Kaufman was theatre editor at the New York Times drama desk, after stints as a reporter and reviewer, until 1930, all the while moonlighting as a
farceur and script doctor.
A ceci il faut ajouter que par l'alternance des caracteres romains et des italiques sont disjoints d'un cote le document ecrit, fige dans la formule creuse, et, de l'autre, la spontaneite de l'oral, qui subvertit l'autorite ecrite (Sa Majeste dans le texte devient "un gros
farceur" dans la conversation).
Muldoon compares Samuels to Brian Rix, the great English
farceur: "his double takes, his knowing asides, his ever exuberant theatrical presence ...
A
farceur, he is bound to fail because he chooses inappropriate models:
Il ne se livre a aucune exhibition de la singularite de l'individu Ricceur, si ce ne sont quelques anecdotes sur l'indiscipline --toute relative-- de l'excellent eleve Ricceur, sur la maladresse du prisonnier, le cote
farceur du grand-pere et diverses petites choses du meme tabac.
meme vu personnifier par des mi-caremes, <<un
farceur qui aura pris les traits de Riopelle>> (Ruel 1996 : 44).
In reviving this example of it by the most celebrated Parisian
farceur, Georges Feydeau, the combined forces of Sir Peter Hall and the usually dependable English Touring Theatre failed to persuade me that this is an injustice.
He wrote and starred in Le Bourgeois Avant-Garde (1983) in homage to the great
farceur Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentil-homme and as a tongue-in-cheek reaction to what he considered the utter silliness of performance art, which was garnering critical acclaim at the time.
'IMPOSTEUR ...' 'GENIE ...' '
FARCEUR ...' Jonathan Littell attracts French epithets the way other writers do free lunches.
Pour dissimuler leur misere, ne pas la porter comme un joug, ils la portent comme une fantaisie, ils prennent des airs d'inspire ou d'excentrique, de
farceur ou de puritain, -Diogene ou Brutus, Escousse ou Lantara.
Deception is thus considered with regard to both the conditions of Restoration farce in the first half of the 1680s and the rapport that Lacy, as a
farceur, may have sought to enhance in his relationship with his audiences.
In Antique Valentine, an underrated mechanical music jest that was made on Viola, she proved a capital
farceur in a robotic duet with her equally creaky and ardent swain, Patrick Corbin.
