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Fullerton College's Bronwyn Dodson Theatre is bustling with activity. Stagehands are running back and forth, trying to perfect the set. Actors are reciting their lines. Green couches and cardboard chairs are strewn all over the workshop.

"Noises Off," a three-act farce written by Michael Frayn, is being directed by Chuck Ketter, advanced acting and technical theatre instructor.

The presentation will run Wednesday through Sunday and May 15-18 at 8 p.m. and May 19 at 2 p.m

"I wanted to do this play because we in Fullerton," he says the change in the hadn't done a real broad farce like this in a while Ketter said. "We have great student body in our department. They're all senior students and they're · ready. It's going to be a unique show,"

Ketter says he has much respect for 'Noises Off'·'this is an extremely difficult play to put on. The performers have to have "The real play here isn't the play impeccable timing," Ketter said.

"These are thinking, mature actors. They have a wide range of experience."

According to Ketter, the cast is ready to take on the production. While performing scenes of the play for "A Night in Fullerton," he says the change in the cast was incredible.

"The difference in the cast when they had an audience told me they were ready. It's going to be a unique show," Ketter said.

'Noises Off' begins with.a troop of frantic British actors in their chaotic final rehearsal of their performance,'Nothing On.'

"The real play here isn't the play they're putting on. It's what is happening behind the scenes. We are seeing the backstage chaos; sardines flying through the air, axes swinging. It's about all sorts of mistaken liaisons," Ketter said.

At the end of act three, you get to see how all these acting relationships have gone awry, and now they're just out for blood.· It's total chaos," he continued.

"It's really about actors and the theatre"

Ketter directed ''Noises Off" eight years ago at Citrus College.

"I'm tremendously excited," he said. "It's one of those shows that once it opens, there isn't much I can do, It's all< in the actors hands. It's both scary and< delightfull but it's a cast .I trust very much."

Tickets are available through the Fine Arts Box Office, located on Lemon Street in the college theater complex, >Monday through .Friday, 10:30 a.m. to 3:30p.m. .

Reservations can be made by calling (714) 871-8101. Admission prices range from $5 to ·$8.