Noises Off can easily be considered the mother of all play-within-a-play comedies ever written. It is about a misplaced director and a team of mediocre actors trying to put up a sex comedy. Through the rehearsals and various shows in a run, the play and their interpersonal relationships go from bad to worse. Hundreds of sardines fly, doors open and close endlessly, and the actors are never in the same place for more than a second — all this creates an energy that makes the collapse of this theatre company and the show even more monumental. Things reach a disastrous stage when the actors start getting injured physically, forget their lines, make wrong entries and exits, and find themselves improvising poorly to save face and probably the final show.
The group:
In 2013, The Company Theatre completed 20 years of producing quality theatre with performances all over India and around the world. It concerns itself with not just producing work but also with rigorous research and training in a theatre residency that it has developed in the countryside of Maharashtra.
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Director Says:
“To perform for The Hindu’s MPTF has become like coming back home to our extremely informed and welcoming audiences in South India.”
Cast & crew
Brooke: Yuki Ellias/ Prerna Chawla
Belinda: Shivani Tanksale/ Shruti Vyas
Poppy: Rachel D’Souza/ Sayani Gupte
Dotty: Anuja Ghosalkar/ Kiyomi Mehta
Lloyd: Vivek Gomber/ Naveen Kaushik
Philip: Neil Bhoopalam/ Jim Sarbh
Tim: Sujay Saple/ Daniel D’Souza
Selsdon: Satchit Puranik/ Sagar Deshmukh
Garry: Sumeet Vyas/ Tariq Vasudev
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