The play has been touted as a "Ludwig's tribute to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940s".

It's hard to imagine a greater farce.

The great clunking farce's voice is all a wobble and as usual he is all over the place!

The great light-bulb farce grows ever more bizarre.

'The great farce in a hundred acts!'

That lusty self-interest is the motor of all great farces.

"That was a great big farce, but I was young and dumb and it worked," Huffins said.

Scott Ellis's production of Orton's great farce of sexual hypocrisy, which also stars Alec Baldwin, is breezy, often funny and rarely convincing.

The great farce was all over.

Feydeau began investigating the great farces in 1890, studying the works of Eugène Labiche, Henri Meilhac and Alfred Hennequin.