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Black Comedy is a one-act farce by Peter Shaffer first performed in 1965. The play is written to be staged under a reversed lighting scheme: the play opens on a darkened stage. A few minutes into the show there is a short circuit and the stage is illuminated to reveal the characters in a blackout. On the few occasions when matches lighters or torches are lit the lights grow dimmer.

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author
Peter Shaffer
character in play
Brindsley Miller, Carol Melkett, Clea, Colonel Melkett, Georg Bamberger, Harold Gorringe, Miss Furnival, Schuppanzigh
genre
Farce
original language
English language
premiere place
England, Royal National Theatre, Chichester
premiere year
1965-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
setting of play
9:30 on a Sunday Night, Brindsley Miller's Flat, Mid 1960's, South Kensington London

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