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April 25, 2017
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Famed Farce Noises Off to Receive Resident Company Treatment
With Comically Chaotic Revival at Baltimore’s Everyman Theatre
Theatre’s Season Wraps with Sardines, Silliness and Split-Second Timing
Baltimore, MD – Everyman Theatre’s Resident Company of actors transforms into a British
company of actors during the 1970s in this hotly anticipated revival of Tony Award-Winner
Michael Frayn’s side-splitting farce to end all farces, Noises Off, directed by Founding Artistic
Director Vincent M. Lancisi and running from May 17 through June 18, 2017.
With this love-letter to the thrilling unpredictability of the stage, Everyman Theatre ends its
2016/17 season on a zany note, joined by eight of its Resident Company members portraying a
cast of bumbling British thesps (starring in the fictitious play-within-a-play, “Nothing On”) whose
backstage buffoonery threatens to steal the show. With their opening night on London’s West End
just hours away, can the cast pull their act together before lost lines, love triangles and flying
sardines upstage the production?
Punctuated with wall-to-wall wackiness, carefully timed/choreographed hijinks, and spiked with
color-popping 1970s pizazz and sight gags galore, Noises Off considers what happens when
everything that can go wrong, does go wrong, earning laughs-a-minute from its talented cast.
“We’ve all heard the saying that ‘dying is easy, comedy is hard,’ but working within a Resident
Company provides a level of family-like comfort for the actors that paves the way for hilarity of the
highest caliber to ensue,” said Lancisi. “When audiences recognize our Resident Company
members shifting between the characters they play, and the characters that those characters play
(in the play within the play), it only adds to the infectious mayhem – literally tripling up on the fun.”
Resident Company members Deborah Hazlett (The Roommate, Death of a Salesman, A Streetcar
Named Desire, An Inspector Calls) and Danny Gavigan (A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a
Salesman, Ghosts, Deathtrap) lead the show-within-a-show cast as Dotty Otley, the top-billed star of
Nothing On and Garry Lejeune, her leading man. They are joined by fellow Resident Company
members Bruce Randolph Nelson (Great Expectations, Wait Until Dark, Death of a Salesman, A
Streetcar Named Desire) as Nothing On co-star Frederick Fellowes, Beth Hylton (A Streetcar Named
Desire, Death of a Salesman, Outside Mullingar) as actress Belinda Blair, and Wil Love (Death of a
Salesman, Outside Mullingar, Deathtrap) as Selsdon Mowbray, a veteran actor with a weakness for
the bottle. The show-within-a-show cast is rounded out by Emily Kester, making her Everyman
Theatre debut as the naïve actress Brooke Ashton.
Other featured Resident Company actors in Noises Off include Carl Schurr (Death of a Salesman, A
Streetcar Named Desire, Blithe Spirit) as Lloyd Dallas, the director of Nothing On, with Eric Berryman
(Red, Topdog/Underdog, A Raisin in the Sun) and Megan Anderson (Dot, Wait Until Dark, Death of a
Salesman, A Streetcar Named Desire), respectively, as stage manager Tim Allgood and assistant
stage manager Poppy Norton-Taylor.
The Noises Off design team includes Resident Designer Company members Daniel Ettinger (Set
Design), Jay A. Herzog (Lighting), Gary Logan (Dialects), Lewis Shaw (Fight Choreography) and Jillian
Mathews (Props Master). Costume Design is provided by Eric Abele and Sound Design by Phillip
Owen.
Noises Off first premiered in 1982 in London and opened in 1983 on Broadway where it received
a Tony Award nomination for Best Play. Performed nearly nonstop ever since, Everyman Theatre’s
production follows a recent Broadway revival produced by Roundabout Theatre Company.
Tickets for Noises Off are now on sale online (www.everymantheatre.org), by phone
(410.752.2208), or at the Everyman Theatre Box Office (315 W. Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD
21201).
Event Listings
Pay-What-You-Can Performance
May 16, 2017 at 7:30 PM
Pay-What-You-Can (suggested minimum donation: $5) to see the final dress rehearsal of Noises
Off. Tickets are sold on a first-come, first-serve basis at the Box Office beginning at 5:30pm.
Tickets must be paid for in cash. Seating is general admission.
TNT: Theatre Night for Teens
May 16, 2017 at 6:00 PM
Students in grades 9-12 can enjoy dinner from Noodles & Company, an artist meet-and-greet with
Noises Off prop master Jillian Matthews, and the 7:30 PM performance, followed by post-show
discussion and dessert. Tickets: $10 each.
The Show Must Go On! A Stoop Storytelling Event
May 22, 2017 (Drinks/music at 6:00 PM; Performance at 7:30 PM)
Everyman and Stoop Storytelling partner to present an entertaining evening of hilarious-but-true
stories about the unexpected pitfalls and pratfalls of the stage. Tickets: $20 each.
Taste of Everyman: Wacky Mix-Ups
June 1, 2017 at 6:00 PM
Mix and mingle with other theatre lovers during a pre-show social, this month featuring unique
cocktail concoctions combining the most unexpected ingredients, and paired with hors d’oeuvres
by The French Kitchen. Tickets: $60 each for show and event.
World of the Play
June 3, 2017 at 5:00 PM
Take part in an in-depth panel discussion on the themes and topics of the show, hosted by Marc
Steiner (WEAA’s The Marc Steiner Show). Tickets: $5 each (free for subscribers).
Salon Series: Women’s Voices: Trouble In Mind
June 5, 2017 (Cocktails at 6:00 PM; Performance at 7:00 PM)
A reading of Trouble In Mind by Obie Award-winning African-American playwright Alice Childress,
directed by Resident Company member Dawn Ursula. Tickets: $15 each ($5 for students).
Cast Conversations
Jun 8, 2017 at 9:30 PM
Talk about the play with the members of the cast after the show. Free.
About Everyman Theatre
Everyman Theatre is a professional Equity theatre company celebrating the actor, with a Resident
Company of artists from the Baltimore/DC area. Founded in 1990 by Vincent M. Lancisi, the
theatre is dedicated to engaging the audience through a shared experience between actor and
audience seeking connection and emotional truth in performance. Everyman is committed to
presenting high quality plays that are affordable and accessible to everyone. The theatre strives to
engage, inspire and transform artists, audiences and community through theatre of the highest
artistic standards and is committed to embodying the promise of its name, Everyman Theatre.
Noises Off is presented by production sponsor University of Maryland, Baltimore. The 16/17
Season is generously sponsored by LifeBridge Health and Neil & Ellen Meltzer. Everyman Theatre’s
Pay-What-You-Can nights are supported by Dr. E. Lee & Bea Robbins. Everyman Theatre is proud
to have The Baltimore Sun Media Group and WYPR Season Media Sponsors. MSAC provides
financial support and technical assistance to non-profit organizations, units of government,
colleges and universities for arts activities. Funding for the Maryland State Arts Council is also
provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
Everyman Theatre is a proud member of the Bromo Tower Arts and Entertainment District and
the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance.
Vincent M. Lancisi is the Founding Artistic Director of Everyman Theatre; Jonathan K. Waller is the
Managing Director. For information about Everyman Theatre, visit www.everymantheatre.org or
call 410.752.2208.
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