First, a little history, since farce always requires an elaborate setup: Back in the 1950s and '60s, when plays cut to one of several standardized patterns ruled the commercial theater, the French farceur Marc Camoletti (1923-2003) wrote a series of Paris boulevard successes, all now mercifully out of date and unrevivable. Regrettably, that doesn’t stop people from reviving them: Such is the idiocy of our money-mad commercial theater. Two of Camoletti’s plays scored long runs in London, back in the... More >>>