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A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained, and an alternative name for a living room. The name is derived from the 16th-century...

English literature, the term comedy of manners (also anti-sentimental comedy) describes a genre of realistic, satirical comedy of the Restoration period...

traditional drawing room performance and back into main street theatre and film. Drawing room comedy is also sometimes called the "comedy of manners."...

class in a superficial drawing-room comedy. A close paraphase of the saying, was used in George Bernard Shaw's 1914 drawing-room comedy Misalliance, in which...

Dürrenmatt's 1950 play Romulus der Große) (1962) Weekend (1968) Drawing Room Comedy (1970) An Evening with Richard Nixon (1970) ISBN 0-394-71869-0 On...

starts out seeming to be a light satire of the traditional British drawing room comedy. As it progresses, however, the work becomes a darker philosophical/psychological...

She was known for her versatility, and appeared in Shakespeare, drawing room comedy, pantomime, modern drama, and classics such as Ibsen and Chekhov...

range of roles from Shakespeare to farce, modern drama, musicals, drawing-room comedy, and thrillers. He made some cinema films, particularly in the late...

Vincent Canby in The New York Times hailed it as a "kind of lethal drawing-room comedy." The Time Out reviewer wrote of Christopher Hampton's screenplay...

are considered to have instigated a new form of drama known as 'drawing-room comedy' or 'cup and saucer drama', owing to the realism of their stage sets...

Literature (2002) wrote that the play's "peculiar combination of drawing-room comedy in a genteel southern home with sinister corruption of the Nazi regime...

using the alias Mahatma Kane Jeeves (derived from the Broadway drawing-room comedy cliché "My hat, my cane, Jeeves!"), and directed by Edward F. Cline...

pleasurably discombobulating experience, sometimes playing like mordant drawing-room comedy and sometimes flirting with expressionist nightmare, as when Welles'...

His other successes included Trelawny of the "Wells" (1898), a romantic comedy celebrating the theatre, old and new, and The Gay Lord Quex, about a reformed...

stunts, car crashes and computer-generated effects. What should be a drawing-room comedy ends with moments best left to Gone in 60 Seconds." "Bedazzled (2000)"...

in July 1972, he surprised many by joining Peggy Ashcroft in a drawing-room comedy, Lloyd George Knew My Father by William Douglas-Home. Some critics...

wrote of Thurman that "the effort to play the naughty heroine in a drawing room comedy (which is how director Pam MacKinnon has misdirected her) is beyond...

The Importance of Being Earnest. Aynesworth generally appeared in drawing room comedy and contemporary high-society dramas, usually avoiding old classics...

with music and libretto by Ernst Krenek, his Op. 111. This "little drawing room comedy" is set in London at the turn of the 20th century, and features a...

that it makes a spoof like Airplane seem as demure as a vintage drawing-room comedy." The A.V. Club's Nathan Rabin criticized the film for having stereotypical...