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Why farce runs on doors and timing

Farce works by who is about to come through the door.

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From the opening

Farce runs on doors and timing because its jokes are collisions of people who must not meet, arranged so that they almost do and then do. The door is a valve for bodies and information, and the clock is the art of opening it a moment too soon or a moment too late. The opening covers how doors partition the secrets, why timing stacks the near misses, and what remains if entrances vanish.

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How doors partition the secrets
Why timing stacks the near misses
What remains if entrances vanish
Where speed without stakes fails
Where the idea stops applying
A distinction worth keeping

Sources

Stage farce built on entrances and concealment
Uneven knowledge between audience and characters

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Why farce runs on doors and timing

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