Stage Crafters is excited about our first production of the 2018 season, "Noises Off"!
This hilarious comedy is a 'play within a play'. The show follows a group of bumbling actors beginning with their dress rehearsal of Nothing On. It is midnight and the cast are hopelessly unready. Baffled by entrances and exits, missed cues, and bothersome props, they drive their director to near hysteria. Then we see a matinee performance a month later from backstage with romantic rivalries, lovers' tiffs, and personal quarrels leading to offstage shenanigans, onstage bedlam, and the occasional attack with a fire axe. Finally we see a performance near the end of the ten-week run. Relationships between the cast have soured, the set is breaking down, and props are winding up on the floor and in the way. The actors remain determined to cover up the mounting chaos, but it is not long before the plot has to be abandoned entirely.
"Noises Off" pokes fun at theatre and takes the audience on a hilarious ride giving new meaning to the anthem ''the show must go on''. It has been dubbed the ''funniest farce ever written,'' and we couldn't agree more.
Directed by Melissa Wolf-Bates & Douglas Henderson
PERFORMANCES are Friday & Saturday evenings, 7:30pm, and Sunday matinees, 2:00pm
March 16, 17, 18, & 23, 24, 25
TICKETS are $20
available at: https://www.stagecraftersfwb.com/
(students pay $15 at the door with valid ID; WARNING, this show contains adult themes and language, and is not suitable for children under 13)
Featuring:
Tracy Sherman as Dotty Otley/Mrs. Clackett
Don Goodrum as Lloyd Dallas
Steven Broszko as Garry Lejeune
Kerry Duval as Brooke Ashton/Vivki
Katherine Green as Poppy Norton-Taylor
Rusty Christensen as Frederick Fellowes/Phillip Brent
Nancy Kruzek as Belinda Blair/Flavia Brent
Jonathan Monsalve as Tim Allgood
and Thomas G Hood as Selsdon Mowbray/Burglar
Warning: "Noises Off" contains adult themes and language, and is not suitable for children
