Word: darknesse
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BLACK COMEDY. British Playwright Peter Shaffer looses eight characters on a stage that is supposed to be in total darkness. Director John Dexter manipulates them in a fracturingly funny people jam, with Michael Crawford, Geraldine Page and Lynn Redgrave leading the acrobatics.
An enormous luminous egg hangs in the darkness. A neon light suddenly flashes: 5. ..4. ..3. ..2... 1.
The spectators can now see, but the actors are meant to be in sightless confusion, playing blindman's buff. They begin a convulsively amusing, slow-motion night dance of straight-arming the air, pawing and fumbling for objects and people, mistaking identities, and trading unintended indiscretions under the misleading...
Certainly it is more informative to quote him: passages plucked nearly at random demonstrate his quite unique blend of energetic wit and despair, the despair of a young man whose visions of darkness are constantly lit up by lightning-like storms of adrenalin.
As workers trudged to their jobs, a heavy fog blanketed the bleak and grimy town. It hung suspended in the stagnant air while local businesses-steel mills, a wire factory, zinc and coke plants-continued to spew waste gases, zinc fumes, coal smoke and fly ash into the lowering darkness...