Black Comedy is a one-act play written by British Dramatist Peter Shaffer. It was first performed in 1965, and saw the likes of Maggie Smith in its first cast.

The play is a farce set in a London flat during an electrical blackout...It is written to be staged under a reversed lighting scheme. That is, the play opens with a darkened stage with the characters happily moving around, then a few minutes into the show 'a fuse blows', where we see the lights come up and the characters struggling to to find one another.

Synopsis

Struggling artist Brindsley Miller and his fiancée Carol are having a party with the aim of impressing Carol's bombastic father, Colonel Melkett, and millionaire Georg Bamberger, who may buy some of Brindsley's sculptures.

They have borrowed (without permission) the furniture and effects of their fussy neighbor, Harold, to make the flat more presentable. Before the guests arrive the main fuse blows, plunging the flat into darkness; only we, the audience, can see what is happening.

Witness the devastating powers of Murphy's Law in action as the lights go down and the artist's past returns with a vengeance.

Performance Details

The M&D Room
7:00pm Wednesday 4th November

              - Saturday 7th November