Their first production, a comic piece on life on a construction site, premiered at the university in 1994.

Savoy audiences, accustomed to more comic and satiric pieces, did not find the opera attractive.

"In the Beginning" is a slighter comic piece, but it too is a meditation on life and mortality.

His ambition, however, was to compose comic pieces for the musical theatre.

Peter Bradshaw so often does those sneery, comic pieces that it's good to see a piece like this.

In his long career, he developed many comic pieces that have become classics.

Mr. Martin, 59, has also published two novellas and a collection of comic pieces.

He also wrote both serious and comic pieces for newspapers and magazines throughout his career, displaying a wide range of styles.

It is a joyful, often comic piece of work.

There were also comic pieces, which caused great amusement.