Synopsis
Black Comedy - A Farce
$10.99
Published by Samuel French Ltd
5 Male 3 Female
An unscrupulous sculptor has embellished his apartment with furniture and objets d'art "borrowed" from the absent antique dealer next door
Brindsley hopes to impress his fiancee's pompous father and a wealthy art buyer
The campy neighbor returns just as a blown fuse plunges the apartment into darkness and Brindsley is revealed teetering on the verge of very ripe farce
Seated guests, unexpected visitors, lurking phone cords and other snares impede his frantic attempts to return the purloined items before light is restored
REVIEWS
"[One of] the funniest and most brilliant short plays in the language" ~ London Sunday Times
"Pure hilarity" ~ International Herald Tribune
"Laughter mounts steadily" ~ N.Y. Times
"Hilarious" ~ N.Y. Post
"A dazzling comic ballet" ~ N.Y. Daily News
"It is still possible to laugh yourself into a hernia watching [ Black Comedy]" ~ USA Today
"An orgy of blind slapstick brilliantly sustained" ~ Sunday Express