THEATRE REVIEW: Even after 40 years, Noises Off’s backstage farce is fun, not funny.
Clearly, the 40-year-old comedy is funny enough to warrant three revivals in London's West End and two on Broadway. And it's funny enough to have become a staple of both amateur theatres and professional playhouses the likes of Zach Theatre, where its opening night production earned rounds of laughter and a standing ovation. But not from me.
, which features a playwright anxiously awaiting the opening night reviews of his Broadway play along with his dysfunctional creative team and an infamously savage critic. It's alternately raucous, ridiculous, and tender – a love letter to the theatre.is merely ridiculous. It follows an insecure and incompetent acting troupe defined by their respective foibles – drunk , dim-witted , jealous , delicate , melodramatic , and absent-minded – as they tour in a silly British sex farce titled.
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