April Brings the Hilarious Comedy Noises Off to the GCC Stage!
March 31, 2009
Media Contacts:
Suzanne Higgins
suzanne.higgins@gcmail.maricopa.edu 623.845.3808
Patricia Rhodes Vogel
pr.vogel@gcmail.maricopa.edu 623.845.3014
Event Contact:
David Seitz
david.seitz@gcmail.maricopa.edu 623.845.3385
Despite the current state of the world and the economy, Glendale Community College theater students will provide welcome comic relief to the community with Noises Off, a farce in three acts. It will be performed in the GCC Performing Arts Center (PAC) at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 17-18, and Thursday through Saturday, April 23-25. A matinée will be performed at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 19.
The play recounts the misadventures of a troupe of fifth-rate actors as they perform a sex farce titled Nothing On during a fleabag provincial tour. The plot of Nothing On involves a ditzy maid in an English country house, a wayward plate of sardines, an illicit couple dodging the tax man, a sheik and a drunken burglar. Doors slam and trousers drop with dizzying abandon.
In theater language, "noises off" refers to commotion in the wings. The noises off in this play are the backstage yelps and battle cries of the actors, who are entangled in a sex farce of their own.
As the melee of actors stumble through their lines, they are tossed about by a whirlwind of calamities—from missing contact lenses and misplaced sardines to philandering lovers and a lethally swinging ax. They collide catastrophically in a real-life sex farce that parallels the play they're appearing in...till at last, according to the script "in open revolt against each other and their production—the actors rewrite and sabotage every line in their script, wrestle their recalcitrant props to the ground and even contend with an understudy who suddenly assumes the role in mid-performance."
Tickets are $5 for students and seniors 55+ with appropriate ID, and $8 for general admission. Due to a sprinkling of adult language, Noises Off is not recommended for children under 13. GCC is located at 59th and Olive Avenues in Glendale. Parking is free. The two-story PAC is in the northeast quadrant of the GCC campus. Enter at the traffic light at Vogel Avenue off 59th Avenue, and the PAC will be on your left. Visit www.gccaz.edu/map for a map of the campus.
Noises Off Cast. Standing, l to r: Rachel Maish, Markus Maes, Vaneska Da Silva, Mason Manna, Areli Chávez, Kacie Crenshaw, Adam Kurec and Stephen Bond. Kneeling in front, Austin Blindheim.
