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9/21/09

'Black Comedy' At SLU October 1-3

CANTON - Peter Schaffer's Black Comedy will be performed at St. Lawrence University's Gulick Theatre on Thursday, October 1, at 8 p.m.; Friday, October 2, at 9 p.m.; and Saturday, October 3, at 2 and 9 p.m. Tickets are free and available at the Gulick box office the week of the show.

The production is directed by Ann Marie Gardinier Halstead, assistant professor of performance and communication arts.

Set in mid-1960's London, Black Comedy focuses on Brindsley Miller, an opportunistic young sculptor who is facing one of the most important evenings of his life, the night in which he is to meet both the tyrannical father of his debutante fiancée and a millionaire patron of the arts capable of making his career. Just before his guests arrive, a fuse blows, plunging his South Kensington apartment into darkness. What follows is a series of mishaps and embarrassments and a very black comedy.

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