I'm a little pedestrian in my taste in farce...I love British sex farce, and that general genre. So:
No Sex Please, We're British Boeing-Boeing (LOVED the recent revival) The Ritz (also loved the revival a couple of years ago...not a whole lot of good female roles in this one, though...)
Just a thought...would The Matchmaker be considered a farce? Lots of physical humor in that one, but a lot of word play as well...and a GREAT female monologue for Dolly Levi...
"Are you calling me a procrastibator?" Hunter, [title of show]
"Guess who's gonna get blamed for the war in Europe?" Eugene, Brighton Beach Memoirs
Attend the tale of Bovine Boy
His party threads we all enjoy
But does he have Mad Cow Disease?
He doesn't eat beef - but cows skating? - oh please!!!
With cocoa!?!
And lemonade!?!
The heifer-mad poster of Broadway
(World)
Charley's Aunt. (And seconds to What the Butler Saw, Noises Off and Lend Me A Tenor) (And Noises Off does start with a female monologue - but it's not funny in and of itself)
but Georges Feydeaux's A Little Hotel On the Side is hysterical! I saw it done perfectly this past summer where it had non-stop laughter from beginning to end.
<--- the set of A Midsummer Night's Dream that I was assistant stage manager for during the 2007 season at the STNJ outdoor stage.
-Dre-
You must remember all the same that at the crux of every game is knowing when it's time to leave the table... And it's important to be artful in your exit. No turning back, you must accept the con is done... It was a ball, it was a blast. And it's a shame it couldn't last. But every chapter has to end, you must agree. ~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
There's a special kind of people known as show people. We live in a world full of dreams. Sometimes we're not too certain what's false and what's real. But we're seldom in doubt about what we feel. ~Curtains~
It is a far, far better thing I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to, than I have ever known. ~A Tale of Two Cities ~