Alex McCubbin is playing Lloyd Dallas, the director of the play-within-the-play in Noises Off. He claims that he only agreed to be assistant director for Love's Labour's Lost...And Won last summer as a way of building up useful knowledge to help him audition for and play this character. He was diplomatically silent as to how much material he gathered. He did say he can sympathise with Lloyd's frustration when actors blame their mistakes on other people. Equally as an experienced stage manager and actor he can see what a monster Lloyd is putting his personal agenda ahead of the production (not that anything like that ever happens at Progress of course!)
Noises Off is a very fast farce with lots of doors opening and closing and people coming in and out in quick secession. Watching part of rehearsal I was amazed at how the actors could remember where they were supposed to be and what they were supposed to be doing. Alex said that it reminded him of his time on a performing arts course when he had to learn dance moves.
Noises off starts on Thursday and tickets are selling fast on popular nights. Don't forget we now have our own on-line booking system with a lower booking fee so it is worth booking in advance to make sure of seeing this very funny show, Click here to book.
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