Noises Off

Noises Off is a 1982 play by Michael Frayn. The idea for it was born in 1970, when Frayn was standing in the wings watching a performance of Chinamen, a farce that he had written for Lynn Redgrave. According to the playwright, "It was funnier from behind than in front and I thought that one day I must write a farce from behind."
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Noises Off is a 1992 comedy film about a motley and disorganized theatre company and their misadventures. It is based on the play Noises Off by Michael Frayn. It utilizes the play-within-a-play (or in this case play-within-a-film) format, with the play being a pastiche of the farce genre, but the movie being a farce itself. We see the play several times, and comedy emerges from the subtle variations in the performance each time as off-stage chaos affects on-stage performance.
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