On-stage, off-stage - it's all just going wrong...
Follow a doomed theatre company as they desperately struggle to keep their show together as everything around them falls apart. The set won’t work, the cast can’t remember their lines, and company rifts are growing. Oh – and sardines… so many sardines.
From a frantic last-minute rehearsal, to a disastrously silent performance, all culminating in a spectacularly calamitous final show, it’s all just going wrong – but the show must go on!
Written by the multi-award-winning British novelist and playwright Michael Frayn, this is a new production of one of the greatest comedies ever written.
Noises Off runs at the New Wolsey Theatre from Thu 1 – Sat 24 May, with Audio Described, Captioned, BSL Interpreted and Relaxed/Dementia-friendly performances available.
Age guidance: 12+.
There will be a post show talk with the cast after the show on Thursday 15th May.
Click below to watch the British Sign Language flyer for Noises Off.
Cast
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Hisham Abdel Razek
Frederick Fellowes
Hisham Abdel Razek
Frederick Fellowes
Hisham holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering and a Theatre Minor from the American University in Cairo, and an MFA in Acting from the Guildford School of Acting.
Productions whilst training include: Treasure Island, 13, Electra, Waiting for Godot, Fuddy Meers and Spring Awakening.
His work in Theatre includes: Mnemonic (Complicité, National Theatre); and The Play That Goes Wrong (Mischief, West End).
He most recently appeared in the first season of The Agency (Paramount+, Showtime).
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Ezra Alexander
Tim Allgood
Ezra Alexander
Tim Allgood
Ezra is an actor, voiceover artist, film and theatre maker, born and based in North London, who graduated with First Class Honours from the Acting BA (Hons) course at Rose Bruford in 2023. Comedy is a long-time love of Ezra’s. He has been acting in and making homemade short films and comedy sketches since the age of 12. He has also cofounded his own independent film production company, Cardboard House, to create original comedy shorts.
His theatre credits include: That F*cking Seagull (This is Not a Test Theatre, Shift+Space); Soho Theatre Sketch Comedy Labs and Nora: A Doll’s House.
His film credits include: Villa Rose Mansion; and The Last Time I Saw You.
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Clare-Louise English
Belinda Blair
Clare-Louise English
Belinda Blair
Clare-Louise trained at RADA on the MA Theatre Lab course, graduating in 2012.
Since then she has worked as an actor, theatre maker and filmmaker and is co-founder of award-winning production company, Hot Coals Productions.
Clare’s recent on-screen acting credits include: Father Brown, Then Barbara Met Alan (BBC); The Accident (Channel 4).
Her theatre credits include: Nancy in Oliver Twist (Leeds Playhouse,Ramps on the Moon); One Under (Graeae Theatre, UK tour); Earshot (Hot Coals Productions, UK tour); Mirror Mirror (Red Earth, UK tour); Something Else (Deafinitely Theatre, UK tour).
More recently, she has moved into directing for screen, with her latest film, Where The Light Gets In available on Sky, NOW and LumoTV.
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Yani Green
Understudy
Yani Green
Understudy
Yani Green is an actor and drama facilitator. He specialises in working alongside young people with a focus on improvisation and voice.
Theatre credits include: Hare and Tortoise (New Wolsey Theatre); No More Numbers (Mercury Theatre); and 5 Little Ducks (Spinning Wheel Theatre).
He was also the assistant director for the New Wolsey Theatre’s Youth Theatre production of A Misdummer Nights Dream.
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Ailsa Joy
Brooke Ashton
Ailsa Joy
Brooke Ashton
Ailsa Joy trained at RADA.
Her theatre credits include: As You Like It, Boatman Town, Antigone (Creation Theatre); Top Girls (Liverpool Everyman); Love and Other Acts of Violence (Donmar Warehouse); Bad Jews (West End + UK tour); Jack and the Beanstalk (Theatre Chipping Norton); The Three Musketeers, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Iris Theatre); Not Quite Jerusalem (Finborough); Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Guildford Shakespeare Company); TimePlays (Hampton Court Palace); Berenice (The Space); The Wind in the Willows (Polka Theatre); Fast Track, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, Peer Gynt (The North Wall, Oxford); Much Ado About Nothing, Arabian Nights, Pride and Prejudice (The Drill Hall); The Siren’s Call (Watermill Theatre).
TV credits include: Plebs (ITV2); The Royals (E! Entertainment)
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George Kemp
Garry Lejeune
George Kemp
Garry Lejeune
George trained at LAMDA.
George’s theatre credits include: Jack Absolute Flies Again (National Theatre); The Time Machine: A Comedy (UK Tour); Diary of a Somebody (Seven Dials Playhouse); Spike (Watermill); The Witchfinder’s Sister (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); The Game of Love & Chance (Arcola); One Man, Two Guvnors (Derby/Queen’s Theatre); The Wipers Times (Arts Theatre, West End and UK Tour), Rope (Queen’s Theatre) and Emma (UK Tour).
His television credits include Blood of My Blood (Sony/Lionsgate); Bridgerton (Netflix); Ten Percent (Amazon); and The Trial of Christine Keeler (BBC).
His radio credits include: The Nazis: Rise to Power (BBC).
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Harry Long
Lloyd Dallas
Harry Long
Lloyd Dallas
Theatre credits include: Looking Good Dead (Josh Andrews Productions); The Crucible, North&South and Blithe Spirit (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); I’m Not Running (National Theatre); The Big Corner, The Winters Tale, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Secret Garden, An Enemy of the People, The Family Way and Private Lives (Octagon Theatre, Bolton); This Land (Salisbury Playhouse); Holy Mackerel (Eastern Angles); Fatal Attraction (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); The Story Giant, Aisles Apart, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Smugglers (Shanty Theatre); Words (Theatr Clwyd); An Inspector Calls (English Theatre, Frankfurt); The Importance of Being Earnest (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Broadway Theatre); The Little Dressmaker (Union Theatre); and Hamlet (RSC).
Television credits include: You, and Captive (Netflix); Queenie, and Hollyoaks (Channel 4); Beyond Paradise, Gentleman Jack, Doctors, Casualty, Father Brown, The Hunt for Tony Blair, Lark Rise to Candleford and One Summer (BBC); Unforgotten, Breathtaking, Protection, Vera, Emmerdale, The Suspect, and Doc Martin (ITV); Cell 8 (FremantleMedia).
Film credits include: Boxing Day (Boxing Day Productions Ltd); A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life (Forward Motion Pictures); and Gold (Bollywood feature – Eros International).
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Hilary Maclean
Dotty Otley
Hilary Maclean
Dotty Otley
Recent Theatre includes: Armour: A History of the Scottish Bard (Oran Mor/Traverse); Romeo and Juliet (AFTLS, US Tour); Sunshine on Leith (UK Tour); The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatr Clwyd); The Autumn Garden (Jermyn Street Theatre); Dirty Dancing (Aldwych Theatre); Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Poor Superman (Manchester Royal Exchange).
Recent Television includes: Queenie (Channel 4); Annika (Alibi TV); Outlander (Starz); Torchwood, Lip Service, Dangerfield, Doctors, Monarch of the Glen, Casualty, Holby City, and The Creatives (BBC); Coronation Street, Arthur and George, Making Waves, Alibi, Taggart, Doctor Finlay, and The Bill (ITV).
Voice work includes voicing ‘Venue’in the animation series Sarah and Duck for CBeebies, many audiobooks and radio plays, and series, including Secrets and Lattes, Alone and For the Love of Leo (BBC Radio); and The Harrowing (Storyglass).
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Mollie Manning
Understudy
Mollie Manning
Understudy
Mollie graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Credits whilst training include: DNA (New Wolsey Theatre Company); Richard II, The Way of the World, and The Seagull (Central School of Speech and Drama); Be My Baby, How to Disappear Completely and Never be Found, and Who Invented the Sausage? (New Wolsey Young Company).
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Russell Richardson
Selsdon Mowbray
Russell Richardson
Selsdon Mowbray
Russell trained at the East 15 Acting School in London and has been working professionally as an actor for over 30 years.
Russell’s theatre credits include: Brassed Off (Octagon Bolton, Stephen Joseph Theatre, TBTL Keswick); The Book of Will (Shakespeare North Playhouse, Octagon); Canterbury Tales, and The Secret Garden (Theatre by the Lake Keswick); To Have To Shoot Irishmen (Liverpool Everyman); Chip Shop Chips (Box of Tricks Theatre Co.); The Winter’s Tale, and An August Bank Holiday Lark (Northern Broadsides); The Hobbit, Pinocchio, and Oliver Twist (Dukes Playhouse Lancaster); Hindle Wakes, A View From The Bridge, Romeo and Juliet, Comedians, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Ghosts (Bolton Octagon); Our Day Out, and Deathtrap (Oldham Coliseum); Cinderella, and The Glee Club (CAST Doncaster); The Enough Project (DepArts/Lowry Theatre); The Wind In The Willows (Leeds Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing, and Hercules (Chester Performs); Cinderella (Victoria Theatre Halifax); Waiting For Godot (Garrick Theatre Lichfield); Singin’ In The Rain (London Palladium); Bouncers (Crescent Theatre, Birmingham); Aladdin, Babes In The Wood (Gracie Fields Theatre Rochdale); Mr Cinders (Kings Head Theatre London); Pied Piper (Sherman Theatre Cardiff); Babes In Arms, Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale (Regents Park Open Air Theatre); and The Miracle Tour (Everyman Theatre Cheltenham).
His film credits include: Bolan’s Shoes, Me, Myself & Di, Miss Willoughby and the Haunted Bookshop, The Siege, Scent (Screen Yorkshire – BAFTA nominated), Doggin’ Around.
His television credits include: Dodger; Emmerdale; Coronation Street, Doctors, Two Pints of Lager & a Packet of Crisps, Brookside, Holby City, Family Affairs, Murder In Mind, Dalziel & Pascoe, Hollyoaks, Bugs, Drop The Dead Donkey, Pork Pie, London’s Burning, The Bill and Poirot.
His radio credits include: Brief Lives (2 series), Homeowners, Things Might Change or Cease, The Desk, The Thank-You Present, Blood in the Mountain, Crimes of Mancunia, The End of the World and Condurrow, all for the BBC.
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Gemma Salter
Poppy Norton-Taylor
Gemma Salter
Poppy Norton-Taylor
Gemma grew up in Essex, before heading to London to study Acting at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. Gemma left with a BA Hons in Acting and the Laurence Olivier Award for most promising actress.
Theatre credits include: Made in Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre); One Man Two Guvnors (Theatre Royal, Haymarket); Dreamboats and Petticoats (Playhouse Theatre); Cable Street (Southwark Playhouse); Killing Jack, and Oh What a Lovely War (Queens Theatre Hornchurch); Cruel Intentions The Musical (Bill Kenwright for Edinburgh Fringe); and Come Dancing (Theatre Royal, Stratford East).
TV credits include: Rock and Chips, Call the Midwife, Doctors, Holby City, and Sense and Sensibility (BBC).
Creative Team
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Helen Atkinson
Sound Designer
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Charlie Flynn
Assistant Director
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KJ
Lighting Designer
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Haruka Kuroda
Fight, Movement & Intimacy Director
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Douglas Rintoul
Director
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Clio Van Aerde
Set & Costume Designer