Re: whaddayacallit...

On 24/02/14 15:42, Wayne Morrison wrote:
> There's this, um, thing used in some movies and plays. There's a bunch of
> doors, usually on a hallway. People run in one door, people run out another
> door, sometimes they run in one door and then out another door on the other
> side of the hallway. I'm most familiar with it from Bugs Bunny. I saw a
> production of "Something Wicked Happened on the Way to the Forum" that used
> this thing, but the doors were for different buildings. I think I've heard
> this thing is (or was) used more often in English movies and plays than in
> anyone else's. This thing may have been common in vaudeville, but I really
> don't know.
>
> Does this thing have a particular name?

In the UK it's a Whitehall Farce because the Whitehall Theatre
specialised in it, usually starring Brian (now Lord) Rix. I believe
elsewhere it's known as French Farce, but Farce is definitely the
generic term.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farce


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