The Production

Square One Teen Theatre will be performing Black Comedy & The Actor's Nightmare on July 9, 10, and 11 at the Stratford Theatre in Stratford, Connecticut.

About Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer
In one hilarious act, the action supposedly in the dark is illuminated; when the lights are to be on, the stage is the dark. Lovesick and desperate, sculptor Brindsley Miller has embellished his apartment with furniture and objects d?arte ?borrowed? from the absent antique collector next door hoping to impress his fiancee?s pompous father and a wealthy art dealer, Schuppanzigh. The fussy neighbor, Harold Gorringe returns just as a blown fuse plunges the apartment into darkness and Brindsley is revealed teetering on the verge of very ripe farce. Unexpected guests, aging spinsters, errant phone cords and other snares impede his frantic attempts to return the purloined items before light is restored.
(Copyright 2009 Samuel French)

About The Actor's Nightmare by Christopher Durang
Having casually wandered onstage, George is informed that one of the actors, Eddie, has been in an auto accident and he must replace him immediately. Apparently no one is sure of what play is being performed but George (costumed as Hamlet) seems to find himself in the middle of a scene from Private Lives, surrounded by such luminaries as Sarah Siddons, Dame Ellen Terry and Henry Irving. As he fumbles through one missed cue after another the other actors shift to Hamlet, then a play by Samuel Beckett, and then a climactic scene from what might well be A Man for All Seasons?by which time the disconcerted George has lost all sense of contact with his fellow performers. Yet, in the closing moments of the play, he rises to the occasion and finally says the right lines, whereupon make-believe suddenly gives way to reality as the executioner?s axe (meant for Sir Thomas Moore) instead sends poor George to oblivion?denying him a well-earned curtain call.
 (Copyright 2009 Dramatists Play Service)

Tickets

Tickets are $12 for adults and $10 for students & seniors.
Tickets can be purchased online through our store or by calling 203-816-8241.