Woo-hoo, road trip!
I'd never been to Ozark Actors Theatre, now celebrating its 25th anniversary season, and I'm glad I made the trip. They're located in Rolla Missouri, just about an hour and a half away from St. Louis city. The Cedar Street Playhouse, originally a church, is a nice little theatre space with about 170 seats and a great brew house restaurant a few blocks away, but I'll get to that later.
Michael Frayn's Noises Off had its origins when he realized that watching a play from backstage could be way more entertaining than watching it as an audience member. The resulting one-act play, Exits, was later expanded into the three-act Noises Off, a play that many consider to be the cleverest farce of the twentieth century. The title takes its name from a stage direction indicating sounds made offstage intended for the ears of the audience. <-- I love that...
I'd never been to Ozark Actors Theatre, now celebrating its 25th anniversary season, and I'm glad I made the trip. They're located in Rolla Missouri, just about an hour and a half away from St. Louis city. The Cedar Street Playhouse, originally a church, is a nice little theatre space with about 170 seats and a great brew house restaurant a few blocks away, but I'll get to that later.
Michael Frayn's Noises Off had its origins when he realized that watching a play from backstage could be way more entertaining than watching it as an audience member. The resulting one-act play, Exits, was later expanded into the three-act Noises Off, a play that many consider to be the cleverest farce of the twentieth century. The title takes its name from a stage direction indicating sounds made offstage intended for the ears of the audience. <-- I love that...
