Need a farce for high school
Cecilia Johnson
What about "The Foreigner". It's written by Larry Shue, the same guy
that wrote "The Nerd".
Gary
We need suggestions for a farce (or light comedy) to be presented by a
small high school. We try to do quality productions on a very limited
budget. In previous years we have done -- with great success -- "Rumors",
"See How They Run", "The Man Who Came to Dinner", "George Washington Slept
Here", and "The Nerd". We need a show with a minimum of 10 characters and
lots of energy! Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Gary & Paula
Marlow High School
Marlow, OK
Ophelia
Try Neil Simon's "Fools"--10 characters with the possibility of extras.
Just make sure you can get a cow suit!
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In article <01bc4eb2$ae8c3260$527ccccf@default>, "Gary" <glp...@texhoma.net> wrote:
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>We need suggestions for a farce (or light comedy) to be presented by a
>small high school.
How about Ben Hecht's and Charles MacArthur's The Front Page? Some parts are a
little dated, but, overall, it's a fast-paced romp with a large-ish cast. I
did it when I was in 9th grade (1981).
Craig Bailey
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Mkayo
Daddy's Dyin', Who's Got the Will? is great fun.
Noises Off!
The Liar by Carlo Goldoni
Canterbury Tales
Odd Couple
A Flea in Her Ear
Good luck,
K-O
June Abernathy
>In article <01bc4eb2$ae8c3260$527ccccf@default>, "Gary"
<glp...@texhoma.net> wrote:
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>>We need suggestions for a farce (or light comedy) to be presented by
a
>>small high school.
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NOISES OFF comes to mind immediately. High speed farce. There is a
movie version available on video, which isn't as good as the play, but
will give you an idea.
Mike Lyons
We did Neil Simon's _Rumors_ back in my high school.
It was a little difficult, but worth it. BTW, if you want to
do farce, it helps to have really good set builders. The set
can contribute so much to a farce.
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Robert Gargiullo
June Abernathy wrote:
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> >In article <01bc4eb2$ae8c3260$527ccccf@default>, "Gary"
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> >>We need suggestions for a farce
How about "You Can't Take It With You?" It has a large cast pretty
evenly balanced between men and women. Also, look into "Charley's Aunt."
Bob
Joe M. Turner
>We need suggestions for a farce (or light comedy) to be presented by a
>small high school.
See my homepage (URL in sig) for information about BankNote$, a
one-act musical farce that was recently performed at Marshall
University in Huntington, WV.
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WardNA
If you can do The Man Who Came to Dinner, you can certainly handle Arsenic
and Old Lace. How about an absolutely first class British sex farce, Move
Over Mrs. Markham?--but see if the PTA will baulk at all the lingerie.
Peter Shaffer is a fraud, but his early Evening of Black Comedy is great
for high school. Only about 8 or 9 characters, I'm afraid, including the
plumber.
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde? Some 16-20 characters, including
walk-ons, grrrrreat women's roles, and some dicey, politically incorrect
notions about relations between the sexes. Yes--there's your answer.
Neil
Craig C. Bailey
>Peter Shaffer is a fraud, but his early Evening of Black Comedy is great
>for high school. Only about 8 or 9 characters, I'm afraid, including the
>plumber.
Visit http://together.net/~theatre/bc/ for a synopsis, etc.
David Lawver
> Peter Shaffer is a fraud, but
What????!!!!!!
WHAT!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
Back that up! Them's fightin' words around here!
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Paul Thain
My play Stone Soup might interest you. It's a contemporary farce about
famine derived from an ancient folk-tale and it's proved popular with
schools & youth theatres throughout the world, mostly recently South
Africa. However, as far as I'm aware, it hasn't yet been performed in the
States, should you fancy giving the amateur premiere ...
It's published by Samuel French and you can find out further details and
print/download the opening scenes via my website
best wishes,
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But anyway, I have to perform a Farce play for a school project too! Thanks for your suggestions! They're helpful even 11 years in the future (:
-Yung Tuna
John W Kennedy
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> I have no idea how you guys were able to use Google back in 1997...
an Internet system called (among other names) USENET that was running
before the Web was invented. It’s nearly gone now, replaced by (ugh!)
Facebook.
> But anyway, I have to perform a Farce play for a school project too! Thanks for your suggestions! They're helpful even 11 years in the future (:
distinguish from stand-up routines.
If you mean you and a group, well, Aristophanes generally requires the
audience to know a lot of ancient Greek politics, but Plautus is pretty
straightforward. On the other hand, you might get into trouble for being
too nearly R-rated. Same thing for most modern farces. There’s always
Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors”. I tend to see “Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern Are Dead” as a farce, but your teacher might disagree with
me. There’s an old chestnut called “And the Lamp Went Out”, but it’s
basically mime, except for the narrator.
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