Black Comedy

by  Shaffer, Peter

Published: 1967

Acts: 1

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Acts: 1
Male Roles: 5
Female Roles: 3
Flexible Roles: 0
Has Chorus/Extras: No

Synopsis

This farce opens on a dark stage, than blows a fuse throwing them all in the dark , and ends with lights reconnected. In the "dark", a girl brings her wealthy father to meet her fiance, an improvident sculptor, and to impress him, the sculptor has invited a wealthy art patron and stolen the furniture from the appartment next door for his bare pad. Not only have the lights gone out, but everything else turns cockeved-the neighbour returns too soon, the art patron is mistaken for an electrician, and a former flame pixies the proccedings from the bedroom.