The White Liars depicts a fateful encounter between a down-and-out fortune teller a rock musician and his agent. The agent bribes Baroness Lemberg to fake some hocus-pocus over a crystal ball ostensibly to discourage the musician from pursuing his girlfriend. The trickery entangles each of them in a dense web of mendacity. Black Comedy: The fussy neighbor Harold Gorringe returns just as a blown fuse plunges the apartment into darkness and...