Everdell Hall and Staged Right Productions are once again presenting their annual dinner theatre. This year’s performance is the one-act farce, Black Comedy.

Organizer Mike Skeels says everyone is invited to enjoy a delicious dinner & dessert and then take in the theater performance.

“The local ladies put on a roast beef dinner for everyone with all the fixing and trimmings. They do a really awesome job.”

Skeels also adds that people should not be deceived by the play’s title.

“Black comedy would imply one thing, but it’s got nothing to do with that. It’s a play on light and dark. It’s your typical British farce with lots of physical comedy.”

Black Comedy is a one-act farce by Peter Shaffer, first performed in 1965. The premise of the play is that light and dark are transposed, so that when the stage is lit the cast are supposed to be in darkness and only when the stage is dark are they supposed to be able to see each other and their surroundings. In the play, a young sculptor and his fiancée have borrowed some expensive antique furniture from a neighbor’s flat without his permission to impress an elderly millionaire art collector. When the power fails, the neighbor returns early, other people also arrive unexpectedly, and matters descend into near-chaos.

Skeels says there will be four evening performances on April 12, 13, 19, 20 with a Sunday matinee on April 14.

Click here for ticket information.