OCTA Presents - "Black Comedy/The Real Inspector Hound" - Second Weekend
Schedule
Fri Apr 26 2024 at 07:30 pm to Sun Apr 28 2024 at 02:00 pm
Location
500 E Loula St, Olathe, KS | Olathe, KS
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“Black Comedy by Peter Shaffer/The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard”Directed by Jessica Franz-Martin
April 19-28th & May 3-5th, 2024
Fri. Apr 19th 2024, 7:30 pm
Sat. Apr 20th 2024, 7:30 pm
Sun. Apr 21st 2024, 2:00 pm
Fri. Apr 26th 2024, 7:30 pm
Sat. Apr 27th 2024, 7:30 pm
Sun. Apr 28th 2024, 2:00 pm
Fri. May 3rd 2024, 7:30 pm
Sat. May 4th 2024, 7:30 pm
Sun. May 5th 2024, 2:00 pm
Melodrama, mayhem, and madcap hijinks color this pair of single-act plays written by Peter Shaffer and Tom Stoppard.
Act I
“Black Comedy” by Peter Shaffer: 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 fiancée’s pompous father and a wealthy art dealer. The fussy neighbor, Harold Gorringe, returns just as a blown fuse plunges the apartment into darkness and Brindsley is revealed. Unexpected guests, aging spinsters, errant phone cords, and other snares impede his frantic attempts to return the purloined items before light is restored.
Act II
“The Real Inspector Hound” by Tom Stoppard: Feuding theatre critics Moon and Birdboot, the first a fusty philanderer and the second a pompous and vindictive second stringer, are swept into the whodunit they are viewing. In the hilarious spoof of Agatha Christie-like melodramas that follows, the body under the sofa proves to be the missing first string critic. As mists rise about isolated Muldoon Manor, Moon and Birdfoot become dangerously implicated in the lethal activities of an escaped madman.
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Where is it happening?
500 E Loula St, Olathe, KS, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
