farce

la farce (FR N-F) short, comical theater work, in France, the »bedroom« farce is traditionally dominated by ploys of scenery, usually lots of opening and closing doors; (1870) any joke or trick one plays on someone. The larger genre of theatrical farce utilizes frenetic physical activity and a great deal of »fun« danger and harm to the hapless protagonist(s). Inanimate objects can spring to malevolent life as well. French farces are represented most typically by playwrights Eugène Labiche (1815…