Theatre Calgary is opening its 2019-20 season with Noises Off, an established British comedy it is hoping will have theatregoers laughing from start to finish.
A play about a play, Noises Off takes the audience through three different stages of the fictional production of “Nothing On.”
“It doesn’t start well and it just keeps getting worse and worse and worse, and things fall apart and madness and hilarity ensue,” added Noises Off director Mark Bellamy.
Listening to “Nothing On” fictional director Goutsis and real Noises Off director Bellamy banter back and forth about the production got a little confusing at times — even for the cast.
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“Christian would stop the show and then I would stop Christian, so it was just like, ‘Who are we listening to?'” laughed Bellamy at the confusion of calling scenes during the first few rehearsals.
“It became sort of like Inception. There were so many layers upon layers of this crazy world when you’re rehearsing a play that’s about rehearsing a play,” said Bellamy, comparing rehearsals to the 2010 science fiction feature film.
“It ends up looking seamless and looking like a lot of fun but in the rehearsal process and sort of getting the timing of everything, as Mark said, all the doors and the physical comedy that needs to happen takes a tremendous amount of detailed rehearsal and repetition,” Goutsis said.
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