Award-Winning Comedy Features Cops, Crooks and a Cheap Motel
(Long Island, NY) “Unnecessary Farce,” a critically acclaimed screwball comedy that has been performed on stages from Syracuse to Singapore, is coming to Farmingdale State College for three nights: March 31 – April 2, in the Little Theater at Roosevelt Hall.
“Unnecessary Farce” is coming to Farmingdale State College. Photo Credit: Playscripts.
All shows, mounted by the college’s Backstage Theater Company, begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 and must be purchased in advance, HERE. Admission is free for Farmingdale students with a valid ID.
Brooklyn playwright/actor Paul Slade Smith, on the play’s website, describes the plot this way: “In an economy motel room, an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant. In the room next door, two undercover cops are supposed to catch the meeting on videotape. But there’s some confusion as to who’s in which room, who’s watching the video, who’s taken the money, who’s hired a hit man, and why the accountant keeps taking off her clothes.”
“Unnecessary Farce,” winner of nine regional theater awards, has received rave reviews across the country. The Boston Globe said it had an “unrelentingly funny plot,” and the theater critic for the Post-Standard in upstate Syracuse said it was “The funniest two hours of theater I have seen in several years.”
The Backstage Theater Company is a student-run performing arts club on the Farmingdale campus.
Farmingdale State College prepares students with the education, skills, and critical thinking needed to meet tomorrow’s challenges. As the largest of SUNY’s colleges of technology (with almost 8,700 students), FSC equips students with the resources and knowledge sought by today’s emerging industries. Offering bachelor and associate degrees, FSC will soon offer its first graduate program. At FSC, students learn in small, personalized classes and have abundant opportunities for applied learning—internships, clinical training, and guided research—that provide practical instruction and personal growth. Located an hour east of Manhattan, the campus offers residential halls, a lush 380-acre campus undergoing major renovation, and a highly successful NCAA Division III athletics program with modern facilities to make FSC one of the fastest-growing colleges in the region. In addition, in 2015, 2014 and 2013, FSC was listed one of the best colleges in the North and in 2013 FSC was the only SUNY school (and the only LI school) listed in the LEAST debt category in the section titled Student Debt Load at Graduation for regional colleges in the north. In 2015 UniversityPrimeTime.com again listed FSC the fifth safest college in the nation. Like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/farmingdale.
