus: Bedroom farce spends a few nights in Citrus
		Bedroom farce spends a few nights in Citrus
		Halavan said the bedroom farce is suitable for older teens and adults.
	www.sptimes.com /News/020201/Citrus/Bedroom_farce_spends_.shtml (433 words)

	durham21 \| theatre \| Bedroom Farce
		It soon became apparent that the plot revolves around four couples, three of which reside in the bedrooms shown on stage.
		Bedroom Farce was great - one of the best plays i have been involved with in durham
		Neither was anybody we had auditioned, anybody we had mentioned it to, or anybody in the other theatre company which was planning to do it the term after.
	www.durham21.co.uk /archive/archive.asp?ID=2359 (1135 words)

	Castle Players - Bedroom Farce
		ALAN Ayckbourn's play 'Bedroom Farce' may spring to mind (for some of us!) visions of Brian Rix and knobbly kneed men, minus their pyjama bottoms, chasing scantily dressed women around the stage, along with lots of door slamming and over-acting.
		Thankfully, there is none of that in this hilarious modern-day farce which is set in three bedrooms and revolves around the relationships of four couples and how their lives are entangled in each other's.
		It was perfectly cast with old and new members of Castle Players, and Frank Holden expertly directed the performance, keeping the pacey dialogue flowing with slick lighting changes as the audience were taken from bedroom to bedroom.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /donald.colclough/2002BF.htm (587 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Silver Spring Stage's 'Bedroom Farce' Wins Award for Top Play
		Silver Spring Stage won the award for outstanding play for "Bedroom Farce," a frantic English comedy, at the Washington Area Theatre Community Honors gala, which recognized 2004 shows in Virginia, Maryland and the District.
		Several of those honored mentioned long hours away from families during rehearsals, including Pauline Griller-Mitchell, director of Silver Spring's "Bedroom Farce," a fast-paced charade by British playwright Alan Ayckbourn featuring three couples of various ages involved in romantic entanglements.
		The design of the set for "Bedroom Farce," which required three bedrooms, won the award for Outstanding Achievement in Set Construction.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A20503-2005Mar9?language=printer (1002 words)

	Kenyon College - Kenyon College Dramatic Club to present Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce
		Opening Convocation Speeches Read remarks made to the Class of 2010 by President S. Georgia Nugent, Provost Gregory Spaid, and Dean of Students Tammy Gocial.
		Bedroom Farce is set in the simultaneously-shown bedrooms of three very different couples.
		His plays have been translated into thirty-five languages and have been performed on television and recreated as films.
	www.kenyon.edu /x22022.xml (303 words)

	Mainstage - Bedroom Farce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Trevor and Susannah are a couple whose marriage is heading toward the rocks - and the play depicts an endless night in which they inflict their miseries on their nearest and dearest three other couples.
		Taking place sequentially in the three beleaguered couples' bedrooms.
		Trevor and Susannah implicate the others in their public angst - and in the course of one long Saturday night ruffle beds, tempers, marriages and domestic order.
	www.pensacolalittletheatre.com /productions/mainstage/bedroomfarce.html (182 words)

	Stage Calendar: Bedroom Farce to Underpants (Seattle Weekly)
		Bedroom Farce Studies say the more sex a couple has, the happier they are.
		Aside from the false British accents, the acting was right on, the scenarios plausible, and the mood fun, spiraling into manic.
		Bedroom Farce to Underpants — What's on stage this week.
	www.seattleweekly.com /arts/0644/stagecalendar.php (2615 words)

	Bedroom Farce
		This is the story of four couples and their relationships.
		It is set in the bedrooms of three of the couples' flats, with the action moving between them throughout the play.
		With amateur stages being typically smaller than the professional ones, setting plays like this one can be quite a challenge.
	www.twyrusdrama.org.uk /Oct01.htm (101 words)

	MercuryNews.com \| 09/24/2006 \| Bedroom farce fails to feel quite real
		It's a brand-new bedroom farce for the baby boomer set that revisits some age-old themes.
		The loopy supporting figures need to be played off against kitchen-sink realism for the farce to really hit the fan.
		Upshot: A brand-new bedroom farce for the baby boomer set that revisits some age-old themes with mixed results.
	www.mercurynews.com /mld/mercurynews/entertainment/15599933.htm (572 words)

	Ayckbourn's "Bedroom Farce" at Tempe Little Theatre-5/25 to 6/3/01
		Ayckbourn, while sometimes offering great lines and the occasional moment of farce, doesn't quite capture the American funny bone as readily as Mr.
		The plays tend to be longish, filled with British sensibilities and British stereotypes, and forsake deeper comedy for the clever quip.
		whips us to London for Bedroom Farce, a 1975 trifle that presents eight interlocked marriages in various states of decay as they collide on one night.
	www.goldfishpublishers.com /BedroomFarce_TLT.html (518 words)

	Another bedroom farce - Salon
		Despite a complete lack of evidence that this took place, irresponsible or malicious journalists have repeated this lie so often that it is on its way to being accepted as fact.
		Gene Lyons of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is the only person to refute the claim in print thus far (on Feb. 13).
		As Spinsanitys Ben Fritz pointed out, Barnes and GOP operative Alex Castellanos said Lay stayed in the Lincoln Bedroom under Clinton on separate cable talk shows on Feb. 14, and Castellanos made the same claim Sunday on ABCs "This Week."
	dir.salon.com /story/politics/col/spinsanity/2002/02/21/lincoln/index.html (503 words)

	Tread The Boards Archive - Bedroom Farce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Group members have contibuted their Memories of the show and we have a section of Memorabilia & Pictures.
		The set calls for three bedrooms, and these were represented with three mattresses (salvaged from a furniture shop in Newport Pagnell) made up as beds and three bedside tables.
		By switching the lighting from bed to bed as the action moved, we achieved the desired effect.
	www.tread-the-boards.org.uk /bedroom_farce.html (192 words)

	Bedroom Farce
		Their volcanic relationship destroys parties, disturbs his parents, and most importantly, keeps everyone up all night.
		And this is the focal point of the play - the stage is set with three bedrooms, that of Trevor's parents, one of his old flames, Jan and the poor couple who hold the party that they so successfully ruin with their arguments, Malcolm and Kate.
		That Trevor and Susannah are having problems is the catalyst of the plot, and we see their escalating animosity towards one another produce a chain of events, which keep everyone up into the small hours.
	www.dailyinfo.co.uk /reviews/theatre/bedroomfarce.htm (409 words)

	Playbill News: Last Chance: SD's Old Globe Says Goodnight To Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce, May 9
		Last Chance to romp along with four neurotic couples in Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce, ending its scheduled run at San Diego's Old Globe Theater, May 9.
		Three Farce actors are returnees to the Old Globe: Tim Donoghue (Nick), associate artist Richard Easton (Ernest) and Patricia Fraser (Delia).
		The design team for Bedroom Farce includes James Joy (sets), Michael Gilliam (lighting) and Jeff Ladman (sound).
	www.playbill.com /news/article/45319.html (521 words)

	Arafat's Bedroom Farce - article by Daniel Pipes
		Arafat's Bedroom Farce - article by Daniel Pipes
		Yet his farcical death-scene provides perhaps the appropriate coda to an unworthy life.
		The farce is complete, and Arafat dies as wretchedly as he lived.
	www.danielpipes.org /article/2203 (1425 words)

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