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| (From left) Lloyd Dallas, played by William Toth, Selsdon Mowbray, played by Kenneth Taylor, and Tim Allgood, played by Matthew Johnston, appear on stage in the same costume during the dress rehearsal of "Noises Off" at Owens Center for Fine and Performing Arts. (Photo: Shane Hughes/Sentinel-Tribune) |
In the case of his play that "noise" is the sound of cast and crew of the play "Nothing On" coming apart at the seams. Their lives are even more troubled and twisted, and far more comic, than the characters in the play they are staging.
The result is a farce full of flops and malapropism, not to mention those key elements of theater and life, at least according to the director of the play within a play, "sardines and doors."
Audiences will get plenty of both as "Noises Off!" opens today at 7:30 p.m. at the Owens Community College's Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Fine and Performing Arts, off Oregon Road in Perrysburg Township. The show continues Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. and next weekend April 19 and 20 at 7:30 p.m. and April 21 at 3 p.m. Tickets are $12 and $8 for Owens faculty, students and alumni. Call (567) 661-2787.