‘Noises Off’ is coming to The 1812 Theatre to close out our 2024 Season!

Called “the funniest farce ever written,” Noises Off presents a manic menagerie of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop called Nothing’s On.

Doors slamming, on and offstage love triangles, and plates and plates of sardines all feature in the plot of this hilarious and classically comic play.

Showing in The Lowe Auditorium – 14th November to 7th December, 2024

Matthew Shepard, an openly gay college student was tied to a fence post and brutally murdered in a prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming, in 1998 because of his sexual identity. Shepard’s murder is one of the most well-known hate crimes in recent American history.

For “The Laramie Project,” the Tectonic Theater Project travelled to Laramie just four weeks after Shepard’s death, with the intent of creating a theatrical portrait of a town coming to grips with hate-fueled violence. Over the course of a year and a half, the group interviewed over 200 people, collecting a wide array of different perspectives on the crime. The dialogue and monologues that comprise “The Laramie Project” are taken from these interviews, along with news reports, courtroom transcripts, and journal entries.

Hailed as one of the most captivating and encompassing pieces of contemporary theatre, the play shocks, challenges, and moves all who watch it as it reveals the lowest depths of hatred and greatest heights of compassion that lies within all human beings in any seemingly average community.

Showing in the bakery@1812 – 3rd October – 26th October, 2024