2. Black Comedy Black Comedy
By Peter Shaffer
By Peter Shaffer

3. Shedding light on what hiding in the dark really looks like.
Themes
Stage Convention:
Shedding light on what hiding in the dark really looks like.
CLEA: You should live in the dark, Brindsley. It's your natural element.  BRINDSLEY: Whatever that means.  CLEA: It means you don't really want to be seen. Why is that, Brindsley? Do you think if someone really saw you, they would never love you?
Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment.
~Peter Shaffermore at
Revelation vs. Deception

4. Concept/ Visual Inverse Lighting = Hiding In Plain Sight Close Call
What does it mean to hide in plain sight?
What are the concesquesnese, if any, from hiding yourself?
Brindsley hides in the dark on an everyday basis. When the light’s go out it externalizes what is always going on inside of him.
Close Call
Hushed Up
Sort of Obvious
Trick of the Eye
Blending In

5. Hair/Makeup
Sound
Sets
Designs
Lighting
Props
Costumes

6. SETS

7. SETS

8. Hair/Makeup
Deception
Revelation
Costumes

9. Sound
Lighting

10. Questions
What compels us to hide ourselves or be deceptive or revalatory?
What does it mean to hide physically or emotionally?
What are the consequences of hiding yourself?
Are we consciously aware that we are hiding ?

11. Connections BYU Family Gospel Missionary Work World
12 For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also isChrist.
Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself: Deut. 14:2
BYU
World
Gospel
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. 
We must recognize that excellence and quality are a reflection of how we feel about ourselves and about life and about God. If we don’t care much about these basic things, then such not caring carries over into the work we do, and our work becomes shabby and shoddy.
 14 Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
 15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven