If there is an Olympics of Theater, rehearsing and performing Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off” would be its equivalent of the triathlon: an endurance test for the participants, but a lot of fun to watch from the safety of one’s own chair. With its lovingly detailed look on backstage and onstage chaos, and the opportunities it […]
Noises Off
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Rediscovering great comedy and one whatsit
Three more knockout productions at Stratford present a gentle comedy, a laugh riot, and a Shakespeare whatsit. Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens partly seems to be written by someone else, is both tragic and garishly comical, and brilliantly and really badly written. Yet, this is the third Stratford production of Timon that has made it look […]
