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

Mike Burnside (Birdboot / Colonel Melkett), Paul Greenwood (Moon), Iain Stuart Robertson, James Weber Brown, Eliza Hunt, Natasha Nicoll, David Semark, Sarah Walton

Creatives/Company

Author(s): Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer
Company: Northcott Theatre Company
Director: Richard Beecham
Design: Soutra Gilmour
Costume: Soutra Gilmour
Lighting: Simon Macer-Wright