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Review: ‘The Cottage’ on Broadway is a freewheeling farce that may not be for everyone

NEW YORK — Did somebody cancel the word “farce?” The new Broadway show by Second Stage is billed as a reconstructed romantic comedy, a feminist tale, they say, of “sex, betrayal and love.” But if you have an elongated joke involving flatulence, folks, and “The Cottage” breaks an epic amount of wind as part of its myriad country-house shenanigans, you’re doing farce. Farce, farce, farce, farce, ...
From left, Laura Bell Bundy, Alex Moffat, Lilli Cooper, Eric McCormack and Dana Steingold in "The Cottage" on Broadway.

NEW YORK — Did somebody cancel the word “farce?”

The new Broadway show by Second Stage is billed as a reconstructed romantic comedy, a feminist tale, they say, of “sex, betrayal and love.” But if you have an elongated joke involving flatulence, folks, and “The Cottage” breaks an epic amount of wind as part of its myriad country-house shenanigans, you’re doing farce.

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