Here’s what you need to know

We’ll get started at 7:00 PM in the Peggy Dow Performance Center

This event is FREE

No experience necessary

Fun and informal: You can sit and listen or participate as much as you want

We will read “Noises Off,” led by Bob Borwick. More information about the play and table reads below.

About the Work

Called “the funniest farce ever written,” Noises Off presents a manic menagerie of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop called Nothing’s On. Slamming doors, on and offstage intrigue, and an errant herring all figure in the plot of this hilarious, high-energy comedy. Mixing mockery and homage, Frayn heaps a hilarious melée of stock characters and situations into his side-splitting play-within-a-play.

Noises Off premiered at The Savoy Theatre in London’s West End on February 23, 1982. The play made its Broadway premiere at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre on December 11, 1983. Directed by Michael Blakemore, the Broadway production featured Victor Garber, Dorothy Loudon, Brian Murray, Linda Thorson, Paxton Whitehead, Deborah Rush, Jim Piddock, Douglas Seale and Amy Wright. Noises Off returned to Broadway twice, in 2001 and 2016.

About Table Reads

Athens Community Theatre hosts several opportunities to read plays and musicals for fun each season. Participation in a table read is a great way to “dip a toe in” to see what working with ACT is like. The play is read casually: you can let us know if you want to participate or just listen in. And you can change your mind at any time.