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Farce / 5m, 4f / 2 Int. Called the funniest farce ever written, NOISES OFF returned to Broadway with Patti LuPone and Peter Gallagher and a manic menagerie that sent reviewers searching for new accolades as a cast of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop called NOTHING'S ON. "The most dexterously realized comedy ever about putting on a comedy. A spectacularly funny, peerless backstage farce. This dizzy, well-known romp is festival of delirium." - The New York Times "Bumper car brilliance...If laughter is indeed the best medicine, NOISES OFF is worth its weight in Cipro." - New York Daily News "The funniest farce ever written! Never before has side-splitting taken on a meaning dangerously close to the non-metaphorically medical." - New York Post "As side-splitting a farce as I have seen. Ever? Ever." - New York Magazine
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This has got to be one of the funniest and most succesful plays ever written. I saw it with Peter Egan,Patricia Hodge, Jeff Rawle and many more famous names in the cast, in fact I am writing this review with a photo of the cast on the wall in front of me. Its also a staple of the amateur dramatic societies and it was so succesful with one of our leading groups that it's run was extended for an extra week. Highly recommended. Another play I can recommend which seems to be doing well with Amdram Societies is a comedy bordering on farce called Lust In The Dust from New Theatre Publications.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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This play is sure to go down in history as a farce of great merit. All the elements of farce are there from the dumb blonde to the randy young guy but here we get it two-fold as we see both a farce in rehearsal ('Nothing On') and the play we are watching. It gives a great insight into how backstage relationships effect on stage performances and is a must for any actor or anyone with dramatic notions, or just anyone who wants a good laugh on many different levels. Truely excellent.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Michael Frayn's "Noises Off" is the farce to end all farces, a hilariously funny play that had me fall off my theatre seat repeatedly because I just couldn't stop laughing. A group of moderately talented actors attempts to perform a bedroom farce called "Nothing On", but their own incompentence and personal disagreements get in the way to result in perfect, bizarre chaos.
This is one of the funniest plays I've ever seen. Much of the humour, however, depends on seeing the whole thing acted out on stage. It's not nearly half as funny if you read it as a book.
That said, if this play comes to a theatre near you, go and watch it by all means!! If afterwards you want something to remember it by, buy this book.
The play would get 5 stars easily, the book is barely a replacement for seeing the whole thing live, so it's just 4 stars from me.
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Frayn is great, but you have to see it, not read it
Frayn is a sometimes genius at farce and satire, but reading the play is just so complicated that it's hard to follow and you just miss the humor. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Alfredo Hamill
PLAY TITLE "NOISES OFF"
WHILST THE SERVICE WAS SATISFACTORY, I WAS DISAPPOINTED TO FIND THAT THE PLAY I PURCHASED HAD MORE THAN ONE VERSION AND THE ONE I BOUGHT WAS INCORRECT. Read more
Published 16 months ago by DOMINO
Absolutely hilarious
Having watched the film with Michael Caine which was based on this farce, I was curious to read the original text - and it's fantastic! Read more
Published on 1 Mar 2009 by Pamela Gallio
Brilliant farce
As a second language learner, I think this is play is full of witty language and word play. It reveals the wits of British English. Read more
Published on 2 July 2002 by Irene
Very very funny!
Noises Off has to be one of the funniest things I have ever read. As the cast relations go as wrong as they can you see how that is shown in a second rate production of sex farce. Read more
Published on 15 Feb 2002
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