Beatnik Entertainment
Presents

  Black Comedy
by Peter Shaffer

Directed by Aaron and Julie Breford

A crowd-pleasing slapstick comedy composed of several colorful, duplicitous characters who stumble around a pitch-black room – all in full view of the audience, who watch the events unfold in full light. 

Lovesick and desperate, sculptor Brindsley Miller has embellished his apartment with furniture and objects d’arte “borrowed” from the absent antique collector next door, hoping to impress his fiancée’s pompous father and a wealthy art dealer. The fussy neighbor, Harold Gorringe, returns just as a blown fuse plunges the apartment into darkness and Brindsley is revealed. Unexpected guests, aging spinsters, errant phone cords, and other snares impede his frantic attempts to return the purloined items before light is restored.

BRINDSLEY MILLER -

CAROL MELKETT -

MISS FURNIVAL -

COLONEL MELKETT -

HAROLD GORRINGE -

SCHUPPANZIGH -

CLEA -

GEORG BAMBERGER -

Show Dates:

October 18, 19, 20 and 25, 26 and 27

7:30 pm on Friday and Saturday shows; 2:00 pm on Sunday shows

Performances are at Beatniks on Conkey, 420 Conkey Street, Hammond