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Complex Theatre

NOISES OFF

By Michael Frayn 

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'NOISES OFF' IS A DISASTROUS DELIGHT

New Harmony Theatre's first show of the season is a complete disaster.

That's great, since the script for Michael Frayn's backstage farce-within-a-farce maps a furiously choreographed, madcap dash toward that destination.

Armed with Frayn's map, director Michael Unger, his production team and 10-member cast, followed through with a frothy, frenzied, often breathlessly funny evening of folly.

It was a wild, bumpy ride, with ax attacks, crashing scenery, pratfalls on sardine-slicked floors, and a full-body tumble down a flight of stairs.

The entire cast plunged through the show's polyrhythmic choreography of door-slamming entrances and exits, axe, cactus and sardine attacks with abandoned precision.

New Harmony Theatre's wild ride runs through June 25. Book it while you can.

- Evansville Courier & Press Evansville, IN