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The white liars and Black comedy : two one-act plays

White liars: 2 males, 1 female. A young man tries to use a fortune-teller to trick his friend into relinquishing his girlfriend to him. Black comedy: 5 males, 3 females. A romantic farce with a staging twist: when it is dark to the audience, it is light, and when the audience can see, the characters cannot.

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  • "White liars ; and Black comedy"@en
  • "White liars ; and Black comedy"
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  • ""In one hilarious act [Black Comedy], the action supposedly in the dark is illuminated; when the lights are to be on, the stage is the dark. Lovesick and desperate, sculptor Brindsley Miller has embellished his apartment with furniture and objects d'arte "borrowed" from the absent antique collector next door hoping to impress his fiancee's pompous father and a wealthy art dealer, Schuppanzigh. The fussy neighbor, Harold Gorringe returns just as a blown fuse plunges the apartment into darkness and Brindsley is revealed teetering on the verge of very ripe farce. Unexpected guests, aging spinsters, errant phone cords and other snares impede his frantic attempts to return the purloined items before light is restored." -- Publisher's description."
  • "White liars: 2 males, 1 female. A young man tries to use a fortune-teller to trick his friend into relinquishing his girlfriend to him. Black comedy: 5 males, 3 females. A romantic farce with a staging twist: when it is dark to the audience, it is light, and when the audience can see, the characters cannot."@en
  • ""White Liars depicts a fateful encounter between a down and out fortune teller, a rock musician and his agent. The agent bribes Baroness Lemberg to fake some hocus pocus over a crystal ball, ostensibly to discourage the musician from pursuing his girlfriend. The trickery entangles each of them in a dense web of mendacity. Recently revived at The Roundabout Theatre in New York with Black Comedy, White Liars is a sharply etched study of characters steeped in deception." -- Publisher's description."
  • "The white liars: Young man bribes destitute fortune teller at rundown seaside resort to foretell false fortune to friend so that he can secure friend's girl for himself, but plan backfires."@en
  • "Black Comedy: In one hilarious act, the action supposedly in the dark is illuminated; when the lights are to be on, the stage is dark. Lovesick and desperate, sculptor Brindsley Miller has embellished his apartment with furniture and objects d'arte "borrowed" from the absent antique collector next door hoping to impress his fiancee's pompous father and a wealthy art dealer, Schuppanzigh. The fussy neighbor, Harold Gorringe returns just as a blown fuse plunges the apartment into darkness and Brindsley is revealed teetering on the verge of very ripe farce. Unexpected guests, aging spinsters, errant phone cords and other snares impede his frantic attempts to return the purloined items before light is restored."@en
  • "Black comedy: Young sculptor's apartment is site of wild evening of misadventures and romantic woes when electricity fails."@en
  • "White Liars depicts a fateful encounter between a down and out fortune teller, a rock musician and his agent. The agent bribes Baroness Lemberg to fake some hocus pocus over a crystal ball, ostensibly to discourage the musician from pursuing his girlfriend. The trickery entangles each of them in a dense web of mendacity."@en

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  • "The white liars and Black comedy : two one-act plays"
  • "The white liars and Black comedy : two one-act plays"@en
  • "The white liars, and Black comedy. Two one-act plays. (Revised and rewritten.)"@en
  • "The white liars ; and Black comedy"@en
  • "The white liars ; and Black comedy : two one-act plays"
  • "The white liars ; and Black comedy : two one-act plays"@en
  • "The white liars [and] Black comedy : two plays"
  • "The white liars, and Black comedy / two one-act plays"@en
  • "The white liars; and, Black comedy"@en

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