Noises Off

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Acting, Noël Coward once said, consists of knowing your lines and not bumping into the furniture. The actors in Noises Off, now in a welcome revival at the Brooks Atkinson, do bump into the furniture. They also hurl themselves down stairs, smack into scenery, strangle on telephone wires, have axes repeatedly hurled at them, and dodge flying sardines. Michael Frayn's definitive stage farce is legendary among show folk for the injuries its casts must sustain; its long Broadway run in the 1980s was a merry treadmill of twisted ankles and dislocated vertebrae, and already the members of the new company have skinned and bruised themselves aplenty. They're as tough as quarterbacks.

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