Details

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...

Cast/Performers

Cleo Barnham, Paul Basson, Maria Gough, Dinah Handley, Richard Metcalfe, John Webb, Chris Wright, Pete Yapp

Creatives/Company

Author(s): Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer
Producer: Theatre By The Lake
Director: Stefan Escreet
Design: Martin Johns
Lighting: Nick Beadle
Sound: Paul Bunn