噪音远去 (1977)

《糊涂戏班》（英语：Noises Off）是英国当代著名剧作家及小说家迈克尔·弗莱恩所写的三幕闹剧作品。该剧的创作灵感源于《我们中的两个》（1970）的最后一幕闹剧，使用了戏中戏的表现手法，被称为英国战后最成功的喜剧，使弗莱恩再次获得劳伦斯·奥利佛最佳喜剧奖和标准晚报戏剧奖。剧名是指噪音从剧场舞台后面的远处传来。

剧情

讲述的是一个戏班上演戏剧《一丝不挂》（Nothing On）的故事。

第一幕

正常舞台布景，第一次暨最后一次彩排，准备当晚就要首演的十周巡回演出，场面一片混乱。

第二幕

舞台布景翻转180度，巡演一个月之后的某次正式演出，后台不断发生意外，演出无法正常进行。

第三幕

舞台布景翻转回来，巡演快结束时的某次正式演出，台前依然混乱，演员纷纷试图挽救演出。

角色

《糊涂戏班》包含两组三角恋，第一组是一男两女（Lloyd Dallas、Brooke Ashton和Poppy Norton-Taylor），第二组是一女两男（Dotty Otley、Garry Lejeune和Frederick Fellowes）。

Noises Off is a 1982 farce by the English playwright Michael Frayn.

Frayn conceived the idea in 1970 while watching from the wings a performance of The Two of Us, a farce that he had written for Lynn Redgrave. He said, "It was funnier from behind than in front, and I thought that one day I must write a farce from behind." The prototype, a short-lived one-act play called Exits, was written and performed in 1977. At the request of his associate, Michael Codron, Frayn expanded this into what would become Noises Off.

It takes its title from the theatrical stage direction indicating sounds coming from offstage.

Characters of Noises Off

Lloyd Dallas: The director of a play-within-the-play, Nothing On. Temperamental, exacting and sarcastic. Involved with both Brooke and Poppy.

Dotty Otley: A middle-aged television star who is not only the top-billed star but also one of the play's principal investors. Dating the much younger Garry.

Garry Lejeune: The play's leading man, a solid actor who is completely incapable of finishing a sentence unless it is dialogue. Constantly stutters and ends sentences with "you know..." Dating Dotty and prone to jealousy.

Brooke Ashton: A young, inexperienced actress from London. She pays no attention to others, either in performance or backstage, and persists in her role as scripted regardless of any interruption or mayhem. She is always losing her contact lenses, without which she is blind. Part of the Lloyd–Poppy–Brooke love triangle.

Frederick (Freddie) Fellowes: Has a serious fear of violence and blood, both of which give him nosebleeds. Well-meaning, but lacks confidence and is rather dim-witted.

Belinda Blair: Cheerful and sensible, a reliable actress and the company's de facto peacemaker. Something of a gossip, and a bit two-faced. Has a rather protective attitude towards Freddie.

Selsdon Mowbray: An elderly, half-deaf "pro" with a long, storied career and a drinking problem. If he is not in sight while rehearsing, the stage crew must find him before he finds anything alcoholic.

Poppy Norton-Taylor: Assistant Stage Manager and understudy to the female roles. Emotional, skittish and over-sensitive. Part of the Lloyd-Poppy-Brooke love triangle and, by act two, pregnant with Lloyd's baby.

Tim Allgood: The over-worked and easily flustered Stage Manager, who must understudy, fix the set and run Lloyd's errands on top of his usual duties.

Characters of the play-within-the-play, Nothing On

Mrs. Clackett (Dotty): The Cockney housekeeper for the Brents' home. A hospitable, though slow-witted and slow-moving, chatterbox.

Roger Tramplemain (Garry): An estate agent looking to let Flavia's and Philip's house.

Vicki (Brooke): A girl Roger is attempting to seduce (or perhaps a girl trying to seduce Roger). Works for the tax authorities.

Philip Brent (Freddie): Lives out of the country with his wife Flavia to avoid paying taxes and is on a secret visit.

Flavia Brent (Belinda): Philip Brent's wife. She is dependable, though not one for household duties.

Burglar (Selsdon): An old man in his seventies, breaking into the Brents' house.

Sheikh (Freddie): Interested in renting the house.

Plot

Each of the three acts of Noises Off contains a performance of the first act of a play within a play, a sex farce called Nothing On. The three acts of Noises Off are each named "Act One" on the contents page of the script, though they are labelled normally in the body of the script, and the programme for Noises Off will include, provided by the author, a comprehensive programme for the Weston-super-Mare run of Nothing On, including spoof advertisements (for sardines) and acknowledgments to the providers of mysterious props that do not actually appear (e.g. stethoscope, hospital trolley, and straitjacket). Nothing is seen of the rest of Nothing On except for the ending of its Act 2.