PHS theater preview: “Noises Off”

 

The fall play, “Noises Off,” is a play written by English playwright Michael Frayn and was performed Sept. 19-21.

The show is unique. It is not a play, but a play about a play.

Technically the audience is watching the actors of this play try to be actors of a play they’re trying to perform. There are the occasional flops and such that add humor to the play, such as when the director Lloyd Dallas berates one of the actors over the importance of carrying a bag of luggage and some groceries into an office.

Nothing goes the right way and everything turns into an unstable, chaotic, and uncontrolled mess of a performance.

The play features humor shown in the way the actors behave as the cast begins having conflicts within their group. As their performances begin to collapse and odd things begin to take place, the plot really gets rolling.

The cast of “Noises Off” have been rehearsing this for play for months. Jacob Morris, who plays the role of director Lloyd Dallas, said there really isn’t a main character. In fact, they’re all sort of main characters.

“It’s really fun. In my opinion, it’s the best play we’ve put on,” he stated. “This is the smallest cast I’ve worked with. There is only nine people in the entire play.”

Morris, a junior who also appeared in last year’s rendition of “The Crucible,” said that the storyline of the play is a reflection of how to handle adversity, whether it is in show business or the real world.

“I hope that [the audience] can kinda see how us actors cope with things that go on backstage,” Morris said.