“You'll laugh, laugh, and laugh some more at this truly timeless comedy...The TRT production...featuring a marvelous cast, is an absolute pleasure...Don't miss the hilarious rendition...The cast masters the play within a play format with its absurd, fast paced action. You never know what is going to happen next. Their comedic timing is perfect and they bring enormous energy to every scene...Audiences will love all of the unique, distinctive characters, wonderfully portrayed.”
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“This is an unabashed celebration of the pure zaniness that is farce...Those laughs come through steadily at Two River. As affairs in the play get more and more madcap...Lapine does truly impressive work in choreographing and emphasizing the gags to get the most out of this hectic script...Expertly executed and masterfully unpretentious, it is little more than slapstick for the sake of slapstick, and in that regard it is simply a whole lot of fun.”
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“’Nothing On’ is the play being rehearsed within...‘Noises Off’ by a troupe of inept actors...Two River’s cast is anything but inept; their bungling of the third-rate inner play is a rib-tickling delight, a masterclass in comic timing...The confusion is so well written and performed that we can follow it even when the on-stage characters cannot...The stellar nine-member cast functions as one...Comedy really is hard. This 'Noises Off' pulls it off. It hits its marks and gets its laughs."
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“Lapine doesn’t try to find new dimensions in Frayn’s script. This is a straightforward, dependably hilarious production of a dependably hilarious play...This is an action-packed, physically demanding comedy, with characters frequently breaking through windows, or falling down stairs, or crawling around helplessly...The actors in ‘Noises Off’ hit their marks — even when the craziness reaches a feverish peak, in the second act — with the precision of ballet dancers.”
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“Described as the funniest farce ever written, this perennial play has been performed by hundreds of actors...and the Two River Theater version is every is bit as fierce as the best of them...The talented cast really deserves kudos for the aerobic workout we witness in the audience and the timing of this team of actors is spot on, despite all the craziness that never stops for a minute...It’s a fast, funny farce and a welcome bit of fun in the chilly months.”
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“Frayn’s durable farce-within-a-farce, takes place during a disastrous dress rehearsal. The production currently running at TRT...too often feels like one itself...TRT’s production directed with a general lack of timing and taste...never hits on the right balance...The company work so hard and achieve so little...The actors use slapdash physical comedy to overcompensate...It falls a few doors short of a successful farce.”
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