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2) High life below stairs: A farce of two acts. As it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane
Author
Language
English
Formats
Author
Publisher
S. French
Language
English
Description
So swift is the action, so involved the situations, so rib-tickling the plot in this London hit that at its finish audiences are left as exhausted from laughter as though they had run a foot race. Galloping in and out of the four doors of an English vicarage are an American actor and actress (he is now stationed with the Air Force in England), a cockney maid who has seen too many American movies, an old maid who "touches alcohol for the first time...
8) Farce
Series
Themes in drama volume 10
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
1988
Language
English
Author
Publisher
New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Housesitting at the ultra-modern apartment of a composer friend in a glum Eastern European city, a British copywriter accidentally spills wine on the apartment's priceless wooden floor and endures a psychologically disastrous week of perfectionist repair and maintenance.