<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpa05b6d84yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">NOISES OFF</span></i></b></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">by Michael Frayn</span></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">Produced by Voice Theatre</span></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.voicetheatre.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">www.voicetheatre.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"></span></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">CONTRACT:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Equity: Special Appearance Contract, Non-Equity Stipend: $1,500. Accommodation and travel provided for all actors who live more than 50 miles away.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">Auditions by appointment only. Sides will be sent via email.</span></b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"></span><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Roboto Condensed; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: Roboto Condensed; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">DATES:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">KINGSTON, NY CASTING: 3/1 & 3/8 Bethany Hall, 272 Wall St. Kingston.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">NYC CASTING, 2/26, 2/27, 3/4, 3/11 Theater Lab: 357 West 36<sup>th</sup> St, 3<sup>rd</sup> floor (between 8<sup>th</sup>-9<sup>th</sup> Ave.)</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">DAYTIME Rehearsals:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> June 10 - July 9, 2025</span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto Condensed; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="position: relative; z-index: 251659264;"><span style="width: 3px; min-height: 3px;"><img width="3" height="3" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"></span></span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Performances:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> July 10 – July 27, 2025.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Thursday - Saturday @ 7pm with 3 Sunday matinees @ 2pm + one extra Sat. matinee @ 2pm on July 26<sup>th</sup>. </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Rehearsal and performances</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> take place in Uptown Kingston, at Bethany Hall, 272 Wall St., Kingston, NY. <b>Rehearsals will take place during the day.</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Roboto Condensed; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">SUBMISSIONS:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Email picture/resumé to </span><a href="mailto:Rdapiran.vt@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">Rdapiran.vt@gmail.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> Put in subject: “NOISES OFF AUDITIONS”. </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">PERSONNEL:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Shauna Kanter<br>ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Roger Dapiran</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">COMPANY ADMINISTRATOR: John Gazzale</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">DIRECTOR: Shauna Kanter</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">LIGHTING DESIGNER: TBA</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">COSTUME DESIGNER: Charlie Barnett III</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">SET DESIGNER: TBA</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">SOUND DESIGNER: David Pinkard</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Harmony Waters</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">SM: Talene Pogarian</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">ASM’S: TBA</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">AVAILABLE ROLES:</span></b><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(80, 21, 73);"></span></b></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 1.2pt 55.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Lloyd Dallas</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">: 40-50. The director of a play-within-the-play, <i>Nothing On</i>. Temperamental, exacting and sarcastic. Can be a bit pompous, forceful and overly confident. A bit full of himself. Impatient. Read English at Cambridge and stagecraft at the local benefits office. He directed a highly successful season for the National Theatre of Sri Lanka. Upper-class English accent. Involved with both Brooke and Poppy.</span></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 1.2pt 55.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Dotty Otley:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> 40-55. A middle-aged television star that anyone under the age of 30 has no idea who she is. Dotty is not only the top-billed star of the play- within-the-play <i>Nothing On</i> but also one of the play's principal investors. Dating the much younger Garry. Comes from a lower middle-class background. Scattered, emotionally unbalanced, has memory issues and is clinging to the last vestige of her glorious mostly forgotten television past. Learned how to rid herself of her working-class Northern English accent at a cheesy drama school all too many years ago. She has been seen in 320 episodes of TV’s <i>On The Zebras. </i>Her first appearance was in a school play of<i> Henry IV Part I</i> as the old-bag lady, Mrs. Duckett. Dotty also plays Mrs. Clackett in <i>Nothing On</i> where she is the Cockney housekeeper for the Brents' home. A hospitable, though slow-witted and slow-moving, chatterbox with an attitude.</span></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 1.2pt 55.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Garry Lejeune</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">: 28-38. Seeking a physically expressive actor. Garry is the leading man in <i>Nothing On</i>, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">the play-within-the-play.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> Garry is best known for his role in <i>Cornetto</i> a daytime soap where he plays the ice cream salesman. Dating Dotty and prone to outbursts of jealousy. RP accent. In <i>Nothing On</i> Garry plays </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Roger Tramplemain an estate agent looking to let Flavia's and Philip's house. Roger is more interested in bedding Vicki than selling the house.</span></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 1.2pt 55.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Brooke Ashton:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> 20-30. Is probably best known as the girl wearing practically nothing but ‘good honest froth’ in the Hauptbahnhobrau lager commercial. Her television appearances include the Girl in Massage Parlor in <i>On Probation</i> and her film appearance includes the Girl in Room 312 in <i>The Girl in Room 14</i>. She is an inexperienced actress. She is dating Lloyd the director. Midlands British accent. In<i> Nothing On </i>Brooke plays Vicki, a girl Roger is attempting to seduce (or perhaps a girl trying to seduce Roger). She too isn’t too bright and works for Inland Revenue, the tax office.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"></span></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 1.2pt 55.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Frederick (Freddie), Fellowes:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> 30-45. An actor. Frail, overly intellectual in all the wrong moments, sensitive. Has a serious fear of violence and blood, both of which give him nosebleeds. Well-meaning, but lacks confidence and is rather dim-witted. Freddie is best known for many popular television series such as; <i>Calling Casualty</i>, <i>Cardiac Arrest!</i> and <i>Out-Patients</i> and <i>In-Patients</i>. In <i>Nothing On </i>Frederick plays Philip Brent, a playwright who lives in Spain with his wife Flavia to avoid paying taxes. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">Not the most practical of characters. Wrapped in a bedsheet, Frederick also plays the Sheikh in <i>Nothing On.</i></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"></span></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 1.2pt 55.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Belinda Blair:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> 25-35. Cheerful, sensible and generous, a reliable actress and the company's de facto peacemaker. Something of a gossip. She knows everything about everyone in the company. Has a rather protective, motherly attitude. Belinda has been in the stage since the age of four in <i>Sindbad The Sailor</i> as one of Miss Toni Tanner’s Ten Tapping Tots. Since then, she has danced her way around the country in shows like <i>Here Come Les Girls, Who’s Been Sleeping in my Bed</i> and<i> Zippedy-Dooda!</i> British accent. In <i>Nothing On </i>Belinda plays Flavia Brent, Philip Brent's wife. She is dependable, though not one for household duties.</span></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 1.2pt 55.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Selsdon Mowbray:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> 60+ A half-deaf "pro" with a long, storied career and a drinking problem. If he is not in your sight, it probably means he’s hitting the bottle-again. First trod the boards at the age of 12 playing Lucius in a touring production of Julius Ceasar, with his father the great Chelmsford Mowbray in the lead. He claims to have toured the country with every company that has played Shakespeare in the last half century. Upper class British accent.<i> </i>In <i>Nothing On,</i> Selsden plays the Burglar, an older Cockney, breaking into the Brents' house.</span></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 1.2pt 55.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Poppy Norton-Taylor:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> 22-25. Assistant Stage Manager and understudy to the female roles. Emotional, skittish and over-sensitive. Has a thing for Lloyd, the director. This is Poppy’s first job and, by act two, Poppy is pregnant with Lloyd's baby. Upper class British accent.</span></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 1.2pt 55.2pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Symbol; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">·<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span></span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Tim Allgood:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> 25-45. Tim is over worked and over-burdened. He must understudy the men’s roles, fix the set and run Lloyd's errands on top of his usual duties. Not the brightest blub on the block.</span></p><p style="margin: 6pt 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">SYNOPSIS:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"></span></p><p style="margin: 6pt 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Each of the three acts of <i>Noises Off</i> contains a performance of the first act of the play-with-in-the-play</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"> </span><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">Nothing On</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">, </span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">a farce in which girls run about in their underwear, men drop their trousers, and doors continually open and shut. <i>Nothing On </i>is set in a 16th-century</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"> posset mill </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">modernized by the current owners and available to let while they are abroad evading taxes.</span></p><p style="margin: 6pt 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Act One</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> is set at the tech rehearsal at the Grand Theatre in Weston-Super-Mare, UK. It’s midnight, before the first performance and the cast is hopelessly under-rehearsed and struggling with entrances and exits, missed cues and lines, and bothersome props, including several plates of sardines.</span></p><p style="margin: 6pt 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Act Two</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> takes place during a Wednesday matinée one month later, at the Theatre Royal in Ashton-under-Lyne, UK. The play is seen from backstage simultaneously to ACT I taking place UPSTAGE. Company relationships have deteriorated. Romantic rivalries, lovers' tiffs and personal quarrels lead to offstage shenanigans, onstage bedlam and the occasional attack with a fire axe.</span></p><p style="margin: 6pt 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Act Three</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> takes place during ACT I and near the end of the ten-week tour, at the Municipal Theatre in Stockton-on-Tees, UK. Relationships between the cast have soured considerably, the set is breaking down and props are winding up in the wrong hands. The actors remain determined to cover up the mounting chaos, but it is not long before the plot has to be abandoned entirely and the characters in Nothing On are obliged to take a lead in ad-libbing towards some sort of end.</span></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(146, 208, 80); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">VOICE THEATRE BRIEF HISTORY:</span></b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(146, 208, 80);"></span></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">Started in Paris in 1988 with initial funding from the French Government, Voice Theatre moved to New York City in 1989. Since then, we have produced more than 40 full-scale productions, from original plays such as "Birds on a Wire" (four stars at the Edinburgh Festival), to American classics, Off-Broadway shows, Spring Reading Series, 10-Minute Play Festivals, and many more activities in the United States, Germany, France, Britain and the Middle East. Since 2003, we have led free, in-school workshops in New York City and Upstate, NY. We also offer adult classes and summer youth workshops. Our home is now Bethany Hall in Kingston, NY.</span></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"> </span></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">Voice Theatre’s first production in Paris was “Family Cycles”, a theatre piece for 30 actors. The following year, at La MAMA in New York City, Voice Theatre produced "Pushing Through" (University of Nebraska Press), a music theatre piece performed by Palestinian and Israeli women.</span></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"> </span></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">Off-Broadway productions; “Retzach”, 59E59 Theatres, “Our Country’s Good”, CSV Cultural Center, “The Laramie Project” at the Barrow Group Theater. Featured on NPR’s “Weekend Edition” and the New York Times, London Times, Daily Telegraph, and The Washington Post, among many others.</span></p><p class="ydpa9cfa9f7MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </p></div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydpa05b6d84signature"><div style="font-family:old times, serif;font-size:16px;"><font color="#4c76a2" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><font size="3" style="font-weight:bold;font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span">Shauna Kanter <br></font></font><div><font color="#4c76a2" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><font size="3" style="font-weight:bold;font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span">Artistic Director, </span></font></font></div><div><font color="#4c76a2" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><font size="3" style="font-weight:bold;font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span">Voice Theatre </span></font></font></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;font-weight:bold;font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="color:rgb(76, 118, 162);" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span">(office) 845 679 0154 (cell) 917 494 6273</span><span style="color:rgb(76, 118, 162);" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><br></span></span></span></span><div><b><a href="http://www.voicetheatre.org" style="font-size:medium;font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.voicetheatre.org</a></b></div><div><font color="#4c76a2" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><b style="font-size:medium;font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/voicetheatre.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook.com/Voicetheatre.org</a></b></font></div><div><br></div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;font-style:italic;color:rgb(76, 118, 162);" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:'American Typewriter';" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><b>Giving voice to </b></span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;font-style:italic;color:rgb(76, 118, 162);" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:'American Typewriter';" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><b>extraordinary theatre</b></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>