Noises Off at Beaver Dam Community Theatre

Dates: (10/21/2011 - 10/29/2011 )

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Beaver Dam Community Theatre

219 N. Spring St.
Beaver Dam,WI 53916

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Phone: (920) 885-6891

Tickets: $12-$14

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NOISES OFF recounts the misadventures of a third-rate theatre troupe as they tour a play titled "Nothing On".
In theatre parlance, "noises off" refers to offstage sound effects. In this case, the noises off are the backstage yelps and battle cries of the actors who are entangled in a farce of their own.
In Act One, the cast and crew stumble through a catastrophic final rehearsal of the first act of "Nothing On" as the clock passes midnight. Hampered by wayward plates of sardines, broken doors, a lost contact lens and their general lack of talent, they lamely carry on for their caustic director.
The silly plot seems to involve a daffy maid in a country house, where one couple plans an illicit affair, another couple hides from the tax collector, and a drunken burglar and an Arab sheik complicate the action. At intervals in the botched rehearsal, the audience gets a glimpse of the actors' own quirky personalities and company romances.

Act Two of NOISES OFF takes the madness one step further. The audience once again watches Act One of "Nothing On," but from backstage. A month has passed on tour and tempers are flaring. Smitten lovers would now like to kill each other, but "the show must go on." The actors try to keep up appearances onstage for their matinee audience, but backstage it's a pantomime of choreographed chaos.

Act Three is almost two months later, and we see Act One of "Nothing On" from the front again. By now the actors are in open warfare and the stage is their battlefield where they rewrite dialogue, sabotage fellow actors and destroy props.

Authors

Michael Frayn

Cast and Creative team for Noises Off at Beaver Dam Community Theatre

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