Repertory Philippines is Making Noise With Noises Off
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When in Manila and you saw (or missed) the soap opera from hell  that is August: Osage County, Repertory Philippines is back with the funniest comedy ever made for theater, Noises Off.
Noises Off is a play within a play, and tells the story of a moody director and his team of hapless performers who have to stage a sex farce called Nothing On. Noises Off is written by Michael Frayn in 1982, after realizing that what was happening backstage in theater was funnier than the scenes on stage.
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The cast of Nothing On in pre-production
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Nothing On or Noises Off?Â
Because it is kind of like Inception that it is a play within a play, it can get quite confusing at first, because the actors are playing two roles: their characters, and the characters their characters are playing. We get two plots, the story of Noises Off and Nothing On.
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