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'Black Comedy' sheds light on human foibles
By CHUCK GRAHAM
Published: 03.15.2007
Tucson Citizen
"The singular scene design for Beowulf Alley Theatre Company's new show, 'Black Comedy' by Peter Shaffer, is the downtown company's most elaborate ever."
"Guest director Nancy Arnfield does her own ante-upping by having the actors add lots of inappropriate touching, which gets still more laughs. Performed in 90 minutes without an intermission, 'Black Comedy' becomes a physical workout for the actors, choreographed and timed to enhance the meaning of that phrase 'body language.'"
"'Black Comedy' does have its underlying social commentary about people with secrets, staying true to their values and all the rest. But in this production, the laughs come from watching people fall. Just as in telling jokes, the timing is everything."
