[BHS etree] DRAMA: BHS Fall Play: "Noises Off" Dec. 7, 8, 14, 15 at 8 PM

[bhs at idiom.com]

Do not reply to etree, contact: Jordan Winer of BHS Drama Dept.
at (510) 332-1931.


BHS DRAMA DEPT. and SHIFT THEATRE present NOISES OFF
by Michael Frayn.

"A frisky, freewheeling sex comedy about actors
in a frisky, freewheeling sex comedy!"-USA Today. 

"The funniest farce ever written ..."-New York Post. 

A three-act play-within-a-play.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7 & 8, and 14 & 15, 2007 at 8 PM.
Tickets at door: General $12 and Students/Seniors/Teachers $6.
Florence Schwimley Little Theater on BHS campus at Allston Way
(Wheelchair Accessible).

ENSEMBLE CAST includes Eric Chiang, Sonia Decker, Kelly Friedman,
Anne Kobori, Nico Kiefer, Mark Sorensen, Elena Wagoner, Peter Walton,
and Eli Wirtschafter.  NOISES OFF is directed by BHS senior and Shift
Theatre founder, Molly Bell.

PLOT: The NOISES OFF curtain rises at the dress rehearsal of a play
that is far from performance ready. The audience is introduced to the
actors' eccentric personalities that exacerbate the company's frantic,
last-minute preparations.  In Act Two - one month later - we see how
love triangles have formed between members of the cast and crew;
and deception and confusion are added to the already troubled show.
In Act Three, the show builds to its breathless, unavoidable conclusion.

SET: The NOISES OFF set is two stories, eight doors, three stairwells,
one plate glass window -- on wheels.  This is the largest, most complex
stage set ever constructed at BHS by technical theater students
(AKA "Techies").