Daryl Craig-Elliott, Ruth Galley, David Bennett, Liz Calnan & Jacqui Lodge
Often regarded as one of the funniest comedies ever written, Noises Off is not one play but two - simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On and the backstage farce that develops during its final rehearsal and tour. The two farces begin to interlock, as the characters make their exits from Nothing On only to find themselves making entrances into the even worse nightmare going on backstage, and exit from that only to make their entrances back into the rapidly disintegrating “onstage” play. In the end, at the disastrous final performance in Stockton-on-Tees, the two farces can be kept separate no longer, and coalesce into one single collective nervous breakdown. |
John Chapman, Trevor Cox & Roger Howsam
Ruth Galley, Trevor Cox & John Chapman
