[1] Georges Feydeau plays, presented in Paris in the 1890s, are now considered forerunners to the Theatre of the Absurd.
In modern times, Woody Allen's A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) presents aspects of the bedroom farce.
Utilizing most of the conventions of bedroom farce's canon, it concerns a Parisian bachelor playboy with three international air stewardess fiancées he secretly keeps in careful rotation, until their flight schedules change and he, along with his provincial friend and sassy maid, must keep them from finding out about each other.
Brian Rix performed many bedroom farces at the Garrick theatre in London, many of which were broadcast by the BBC.
British dramatist Ray Cooney, whose Run For Your Wife was the longest running-comedy in West End theater history, is a modern master of this genre.