TheatreWhite Liars/Black ComedyMADC Clubrooms MADC have managed to make the seamless transition from the jolly Christmas pantomime, to a New Year return to more weighty fare, in the guise of two of Peter Shaffer's works. Staged at the Clubrooms in Santa Venera, these timeless pieces of post-war character analysis often come as a combined double bill, with White Liars and Black Comedy exposing two different aspects of how we twist the truth. In a contemporary scenario, the notion is "post-truth" – alarmingly gaining traction and misleading millions. The focus of these two one-act plays is not only apt but also instructive because it reveals the extent to which we all bend the truth to suit our purposes. Both plays are eye-openers because they force the audience to face their own fallibility and the potential of falling into the temptation of creating deceptive realities. The first play in this double bill was White Liars, directed by Stephanie Zammit Borg, featuring a rather verbose set of characters – two friends, Tom, a popular rock musician, and Frank, his manager, who visit Baroness Sophie Lemberg, a fortune teller in a forsaken seaside town on the east coast of...
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