A review by kristykay22
Great Farces by Robert Saffron

4.0

A fun and wide-ranging collections of farces, both familiar and unfamiliar. My favorites in the collection are "The Inspector General" by Gogol and "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde, but you also can't go wrote with "Lysistrata," by Aristophanes (classical!) and "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" by Moliere. I didn't get one-hundred percent on board with the most recent farce in the collection, the somewhat overwritten "Boy Meets Girl," by Bella and Samuel Spewack from 1935, although some of their send up of Hollywood is still pretty accurate. If you want a quick trip through pointed and comedic plays over the past 1600 years, this isn't a bad place to start.