Black Comedy - Lion and Unicorn Players May 14, 2009

BLACK COMEDY by PETER SHAFFER Black Comedy is a farce first performed in 1965 at the Chichester festival Theatre. 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; as such, its title is a pun. The play is 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. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 14th, 15th & 16 May 2009 at 7.30 pm with a Saturday matinee at 2.30 pm Tickets: £8 (concessions £6) from One Tree Books, Lavant Street or e-mail: lion.unicorn@waitrose.com