2024-01-11 17:27:15
Talking about a ‘workhorse’ seems even simplistic, one could coin the term ‘thoroughbred battlehorse’ for this ‘Noises Offstage’ which has now reached its 40th anniversary in Italy. The opera between vaudeville and brilliant comedy, written by Michael Frayn, is back on stage at the Vittoria theater in Rome, where it will remain on the bill until January 21st, again with the original direction signed by the late Attilio Corsini, starring the company Attori & Technicians led by Viviana Toniolo, for the scenes designed by Bruno Garofalo and the music composed by Arturo Annecchino.
Three acts that can also be read as a repeated single act, seen first during rehearsals, then behind the scenes and finally on stage, for continually surprising points of view and setbacks to be enjoyed down to the smallest details. At the center is the attempt by a shabby theater company to represent a comedy with very tight rhythms, a clockwork mechanism… but unfortunately the actors all appear with empty batteries and the times of entrances and exits, jokes and silences they struggle to coincide and fit together as the author and director would dictate, creating an inevitable comic effect.
“A show within a show, a comedy within a comedy – it is underlined in the director’s notes – this work is a masterpiece of comedy. Tight rhythms, lightning-fast jokes that follow the spectator in the three acts he witnesses, between misadventures and embarrassments, jealousies and betrayals , which surface in front of the audience and behind the scenes”, to the sometimes truly uncontainable hilarity of the audience.
(by Enzo Bonaiuto)
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