Probably the funniest play you’ll ever see on stage, comes to Salford’s Lowry arts centre from June 17-22.
Noises Off is a modern classic, showing the hilarious consequences of a theatre company hitting the road when the cast are ill-equipped, badly prepared and increasingly disorderly.
Michael Frayn’s backstage farce serves up a riotous double bill: a play within a play.
Starring Neil Pearson (Drop the Dead Donkey, and Bridget Jones’ Diary) and Maureen Beattie (Lewis, The Bill, Taggart, Casualty), the show hurtles along to keep pace with the backstage antics of a theatre company as they stumble their way from rehearsals to the exhausting end of a disastrous tour.
Inspired to write the play having watched one of his own productions from the wings and realised that it was funnier from behind, Frayn’s three-part tale of increasing woe amongst the inept cast of the fictional play Nothing On lets audiences see theatrical meltdown at first hand.
This production, directed by Olivier award-winner Lindsay Posner, premièred in 2011 at the Old Vic in London to widespread critical acclaim and visits Salford as part of a national tour.
Box Office: 0843 208 6005 or www.thelowry.com.