Word: slapsticker
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...more substance than a trick that moonlight might play on the eye. But since Peter Brook's landmark rediscovery of the play's darker essence in his 1970 production with the Royal Shakespeare Company, scholars and theatergoers alike have recognized that Dream is much more than a slapstick farce of lovers tangling in a green glade. Its narrative blends wars of the sexes, of social classes, of generations, even a war between the everyday and the supernatural. The play has become a summit that virtually every world-class director seeks to scale...
Crime happens, even at Harvard. These are some of the most memorable crimes of the last four years: the sad, the scary, and even the slapstick. From a graduate student convicted of manslaughter to a professor charged with stealing manure, this is the dirty business of life at Harvard—a hallowed university where veritas is just a motto...
This 1972-78 sitcom had the good sense to take a chatty, psychological comedian and put him in a psychologist's office to chat with people. Though Newhart could do slapstick and broad comedy, he was also his own straight man, and this series showed him at his unflappable, Everyman best. It neatly captured the tone of a comic who kept his head when the neurotics around him had already lost theirs...
...It’s a funny, smart piece,” Hanley says. “It’s got all sorts of humor—everything from slapstick to intellectual… What I really would encourage people to do is watch the whole stage—while some people might be talking, others might be doing something in the corner you might miss. We tried to throw in fun things here and there...
...course, as two fledgling rockers straight out of Harvard, Wilkis and drummer Pete Kennedy ’03 have every reason to be self-conscious. They ask us to share all their passionate twentysomething angst, then quickly revert to some wry goofiness and slapstick machismo to assure us, and themselves, that they really don’t give that much of a damn...