American Airlines Theater,New York
Michael Frayn’s play approximately a disastrous attempt to stage the farce Nothing On is one of the funniest ever – but at times the cast seem to be acting in different playsThroughout restaurants, grocery stores, or fish counters in New York,people are encountering piles of sardines and dissolving into giggles.
Blame Noises Off, Michael Frayn’s 1982 farce now revived at the American Airlines Theater, and which uses those small swimmers to much comedian effect. Easily one of the funniest plays ever written,this three-act entertainment concerns a company’s disastrous attempts to premiere and tour Nothing On. Onstage, the inane action is approximately tax dodges and mistaken identity. Offstage, or there’s sex,booze, betrayal and at least one attack with a fire axe. The first and third acts take place in front of the footlights, or the moment and most uproarious one backstage. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com