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Noises Off

A comedy by Michael Frayn
Wednesday 8 November 2006 - Saturday 11 November 2006
Faringdon Junior School, 26 Gloucester Street, Faringdon SN7 7HY
Directed by Dave Headey

Performances start 7:30 pm. Doors open 30 minutes earlier.
Tickets: £7. Concessions £5.
Tickets were available from White Horse Country Wear, 6 Cornmarket, Faringdon.

‘Noises Off’ is one of Michael Frayn’s best known comedies. It follows the fortunes of a touring professional theatre company, mainly out of work ex-television actors, as they attempt to earn a crust by touring a very silly trouser-dropping farce – “Nothing On” – around the British provinces. Relationships, rivalries and misunderstandings among the cast and crew are as fraught as those in the play they are trying to perform. All we ever see of “Nothing On” is Act One – three times! First of all we meet the cast, director and stage crew at their final rehearsal, and then twice more in performance. What makes the second act of Noises Off so unique is that we, the audience, now view the split-level set from behind, and so witness what’s going on silently backstage during a performance.

More info? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noises_Off

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Photographs by Joan Lee

Cast (in order of appearance):

Dotty Otley - Lesley Phillips
Lloyd Dallas - Daniel Lander
Garry Lejeune - Jeff Barry
Brooke Ashton - Alex Oliver
Poppy Norton-Taylor - Debbie Lock
Frederick Fellowes - Simon Wisbey
Belinda Blair - Sarah Varnom
Tim Allgood - Rob Thorpe
Selsdon Mowbray - Roger Leitch

See programme for further details.

Production No.153 (4 shows were performed over 4 days)