Music Mountain Theatre in Lambertville, N.J., opens its 5th season by bringing “Noises Off” to the stage beginning Jan. 28 and running through Feb. 13.
“Noises Off” follows the on-and off-stage antics of a group of actors as they struggle through putting up a show. The play begins by showing their dress rehearsal and follows them all the way through to their wildly disastrous closing performance.
Everything that can go wrong does, and the audience watches the actors trying desperately to hold on to their lines, their performances and even the set pieces. Add several slippery plates of sardines, wardrobe malfunctions, many slamming doors, and you will soon understand why “Noises Off” has been called “the funniest play ever written.”
Playwright Michael Frayn came up with the idea for his Olivier Award winning, Tony-nominated show while watching one of his own plays from backstage instead of the audience. He said, “It was funnier from behind than in front, and I thought that one day I must write a farce from behind.”
“Noises Off” has had three separate productions on Broadway, four productions in London’s West End and even saw success as a film in 1992 starring Carol Burnett.
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