Noises Off

Noises Off

    Author: Michael Frayn

    First Performance: 1982, London

    Published: 1982

    Genre: Farce in 3 acts

    Setting: Stage set of an English country home in three different theatres, c.1980

    Cast: 7m, 3f

‘Mrs Clackett’, ‘a housekeeper of character’, answers a telephone enquiry about the house. She breaks off: she is a famous but ageing actress Dotty Otley, rehearsing a play Nothing On that opens the following day under the direction of Lloyd Dallas. Estate agent ‘Roger’ enters with the attractive young ‘Vicki’ for a quick seduction and is surprised to find ‘Mrs Clackett’ at home. ‘Philip’ and ‘Flavia Brent’, the owners, arrive back home unexpectedly, and there is some delay to the rehearsal while doors are fixed, and an elderly alcoholic in the cast Selsdon...

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