Get ready for humour, chaos and confusion as Michael Frayn’s Noises Off tours to Oxford as the sell-out play celebrates its 40th anniversary
Following its successful West End season, Noises Off heads to the Oxford Playhouse from Tuesday 20th to Saturday 24th February.
Michael Frayn’s celebrated play within a play follows the on and off-stage antics of a touring theatre company stumbling their way through the fictional farce, Nothing On.
From the shambolic final rehearsals before opening night in Weston-super-Mare, to a disastrous matinee in Ashton-under-Lyne seen entirely, and hilariously silently, from backstage, before we share their final, brilliantly catastrophic performance in Stockton-on-Tees.
This production will star Liza Goddard as Dotty Otley, Paul Bradley as Selsdon Mowbray and Simon Shepherd as Lloyd Dallas.
Liza Goddard’s extensive stage comedy credits include Life of Riley, Communicating Doors, Season’s Greetings and Relatively Speaking. Paul Bradley is best known for playing Nigel Bates in EastEnders and Elliot Hope in Holby City. Simon Shepherd’s many stage and TV credits include Peak Practice and the West End productions of Posh, The Duck House, Rapture, Art and Hay Fever.
Presented by Theatre Royal Bath Productions in association with Birmingham Rep, Noises Off first opened in 1982 and is now considered a comedy classic. Frayn’s legendary play has enjoyed stagings worldwide, including five productions in the West End and three on Broadway.
Tickets for Noises Off at Oxford Playhouse start from £14 and are available from Box Office: 01865 305305 or book online at www.oxfordplayhouse.com
