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July
Playwright
Dotty Otley
Brooke Ashton
Tim Allgood
Poppy Norton-Taylor
Garry Lejeune
Selsdon Mowbray
Belinda Blair
Lloyd Dallas
Scenic Design
Costume Design
Props Artisan
Production Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Assistant to the Director
Voice and Dialect Coach
Fight Consultant
Assistant Scenic Design
Production Assistant/Run Crew
Audio Supervisor
Head Electrician
This side-splitting comedy brimming with slamming doors, wardrobe malfunctions, and flying sardines makes a perfect holiday outing for friends and family.

Noises Off

By Michael Frayn
Directed by Ilyse Robbins
The show runs for approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes. There will be one 15-minute intermission between Act 1 and Act II.
There will be a second 15-minute intermission between Act II and Act III.
2024/25 Season Sponsors:
Paul Kastner
G. Lee & Diana Humphrey
Production Sponsors: Nina & Don Berk
Scenic Design Sponsors: Sharon & John Parisi
Celebrating 50 Years Corporate Sponsor:
Summary

Doomed from the start, the play-within-a play Nothing On is led by an exasperated director managing a company which includes a middle-aged has-been, an unseasoned bombshell, an overly-sensitive stage manager, and a half-deaf actor. They’re all on their way to an opening night that will leave everything in complete shambles both on and off the stage. It’s all out chaos as jealousies, egos, and seething rage spill out onto the stage resulting in a dizzying circus of missed entrances and exits, mixed-up lines, slamming doors, and falling trousers. It’s a fight to the finish as a cuckoo cocktail of disaster makes its way to the final curtain.

Content Warning: The shenanigans of Noises Off include a bit of salty language, some sexual situations, and slapstick humor.

* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

** Represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 of the IATSE

° Stage Directors and Choreographers Society

† Member of AFM Local 9-535 

"Erik D. Diaz’s impressive two-sided set is moved not once but twice by one of the hardest-working and most capable stage crews in Boston."-R. Scott Reedy, Broadway World
"This is a show that absolutely must not be missed." - Kevin T. Baldwin, METRMAG.com
"Director Ilyse Robbins, a strong ensemble, and skillful stage managers are delivering Frayn’s high-spirited hilarity with properly raucous results."-Jules Becker, Jewish Journal
"A glorious farce expertly performed and directed." - Rich Fahey, On Stages Boston
"If you were looking for something light-hearted for the holidays, this is a good bet."-Richard Campbell, Invisible Art Café
Read the feature in Northeastern's Huntington News by Heidi Ho