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NOISES OFF
by Michael Frayn
directed by Art Manke
February 6 - March 8, 2009
Segerstrom Stage

“The funniest play written in my lifetime,” said The New York Times critic Frank Rich when Noises Off opened to universally ecstatic reviews, propelled Michael Frayn to international fame and started a trend that will never end:  keeping audiences in stitches the world over.  Noises Off is a perfectly delightful farce about Nothing On, which is a purposefully terrible farce about sexual daliances.  This play-within-a-play is interrupted as actors come and go, usually at the wrong time and through the wrong doors, while off-stage assignations lead to on-stage chaos.  From first rehearsal to final performance the delirium never ends.  Bring extra oxygen!

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Actors Garry Lejeune (Bill Brochtrup), Dotty Otley (Kandis Chappell) and Frederick Fellowes (Timothy Landfield) get caught up in backstage shenanigans that lead to onstage chaos in the comedy Noises Off, at South Coast Repertory Feb. 6 – March 8. Photo by Henry DiRocco. (clockwise from left) Actors Dotty Otley (Kandis Chappell), Belinda Blair (Nancy Bell), Garry Lejeune (Bill Brochtrup), Brooke Ashton (Jennifer Lyon) and Frederick Fellowes (Timothy Landfield) and get caught up in backstage shenanigans that lead to onstage chaos in the comedy Noises Off, at South Coast Repertory Feb. 6 – March  8. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
        
Director Lloyd Dallas (Kaleo Griffith) tries to placate one of his girlfriends, Brooke Ashton (Jennifer Lyon), and get control over the backstage shenanigans that lead to onstage chaos in the comedy Noises Off, at SCR Feb 6 – Mar 8.  Photo by Henry DiRocco. Actors Belinda Blair (Nancy Bell), Frederick Fellowes (Timothy Landfield) and Dotty Otley (Kandis Chappell) get caught up in backstage shenanigans that lead to onstage chaos in the comedy Noises Off, at South Coast Repertory Feb. 6 – March  8. Photo by Henry DiRocco. Actors Garry Lejeune (Bill Brochtrup), Dotty Otley (Kandis Chappell) and Frederick Fellowes (Timothy Landfield) get caught up in backstage shenanigans that lead to onstage chaos in the comedy Noises Off, at South Coast Repertory Feb. 6 – March 8. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
    
Actors Garry Lejeune (Bill Brochtrup), Dotty Otley (Kandis Chappell) and Frederick Fellowes (Timothy Landfield) get caught up in backstage shenanigans that lead to onstage chaos in the comedy Noises Off, at South Coast Repertory Feb. 6 – March 8. Photo by Henry DiRocco. The cast of Noises Off at South Coast Repertory Feb. 6 – March  8. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Actors Belinda Blair (Nancy Bell), Frederick Fellowes (Timothy Landfield), Dotty Otley (Kandis Chappell), Brooke Ashton (Jennifer Lyon) and Director Lloyd Dallas (Kaleo Griffith) get caught up in backstage shenanigans that lead to onstage chaos in the comedy Noises Off, at South Coast Repertory Feb. 6 – March  8. Photo by Henry DiRocco.