[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 cult comedy BLACK COMEDY

Production Dates: Friday, Oct.18 @ 8pm; Saturday, Oct. 19 @ 8pm; Sunday, Oct.20 @ 2pm; Friday, Oct. 25 @ 8pm; Saturday, Oct. 26 @ 8pm; Sunday, Oct.27 @ 7pm.

Tickets: $8 for adults; $6 for seniors and students! First class theatre at an affordable price. For ticket and information and reservations call 440.953.7034.

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

Directed by Martin Friedman; Sets and Lights by Keith Nagy; Costumes by Angel Kornuc

This funny, prize-winning play has not had a full-scale professional production 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 by the British National Theatre in 1965. It uses wit, imagination and broad, physical humor to get its audiences laughing. A cross between a comedy of manners and Benny Hill.

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 Chinese Theatre device of light-dark reversal. Darkness, caused by a 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 Jacobi and Maggie Smith under the direction of John Dexter.

 

 



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<P align=center><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"><FONT color=#ff00ff size=5>For Immediate Release</FONT> </FONT></P>
<P align=center><FONT color=#ff007f size=2><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Lakeland Theatre returns with the rarely performed Peter Shaffer cult comedy <FONT color=#347d7e size=5>BLACK COMEDY</FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P><FONT color=#212143>Production Dates:</FONT> <FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#5b5b5b size=3>Friday, Oct.18 @ 8pm; Saturday, Oct. 19 @ 8pm; Sunday, Oct.20 @ 2pm; Friday, Oct. 25 @ 8pm; Saturday, Oct. 26 @ 8pm; Sunday, Oct.27 @ 7pm.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">Tickets: <FONT color=#8000ff size=3>$8 for adults; $6 for seniors and students! First class theatre at an affordable price. For ticket and information and reservations call 440.953.7034.</FONT></FONT></P>
<P>Featuring: <FONT face="Comic Sans MS" size=3>Doug Rossi, Pandora Robertson,Donald A. Squires, Bob Keefe, Krissy Gasbarre, Michael Rogan, Edward Sajovic and Mary Stirring. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#4040ff>Directed by Martin Friedman; Sets and Lights by Keith Nagy; Costumes by Angel Kornuc</FONT></P>
<P>This funny, prize-winning play has not had a full-scale professional production 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 by the British National Theatre in 1965. It uses wit, imagination and broad, physical humor to get its audiences laughing. A cross between a comedy of manners and Benny Hill.</P>
<P>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 Chinese Theatre device of light-dark reversal. Darkness, caused by a 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 Jacobi and Maggie Smith under the direction of John Dexter.</P>
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