[NEohioPAL]Lakeland Theatre to Open Peter Shaffer's BLACK COMEDY

[Martin Friedman]

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE! 

Lakeland Theatre returns with the rarely performed Peter Shaffer comedy
 
 BLACK COMEDY
 
Production dates: 
                       October 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 2002 

Lakeland Theatre at Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, Ohio. Rt 306 and I 90. 

Featuring: Doug Rossi, Donald Squires, Bob Keefe, Pandora Robertson, Krissy Gasbarre, Michael Rogan, Mary Stirring and Edward Sajovic. 

Tickets: $8 for adults, $$6 seniors and students. First class theatre at an affordable price!

This funny, prize-winning play has not had a full-scale professional production in greater Cleveland for at least 15 years. Long considered one of the greatest examples of 20th Century farce, BLACK COMEDY was widely admired by audiences and critics alike when first produced at the British National Theatre in 1965. It uses wit, imagination and broad, physical humor to get its audiences laughing.
 
Peter Shaffer wrote masterpieces such as Equus, Amadeus, The Royal Hunt of the Sun and Lettice and Lovage. In BLACK COMEDY, Peter Shaffer makes use of mistaken identity and pratfalls, as well as the Chines theatre device of light-dark reversal. Darkenss, caused bya blown fuse, is seen in the theatre as a brilliantly illuminated room in which characters are blindly groping around. The light-dark device never wears thin, because Shaffer shrewdly fills the story with eight wonderfully defined characters. The 1965 premiere featured Albert Finney, Derek Jocobi and Maggie Smith under the direction of John Dexter. 



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<P align=center><FONT color=#0000ff>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE! <BR></FONT><BR><FONT color=#a94a76 size=3>Lakeland Theatre</FONT> returns with the rarely performed <FONT size=3><STRONG>Peter Shaffer</STRONG></FONT> comedy</P> 
<P align=center><FONT size=5> <FONT color=#ff409f>BLACK COMEDY</FONT></FONT></P> 
<P align=left><FONT color=#a040ff size=3>Production dates: <BR></FONT><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#347d7e size=3>                       October 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 2002 <BR></FONT><BR><FONT color=#ff007f>Lakeland Theatre</FONT> at <FONT color=#ff007f>Lakeland Community College</FONT>, Kirtland, Ohio. Rt 306 and I 90. <BR><BR><FONT color=#00bfbf size=3>Featuring:</FONT> Doug Rossi, Donald Squires, Bob Keefe, Pandora Robertson, Krissy Gasbarre, Michael Rogan, Mary Stirring and Edward Sajovic. <BR><BR><FONT color=#0000ff size=3>Tickets:</FONT> $8 for adults, $$6 seniors and students. First class theatre at an affordable price!<BR><BR>This funny, prize-winning play has not had a full-scale professional production in greater Cleveland for at least 15 years. Long considered one of the greatest examples of 20th Century farce, BLACK COMEDY was widely admired by audiences and critics alike when first produced at the British National Theatre in 1965. It uses wit, imagination and broad, physical humor to get its audiences laughing.</P> 
<P align=left>Peter Shaffer wrote masterpieces such as Equus, Amadeus, The Royal Hunt of the Sun and Lettice and Lovage. In BLACK COMEDY, Peter Shaffer makes use of mistaken identity and pratfalls, as well as the Chines theatre device of light-dark reversal. Darkenss, caused bya blown fuse, is seen in the theatre as a brilliantly illuminated room in which characters are blindly groping around. The light-dark device never wears thin, because Shaffer shrewdly fills the story with eight wonderfully defined characters. The 1965 premiere featured Albert Finney, Derek Jocobi and Maggie Smith under the direction of John Dexter. </P><p><br><hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!?<br>
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