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"Noises Off"
The dizziest, funniest, backstage farce ever written, Noises Off careens us through the roller coaster lives of a hapless troupe of provincial actors as they go through the motions of a cringe-worthy comedy known as Nothing On. In a brilliant turnabout of door slamming miscues, misdirections, and misunderstandings, onstage romantic intriguers are foiled by bunglers and burglars, while the players backstage exhibit their best follies and worst foibles spinning the play toward a hysterical climax. The theater world turns with side-splitting results to reveal mystery and mayhem as the cast and crew pull out all the stops to keep track of newspapers and cactuses, former and future lovers, missing cast mates, and the odd sardine.