russ (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} goulo) wrote,@ 2004-04-02 23:07:00 |
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noises off
Late today I got a call from Chad, who's in a new production of the classic farce Noises Off by Michael Frayn, which just opened Thursday, and he offered me a free ticket to tonight's show. I've seen this play a couple times before over the years, and it's good fun, so I was certainly happy to check it out for free. It's a clever comedy that's a play-within-a-play, as a group of actors rehearse and perform a goofy British sex farce (mistaken identities, running around in confusion, women in lingerie, all that good stuff). Structurally the play is neat because it's 3 acts, and in each act you watch the same first act of this fictional British play which they are performing, but each time it's quite different. It's a fast-paced nonsensical stream of funny ridiculousness, and I laughed a lot, especially in the second act (which is great because you watch the play-within-the-play from backstage instead of from the audience - the entire set is rotated 180 degrees between the acts). It's deceptively simple looking: there's actually story development going on under the surface involving the interactions between the actors, and their relationships change between the acts, and there's really virtuoso timing as characters run back and forth and enter and exit and fall down stairs and whatnot. It is performed in Arts on Real, a space I'd not been to before on Real Street (between Manor and MLK, east of I-35, just north of Flatbed Press) which has a nice auditorium with comfy seats. Good fun - check it out!
Mi ĵus spektis la komikan teatraĵon "Noises Off" ("Bruoj For", eble - estas stranga titolo, kiu temas pri teatra terminaro, kaj mi ne certas kiel traduki ĝin...) Mia amiko Chad estas aktoro en la prezentaĵo, kaj li donis senpagan bileton al mi. Mi ĝuis ĝin, ĉar ĝi estas tre lerta kaj rapida kaj komika. Temas pri teatraĵo-en-la-teatraĵo. Ni rigardas aktoraron, kiu prezentas la saman akton (el stulteta brita komika teatraĵo, kun konfuzado, sekseco, ktp) trifoje, kaj ĉiu fojo malsamas. La dua plej interesas ĉar ni vidas ĝin laŭ vidpunkto post la fono anstataŭ en la spektantaro: la tuta scenojo turniĝas inter la aktoj!
Late today I got a call from Chad, who's in a new production of the classic farce Noises Off by Michael Frayn, which just opened Thursday, and he offered me a free ticket to tonight's show. I've seen this play a couple times before over the years, and it's good fun, so I was certainly happy to check it out for free. It's a clever comedy that's a play-within-a-play, as a group of actors rehearse and perform a goofy British sex farce (mistaken identities, running around in confusion, women in lingerie, all that good stuff). Structurally the play is neat because it's 3 acts, and in each act you watch the same first act of this fictional British play which they are performing, but each time it's quite different. It's a fast-paced nonsensical stream of funny ridiculousness, and I laughed a lot, especially in the second act (which is great because you watch the play-within-the-play from backstage instead of from the audience - the entire set is rotated 180 degrees between the acts). It's deceptively simple looking: there's actually story development going on under the surface involving the interactions between the actors, and their relationships change between the acts, and there's really virtuoso timing as characters run back and forth and enter and exit and fall down stairs and whatnot. It is performed in Arts on Real, a space I'd not been to before on Real Street (between Manor and MLK, east of I-35, just north of Flatbed Press) which has a nice auditorium with comfy seats. Good fun - check it out!
Mi ĵus spektis la komikan teatraĵon "Noises Off" ("Bruoj For", eble - estas stranga titolo, kiu temas pri teatra terminaro, kaj mi ne certas kiel traduki ĝin...) Mia amiko Chad estas aktoro en la prezentaĵo, kaj li donis senpagan bileton al mi. Mi ĝuis ĝin, ĉar ĝi estas tre lerta kaj rapida kaj komika. Temas pri teatraĵo-en-la-teatraĵo. Ni rigardas aktoraron, kiu prezentas la saman akton (el stulteta brita komika teatraĵo, kun konfuzado, sekseco, ktp) trifoje, kaj ĉiu fojo malsamas. La dua plej interesas ĉar ni vidas ĝin laŭ vidpunkto post la fono anstataŭ en la spektantaro: la tuta scenojo turniĝas inter la aktoj!
