Called the funniest farce ever written, Noises Off with it’s frantic pace and saucy innuendo will leave you breathless with laughter. The play depicts the onstage and backstage shenanigans of a fifth-rate acting troupe touring in a dire sex farce aptly entitled ‘Nothing On’. Noises Off has all the ingredients of a perfect farce: people come and go through lots of doors, men’s trousers fall down and young women run around in their underwear.
Act one shows the dress rehearsal of this play-within-a-play the night before it opens and things are not going to plan. In the second act the set has revolved to show backstage whilst the live performance is going on. A month on, the cast are still struggling with entrances and exits, lines and problem props. By the third act, the underlying feuding, jealousy and sexual tension is at fever pitch, and the cast (not to mention the harassed director) are at breaking point.
Noises off won both the Evening Standard and the Olivier awards for "Best Comedy" when it was first produced, and ran in the West End for nearly five years.
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