The Old Globe announced on Friday the final production for its previously announced 2025 season, Michael Frayn’s 1982 British farce “Noises Off.”
The production, which will run July 6 to Aug. 3 in the larger of its two indoor theaters, the Shiley Stage, will be directed by Gordon Greenberg. Greenberg is the director and co-writer of three comedies that have been presented at the Globe over the past five years, including “Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show,” “Crime and Punishment, a Comedy” and the now-running “Dracula, a Comedy of Terrors.”
“Noises Off” is a three-act play within a play set inside an English theater. In the play’s first act, the audience sees a play rehearsal that is plagued with missed lines, missed cues and prop mishaps. The second act shows the play being performed for an audience, but the audience only sees the action from backstage, where fights and chaos reign. In the third act, the scenery is turned around once again and the audience sees one of the final performances of the play’s run, but by now the cast is at war, the scenery is collapsing and the actors begin ad-libbing to cover up the unfolding disaster.
Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein describes “Noises Off” as one of the funniest English-language plays of the past century.
“For some time all of us at the Globe have been looking for a way to bring it to San Diego. That we can do so now is because of our dear friend Gordon Greenberg, perhaps the most adept comic director now working in the American theater,” Edelstein said in a statement. “‘Noises Off’ willbe a highlight of the theatergoing year in our city.”
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