The wit and word-play of The Real Inspector Hound is perfectly balanced by the ingenious stage action of Black Comedy. In The Real Inspector Hound, two drama critics are watching the performance of a new murder mystery. Their private lives become inextricably linked with those of the play's characters...At the start of Black Comedy, we await the arrival of a German millionaire to a sculptor's flat - however, a blown fuse plunges the flat into darkness and triggers swiftly escalating chaos. Shaffer's literally dazzling theatrical coup means that the moment the lights fuse we in the audience (in the dark until that point) can now see the characters groping about the fully lit...T938811263Company Northcott Theatre Company. Director Richard Beecham. Design Soutra Gilmour. Costume Soutra Gilmour. Lighting Simon Macer-Wright. Performer Mike Burnside (Birdboot / Colonel Melkett). Performer Paul Greenwood (Moon). Performer Iain Stuart Robertson. Performer James Weber Brown. Performer Eliza Hunt. Performer Natasha Nicoll. Performer David Semark. Performer Sarah Walton. | |
| 29 Aug 02 to 21 Sep 02 | Northcott Theatre, Exeter :: V886 listing details L1980648641 |
T094189188Company TADS. | |
| 7 Feb 02 to 9 Feb 02 | Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury :: V99 listing details L1463918407 |
T1473457807Producer Theatre By The Lake. Director Stefan Escreet. Design Martin Johns. Lighting Nick Beadle. Sound Paul Bunn. Performer Cleo Barnham. Performer Paul Basson. Performer Maria Gough. Performer Dinah Handley. Performer Richard Metcalfe. Performer John Webb. Performer Chris Wright. Performer Pete Yapp. | |
| 6 Nov 01 to 17 Nov 01 | Forum Studio Theatre (formerly the Chester Gateway), Chester :: V468 listing details L0707995826 |
| 8 Jun 01 to 24 Oct 01 | The Theatre By The Lake, Keswick :: V7 listing details L1112476499 |
