Date/Time: Wednesday, 29th November 2023 at 14:30 - 16:50
Location: Theatre Royal Haymarket, 18, Suffolk Street, London, SW1Y 4HT
Price: £40 per person. Member and guest £80. Face value £105pp
Event Organiser: Pete Wells. 7, Wayfaring Court, Safflower Lane, Romford RM3 0LQ
Noises Off has been delighting audiences ever since it premiered at the Lyric Hammersmith in 1982, and it has been produced by amateur and professional theatre groups many, many times since then. Revealing a play within a play, it has inspired numerous comedy classics including another West End favourite, The Play That Goes Wrong.
Hurtling along at breakneck speed, Noises Off follows the on- and off-stage antics of a touring theatre company as they stumble their way through the fictional farce, Nothing On. From the shambolic final rehearsals before the opening night in Weston-Super-Mare, to a disastrous matinee in Ashton-Under-Lyme seen entirely, and hilariously silently, from backstage, we share their final, brilliantly catastrophic performance in Stockton-on-Tees.
You’ll meet Lloyd Dallas (Alexander Hanson), the director of the play-within-a-play, who is moody, sarcastic and perfectionist. Dotty Otley (Felicity Kendal) is an ageing TV star and a principal investor in the play. Garry Lejeune (Matthew Horne) is the leading man, but he can’t finish a single sentence unless it’s actual dialogue. Brooke Ashton is a young actor who constantly loses her contact lenses, leaving her more or less blind.
The dim-witted character of Freddie Fellowes (Jonathan Coy) is terrified of violence and blood, Belinda Blair (Tamzin Outhwaite) is a cheery person and a keen peacemaker, and Selsdon Mowbray is an elderly, half-deaf acting professional with a chequered career and a big drinking problem. They’re joined by Poppy Norton-Taylor, an over-sensitive Assistant Stage Manager and understudy, and the easily-flustered stage manager Tim Allgood.
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