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...HEAR YOU WHEN THE WATER'S RUNNING. Robert Anderson's characters share a universal preoccupation: sex. As an element of shock in art, a waning force in middle age, a matter of concern to parents, a misty memory of the aged, sex links these four consistently droll, frequently hilarious and occasionally touching playlets...
BLACK COMEDY. What people do, say and discover when suddenly plunged into the dark is the single droll conceit on which Peter Shaffer's convulsively amusing farce is based. An acrobatically agile cast, including Michael Crawford, Geraldine Page and Lynn Redgrave, brings the monkeyshines to a high polish...
Less Blood, Much Bumf. "Awfully chic to be killed," remarks one of them, Charles Stringham. In the first novel, Stringham was an elegant, clever schoolboy at Eton. Now, after walk-on parts in later books as a sophisticated, droll, despairing alcoholic, he appears as a wry, dry, still witty private working as a waiter in an officers' mess at a divisional headquarters in Northern Ireland. Here, as in other scenes, the denizens of Powell's world-upper-class intelligentsia with outposts in the City, the aristocracy and in the upper bohemia of the theater, journalism, painting and music...
...Broadway BLACK COMEDY. What people do, say and discover in the dark, is the single droll conceit on which Peter Shaffer's convulsively amusing farce is based. An acrobatically agile cast, including Michael Crawford, Geraldine Page and Lynn Redgrave bring the monkeyshines to a high polish...
Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer is an unflaggingly funny drawing-room farce based on a single droll conceit: what might people do and say and discover about each other if they were suddenly left in a total blackout on the evening of a vitally important party? To begin with, this poses a little problem of stagecraft: How do you present actors in the dark and still allow the audience to see them? Simple: by reversing things. When the lights are supposed to be on, the stage is dark; when they are suddenly supposed to go out, the stage blazes with...