Noises Off review " David Thacker's 'vertiginous' farewell treat
The Octagon, BoltonThe Octagon's artistic director says goodbye with a fine production of Michael Frayn's side-splitting farce-within-a-farceIn Russia in 1906, Vsevolod Meyerhold directed Alexander Blok's play Balaganchik (sometimes translated as "Farce"). "Respectable citizens" let out "whistles and roars of anger" after being confronted with the workings of the stage illusion: backstage machinery on view; "the Auth…
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