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 · About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer was produced at Chichester Festival Theatre five years ago. A young sculptor arranges an evening at home with his fiancee, her father and a millionaire art collector. Then the lights fail - hence the title Black www.doorway.ruor: Tim Mahoney. Black Comedy: A Comedy (French's Theater Scripts), Peter Shaffer Black Comedy is a one-act farce by Peter Shaffer, first performed in The play begins in complete darkness/5.

Peter Shaffer's farce Black Comedy employs the qualities particular to farce and is written to be staged in a reverse lighting scheme. In doing so, the play opens on a darkened stage, which is light to the characters. When a short circuit occurs, the stage is illuminated so that the audience. THE WHITE LIARS / BLACK COMEDY Written by Peter Shaffer Ian McKellen in the role of Tom/Harold Gorringe. Lyric, London. 1 February Comments and Reviews "In Ian McKellen, Peter Shaffer has been gifted with an actor who can, and does, seize the chance in both hands. As played by Mr McKellen he reveals it with such virtuoso contol of pace. The plays of British dramatist Peter Shaffer (b. ) demonstrate such diversity as to defy simple categorization into this or that "school." From the dramatic Five Finger Exercise to the farcical Black Comedy, from the psychological Equus to the biographical Amadeus, Shaffer has evinced a remarkable versatility.

Black Comedy is a one-act farce by Peter Shaffer, first performed in The premise of the piece is that light and dark are transposed, so that when the stage is lit the cast are supposed to be in darkness and only when the stage is dark are they supposed to be able to see each other and their surroundings. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. September 1, where it starred Peter MacNicol as Brindsley and Kate Mulgrew as Clea. The original Broadway production of Black Comedy opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Febru. It starred Michael Crawford at Brindsley, Geraldine Page as Clea, and Lynn Redgrave as Carol. Shaffer’s work was nominated for five Tony Awards.