Noises Off
From: Monday, 8th April 2013
To: Saturday, 13 April 2013
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
It's after midnight and Garry, Frederick, Belinda and Brooke, hapless actors rehearsing the trouser-dropping farce, Nothing On, are confused. Should Dotty be holding the newspaper or the sardines? Should there even be sardines? What's gone wrong with all the door handles? And where the hell is Selsdon Mowbray? A month later the troupe hits Goole, and tempers are fraying, hearts are breaking and the riotous fun on-stage is paralleled only by volcanic excitements off-stage. But will the crises turn the comedy into a catastrophe? Can the show go on? Everything desperate director Lloyd Dallas does to make things better, just makes things a little worse.
Our Review:
Anne Morley-Priestman - 8 April 2013
Included in the programme for this tour of Michael Frayn's Noises Off is a mock-up of the programme for the ghastly production being inflicted on the worthy playgoers of, among others, Weston-super-Mare, Ashton-under-Lyne and Stockton-on-Tees. We who watch the technical-cum-dress rehearsal and two matinée performances as Nothing On and its cast disintegrate so hilariously can spare a thought for those off-stage OAPs who still have two acts of thespian mayhem to survive.
]Lindsay Posner] milks every farcial moment until its pips squeak. The play-within-a-play's director Lloyd (Neil Pearson erupts from the stalls as his cast, led by fading comedienne Dotty (Maureen Beattie) – who has ploughed her life savings into this tour, proceed to make his university-trained hackles rise to their bristliest. Ingénue Brooke (Tomasin Rand) and ASM Poppy (Danielle Flett) may share Lloyd's bed but that doesn't let them escape his wra...
Cast
David Bark-Jones (Gary Lejeune/Roger Tramplemain)
Maureen Beattie (Dotty Otley/Mrs Clackett)
Simon Bubb (Tim Allgood)
Danielle Flett (Poppy Norton-Taylor)
Geoffrey Freshwater (Selsdon Mowbray/Burglar)
Neil Pearson (Lloyd Dallas)
Thomasin Rand (Brooke Ashton/Vicki)
Sasha Waddell (Belinda Blair/Flavia Brent)
Creative
Michael Frayn (Author)
Old Vic (Producer)
Lindsay Posner (Director)
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