What a farce! Co-produced by Metro Theatre and First Impressions Theatre, Noises Off is on at Metro Theatre until March 31st. Michael Frayn’s fantastic farce thoroughly skewers theatre, with one of the most madcap, fast-paced comedy’s to ever grace stages. The three-acts follow the company of Nothing On – the play-within-the-play – from dress rehearsal,…
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Noises Off Goes Over The Top At The Arts Club
A farce is defined as a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations – Noises Off at The Arts Club Theatre Company Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage certainly meets that definition. Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, is often referred to as one of the funniest plays ever written….
Baskerville – A Sherlock Holmes Mystery at The Arts Club
The Arts Club Theatre Company’s 53rd season opened last week with the farce Baskerville – A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. Based on the Arthur Conan Doyle classic The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Baskerville maintains the core of the mystery but delivers it as a fast-paced farcical comedy. As with most Holmes Mysteries, the story is narrated…
Don’t Dress For Dinner at Gateway Theatre
Don’t Dress For Dinner, the final show of the Gateway Theatre’s 2015-16 season is onstage now. Adapted by Marc Camoletti, the English adaptation of the French, Pyjamas Pour Six, Don’t Dress For Dinner has all the hallmarks of a classic mid-century farce. Husbands and wives, best friends and mistresses, a case of mistaken identity, slammed…