Everdell Hall and Staged Right Productions are once again presenting their annual dinner theatre. Everyone’s invited to enjoy a delicious dinner & dessert, and then take in a theater performance.

Organizer Mike Skeels says not to 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.

There will be five performances starting Friday April 12th with a Sunday matinee on April 14.

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