Noises Off by Michael Frayn

Two years ago, there was all manner of "Noises Off", on and round the Onassis Stegi stage. And, since we cannot attend theater shows on stage for now, we go backstage: to the place where every attempt at rationality backfires. Where dark instincts emerge from the shadows and roles—like zombies—devour the actors. “That's what it's all about, doors and sardines. Getting on, getting off. Getting the sardines on, getting the sardines off. That's farce. That's—that's the theatre. That’s life”. Michael Frayn’s Noises Off (1982) the play which has won the Olivier, London Evening Standard, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards is staged here by a superb ensemble cast (Konstantinos Avarikiotis, Aris Balis, Michalis Kimonas, Giannis Klinis, Sofia Kokkali, Emily Koliandri, Ektoras Lygizos, Anna Mascha, Areti Seidaridou). Ektoras Lygizos directs and plays the director in the classic British farce which sits us backstage in a theatre and invites us to ponder on this: “What happens when everything goes wrong?”