Black Comedy at The Ghent Playhouse

Performances run for two consecutive weekends, January 23–25 and January 30–February 1. Set in London during the height of the “swinging sixties,” Black Comedy follows ambitious young sculptor Brindsley Miller and his fiancée as they scramble to impress both her disapproving father and an influential art collector. Their plan? “Borrow” their neighbor’s priceless antiques—without permission. But when a sudden power outage plunges their apartment into darkness, the couple’s desperate attempts to cover their tracks spiral into madcap chaos. One of Shaffer’s most inventive conceits turns the theatrical experience inside out: the characters are “in the dark” when the stage is fully lit, and they can see only when the stage goes black. The result is a high-energy cascade of physical comedy and slapstick confusion that has delighted audiences for decades. “Black Comedy takes us on a wild ride of physical comedy not seen on stage or screen since the days of Chaplin, Keaton and Lucille Ball,” says Director Ed Dignum. “It is pure escape, quite literally transposing the audience from the darkness that we oftentimes find ourselves living in to a lightness on stage that should leave people smiling and laughing on their way out of the theatre. Written by Peter Schaffer in the mid-1960s, the humor clearly stands up over time – possible more hilarious today than when it was when originally written.” Black Comedy shows are Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are available online in advance (recommended) with no additional processing fees or at the door, if available: $23 for members, $28 for nonmembers, and $12 for students. Tickets and memberships are available at GhentPlayhouse.org.

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