Playwright
Peter Shaffer, Murray Schisgal (respectively)
Performance Dates
July 7-11, 1970
Creative Team
Director....................................Teri Hiatt
Designer-Technical Director.....Prof. Fred Thayer
Synopsis
Black Comedy - Black Comedy is a one-act farce by Peter Shaffer, first performed in 1965. The play is written to be staged under a reversed lighting scheme: the play opens on a darkened stage. A few minutes into the show there is a short circuit, and the stage is illuminated to reveal the characters in a "blackout." On the few occasions when matches, lighters, or torches are lit, the lights grow dimmer. The title of the play is a pun.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Comedy_(play)
The Tiger - The Tiger is one of two short plays written by Murray Schisgal and published in 1963. A brief synopsis of the play is as follows: Ben is a natively intelligent, but slightly unstrung young man in revolt against a system which consigns him to being a mail carrier and to living in a tumble-down basement apartment. In a gesture of defiance he kidnaps a young woman and drags her to his lair, the object being that she, at least, will do as and what he orders — fulfilling the urge for domination that life has hitherto denied him.
https://www.stageplays.com/products/the_typists_the_tiger
Disciplines
Acting | Dance | Theatre and Performance Studies | Theatre History
Keywords
College Theater, Otterbein University Theatre, Musical Theatre, Drama
Recommended Citation
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department, "Black Comedy and The Tiger" (1970). 1970 Summer Theatre. 5.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/summer_production_1970/5