NOISES OFF to Open The San Francisco Playhouse Season
Performances will run from September 25 to November 8.
San Francisco Playhouse is launching its 23rd season with Michael Frayn's rollicking backstage comedy Noises Off. This comedic classic follows a string of recent hit Playhouse productions of fast-paced farces including The Play That Goes Wrong, Clue, and The 39 Steps. Full of slapstick silliness and choreographed chaos, this uproarious comedy follows a dysfunctional British theatre troupe struggling to stage the door-slamming farce Nothing On. The drama rages both onstage and behind the scenes as missed cues, misplaced props, and romantic entanglements cause their production to descend into madcap mayhem.
Noises Off premiered in the West End in 1982, winning the Olivier Award for Best Play. It then opened on Broadway in 1983, where it was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Play. It has since been revived twice on Broadway and adapted into a film featuring a starry roster that included Carol Burnett, Michael Caine, and Christopher Reeve. The New York Post deemed it “the funniest farce ever written” while The New York Times lauded it as “a festival of delirium. Spectacularly funny. The most dexterously realized comedy ever about putting on a comedy.”
“Noises Off is not just a great farce, but a great play,” said artistic director Bill English. “Its metatheatrical structure gives it an edge on all other farces, and it brings out the human hidden between the laughs.”
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The Secret Garden Warren Theater at Sonoma State University (6/12-6/28) |
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West Side Story—Film with Live Orchestra Davies Symphony Hall (7/09-7/10) |
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The Still Point: An Immersive Experience SOMArts Cultural Center (7/16-7/25) |
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark SPARC (7/03-7/26) |
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Comedy Oakland at Quinn's Lighthouse Sat June 27 7pm Quinn's Lighthouse (6/27-6/27) |
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The Fall Show Shotgun Players Ashby Stage (9/26-10/25) |
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C.S. Lewis On Stage: Further Up and Further In Irvine Barclay Theatre (7/09-7/10) |
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Josh Kornbluth’s What Is To Be Done?: Fighting Fascism and Depression The Marsh San Francisco (6/19-7/31) |
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Pamela Gaye Walker’s Little BIG Mouth The Marsh Berkeley (7/12-8/02) |
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Comedy Oakland at Quinn's Lighthouse Fri June 26 8:30pm Quinn's Lighthouse (6/26-6/26) |