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Noises Off, the classic farce by the Tony Award--winning author of Copenhagen, is not one play but two: simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the backstage "drama" that develops during Nothing On's final rehearsal and tour. The two 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. In the end, at the disastrous final performance, the two plots can be kept separate no longer, and coalesce into a single collective nervous breakdown.
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"Spectacularly funny . . . a peerless backstage comedy." -Ben Brantley, The New York Times "First-rate. . . . Clever and intricately crafted. . . . Sublime." -The Boston Globe "Ingenious. . . . Madcap." -The Wall Street Journal
"A triumph. . . . An essential hysterical fix. . . . Masterly." -The New York Observer
"[A] frisky, freewheeling sex comedy about actors in a frisky, freewheeling sex comedy." -USA Today
"A comic masterpiece." -Daily Telegraph "Blissful fun." -The New Yorker
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"A triumph. . . . An essential hysterical fix. . . . Masterly." -The New York Observer
"[A] frisky, freewheeling sex comedy about actors in a frisky, freewheeling sex comedy." -USA Today
"A comic masterpiece." -Daily Telegraph "Blissful fun." -The New Yorker
Michael Frayn
Full Length, Farce
Characters: 5 male, 4 female
2 Interior Scenes
Called the funniest farce ever written, NOISES OFF presents a manic menagerie as a cast of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop called NOTHING'S ON. Doors slamming, on- and backstage intrigue, and an errant herring all figure in the plot of this hilarious and classically comic play.
"The most dexterously realized comedy ever about putting on a comedy. A spectacularly funny, peerless backstage farce. This dizzy, well-known romp is festival of delirium."—The New York Times
"Bumper car brilliance...If laughter is indeed the best medicine, NOISES OFF is worth its weight in Cipro."—New York Daily News
"The funniest farce ever written! Never before has side-splitting taken on a meaning dangerously close to the non-metaphorically medical."—New York Post
"As side-splitting a farce as I have seen. Ever? Ever."—New York Magazine
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- PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 1400031605
- ISBN 13 9781400031603
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages176
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