Noises off
Subtitle: a play in three acts
By: Michael Frayn.
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Theater -- Production and direction -- Drama; Theatrical companies -- Drama; Actors -- Drama
Genres: Drama.
Description: "Noises Off, the classic farce by the Tony Award-winning author of Copenhagen, is not one play but two: simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the back-stage "drama" that develops during Nothing On's final rehearsal and tour. The two begin to interlock as the characters make their exits from Nothing On only to find themselves making entrances into the even worse nightmare that's happening backstage.

In the end, at the disastrous final performance, the two plots can be kept separate no longer, and coalesce into a single collective nervous breakdown."--BOOK JACKET.