Noises Off — Queensland Theatre

Overview

Come to see Noises Off; stay to see Nothing On. That's the play-within-a-play bundle that Queensland Theatre's latest production offers when it takes to QPAC's Playhouse from June 3 to 25.

QT's artistic director Sam Strong helms this adaptation of Michael Frayn's classic farce, which he wrote back in 1982. In fact, the story of how it came about is quite interesting in itself. While waiting in the wings watching something else that he had written, Frayn thought it was funnier when viewed from behind the stage, and the idea to write a play that took that perspective came to mind.

So, to clarify, Noises Off was the end result, and Nothing On the farce that it all revolves around. Expect clumsy bombshells, troubled actresses, booze-loving septuagenarians and a haughty director, plus everything that can go wrong in the theatre, well, going wrong. Simon Burke, Ray Chong Nee, Libby Munro, Hugh Parker, James Saunders, Louise Siversen and Nicki Wendt star.