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Noises Off

Autor Michael Frayn
en Limba Engleză Paperback – feb 2010
Farce / 5m, 4f / 2 Int. Called the funniest farce ever written, NOISES OFF returned to Broadway with Patti LuPone and Peter Gallagher and a manic menagerie that sent reviewers searching for new accolades as a cast of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop called NOTHING'S ON. "The most dexterously realized comedy ever about putting on a comedy. A spectacularly funny, peerless backstage farce. This dizzy, well-known romp is festival of delirium." - The New York Times "Bumper car brilliance...If laughter is indeed the best medicine, NOISES OFF is worth its weight in Cipro." - New York Daily News "The funniest farce ever written! Never before has side-splitting taken on a meaning dangerously close to the non-metaphorically medical." - New York Post "As side-splitting a farce as I have seen. Ever? Ever." - New York Magazine
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780573619694
ISBN-10: 0573619697
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 127 x 203 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Samuel French, Inc.

Caracteristici

Winner of the Olivier and Evening Standard Award for Best New Comedy, Noises Off is one of the most famous plays in 20th Century theatre

Notă biografică

Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and read Russian, French and Moral Sciences (Philosophy) at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He began his career as a journalist on the Manchester Guardian and the Observer. His award-winning plays include Alphabetical Order, Make and Break and Noises Off, all of which received Best Comedy of the Year awards, while Benefactors was named Best Play of the Year. Two of his more recent plays, Copenhagen and Democracy, also won numerous awards (including, for Copenhagen, the Tony in New York and the Prix Molière in Paris). In 2006 Donkeys' Years was revived in the West End thirty years after its premiere and was followed in 2007 by The Crimson Hotel, at the Donmar, and by Afterlife, at the National Theatre, in 2008. Frayn has translated Chekhov's last four plays, dramatised a selection of his one-act plays and short stories under the title The Sneeze, and adapted his first, untitled play, as Wild Honey. Frayn's novels include Towards the End of the Morning (in the USA, Against Entropy), The Trick of It, A Landing on the Sun, Headlong and Spies. His most recent books were a work of philosophy, The Human Touch, and Stage Directions, a collection of his writing on the theatre.

Recenzii

'Frayn's construct is based on the principle that if farce involves watching the wheels come off a well-oiled machine, then nothing could be funnier than seeing the wheels fall off a farce itself... Pure comedy gold.'
'Michael Frayn's deleriously funny comedy about actors in crisis is probably being produced somewhere in the world every week of the year.'
'Another of Frayn's regular motifs surfaces here, the mayhem that results when precise order breaks down.'
'Is Michael Frayn's farce about a farce the funniest play ever commited to paper? It would certainly be in my top 3.'
'You have to hand it to Michael Frayn. He is nothing if not electric. It is scarcely beleivable that he is the author of Copenhagen (a deeply philisophical play about the politics of science) and this most famous of modern English farces, Noises off.'
As finely worked as a Swiss watch and as funny as the human condition permits..the zigzag brilliance of the text as the clunky lines of the farce-within-a-farce rub against the sharp dialogue of reality.
Genius farce..achingly, foot-stompingly, seal-honkingly hysterical.Frayn has written more serious plays but none more profound.Only Noises Off captures the baffling resilience of human existence.
A spot on parody..achieves an almost mathematical elegance as Frayn calculates all the many and varied ways in which it can all go wrong. Noises Off is cunningly structured...Noises Off offers an infallible escape in to happiness.
Michael Frayn's play feels fresh, witty and polished.It is a triptych that illuminates the fragility of drama and the relationships of those who create it.It is entertaining and painful - a summation of all that farce can do.
There has never been a more brilliantly conceived machine for helpless laughter than Michael Frayn's 1982 classic Noises Off....deliriously funny..
Many claims have been made for Michael Frayn's award-winning Noises Off, including that it's the funniest play ever written.The skilfull structure of the piece means the performance builds and builds..
It's comic bliss.
A brilliant farce set behind the scenes of a dreadful one..a richly detailed tapestry of catastrophe.
Frank Rich loved it, 'Noises Off', said the great N'Yawk critic, 'is, was and always will be the funniest play written in my lifetime'.Frayn's orchestration of his materials is dazzlingly skillful.
Imagine a comedy so definitively comic that there seemed no point in ever writing another.I cannot think of another play which has quite so obviously been written by a comic genius...a jaw-droppingly clever piece of work.
remains a laughter-generating machine
Michael Frayn's first-rate farce about a farce follows a second-rate troupe stating a third-rate British sex comedy . . . widely thought . . . to be the funniest play every written . . . It is, to put it academically, a metafarce - a farce about a farce - into which Mr. Frayn has inserted a near-literal turn of the dramatic screw whose ingenuity borders on genius . . . To say that nothing goes right for them is to understate the case by a factor of . . . oh, ten thousand. [...] flawless. If laughter is the best medicine, then 'Noises Off' is surely capable at the very least of curing double pneumonia.
a classic farce and a fiendishly ingenious homage to the form . . . raucously delightful
this kind of comedic brilliance never gets stale.
not just one of the funniest plays ever written but one of the best.

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This play opens with a touring company dress-rehearsing "Nothing On", a conventional farce. Mixing mockery and homage, Frayn heaps into this play a stock of characters and situation