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A review by melanie_page
The White Liars and Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer
4.0
I didn't love The White Liars. Everyone was telling a lie, so that was to be expected. It's listed by Samuel French as a comedy, but I didn't see anything funny about it.
Black Comedy has some icky 1960s ask-my-daughter-for-permission-and-maybe-I'll-approve nonsense, but other than that it is SO FUNNY. The power goes out the night an artist has invited a millionaire art collector AND his fiancee's military father arrive. Why on the same night are two such different people invited, I don't know other than the play is a farce. The artist and his fiancee have also stolen furniture and art from his neighbor in the next apartment to look more upper class. Then, a fuse is blown and every one is in the dark. HILARIOUS!
Black Comedy has some icky 1960s ask-my-daughter-for-permission-and-maybe-I'll-approve nonsense, but other than that it is SO FUNNY. The power goes out the night an artist has invited a millionaire art collector AND his fiancee's military father arrive. Why on the same night are two such different people invited, I don't know other than the play is a farce. The artist and his fiancee have also stolen furniture and art from his neighbor in the next apartment to look more upper class. Then, a fuse is blown and every one is in the dark. HILARIOUS!