There is exactly one joke in Peter Shaffer's 1965 farce: when the lights come on, the characters are in the dark. Everything ...

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A stealing sculptor struggles to keep his visitors in the dark, while they lope and grope with the lights out, in Shaffer’s escalating slapstick show ...

Orange Tree Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for Peter Shaffer’s Black Comedy. Directed by Caroline Steinbeis, the production will open on 27 May, with previews from 16 May, and ...

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Though he went on to write much, much more famous scripts like Equus and Amadeus, playwright Peter Shaffer has said he got his highest compliment in 1965, on the opening night of his slapstick play ...

Black Comedy: Mixes physical comedy and emotional cringe - 3/5 Peter Shaffer’s farce at the Orange Tree Theatre is somewhat ...

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Lesser known is the 1965 Black Comedy, a quirky and incredibly funny farce, now playing at the diminutive Orange Tree Theatre. Set in a London flat in the mid-1960s, struggling artist Brindsley and ...