Screen Plays presents BLACK COMEDY, by Peter Shaffer

Screen Plays presents Black Comedy

By Paul Schaffer

Directed by Mario Savastano

Thurs, May 23 at 8 PM

Fri, May 24 at 8 PM

Sat, May 25 at 2 PM

Sat, May 25 at 8 PM

Sun, May 26 at 2 PM

General Admission $19

Seniors (Over 65) $14

under 25 $9

75 minutes

Brindsley & his fiancée took furniture from Harold’s flat to impress her father. Things go awry as the lights go out

Black Comedy is a one-act play and was first performed in 1965. The play is, suitably enough, a black comedy in which the effect loss of light would have on a group of people who all hold things from each other is explored. It's a farce set in a London flat during an electrical blackout, and is written to be staged under a reversed lighting scheme: that is, the play opens with a dinner party beginning on a darkened stage, then a few minutes into the show "a fuse blows", the stage lights come up, and the characters are seen shambling around apparently invisible to one another.

$19 General Admission; $14 for seniors over 65; and $9 juniors under 25.

About Screen Plays ~ Hollywood’s Golden Age on Stage

What began as a love of classic Hollywood films is now a new local theater production company. Karen Tuccio, brings more than a decade of local theater and film experience to this exciting venture. Her company will present plays from Hollywood's Golden Age that have a positive message, especially those showcasing women in the best, brightest, and most beautiful aspects of life.

Cast List Black Comedy

Brindsley Miller…………...........M.J. Savastano

Carol Melkett……………...........Katie Keating

Miss Furnival……………............Kimberly Day

Colonel Melkett…………...........Gwen P. Scott

Harold Gorringe…………..........Derek Schneider

Schuppanzigh……………...........Joey Chacon

Clea……………………..................Alexus Maxam

George Bamberger.......................Kevin Chaba