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    Thank you!

    Thank you to all the generous donors who gave to our Back to School Campaign supporting our Classics Live! Education program. Every year, A Noise Within provides over 15,000 students with full or partial scholarships to participate in the Classics Live! education program. These scholarships include: Performance tickets Transportation Post-show conversations with the artists Online…

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    A Doctor’s Note from Alan Blumenfeld

    As a Resident Artist, being a part of the A Noise Within family means the world to me. I am heartbroken to not be a part of what I sure will be a spectacular production of The Imaginary Invalid. I’ve never had to withdraw from a show before. Right now, I have to put my…

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    Open House 2016 Highlights

    A huge thanks to everyone who showed up at our Open House event last Saturday, September 17! Though the doors-wide-open, behind-the-scenes-peek was envisioned to be a special treat just for our our 25th Anniversary Celebratory season, its success is inspiring us to make it an annual event. For those of you who may have missed it,…

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    We’ll Miss You, Summer Interns!

    Rather than baking in the unforgiving Los Angeles sun, or trudging through some overcrowded outdoor music festival, three incisive college students wisely decided to spend their summer interning here at A Noise Within Theatre!  Let’s meet these lovely youths, shall we? Sophie: Education Intern Hometown: Arcadia, CA UC Berkely c/o 2016 Theatre and Performance Studies Major/Education…

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    Share Your Story: Loretta Coha

    We took the opportunity to chat with one of our season pass holders, Loretta Coha, about what she loves about A Noise Within. Check out her responses below! How (and when) did you discover ANW? I discovered ANW when they started out many years ago in Glendale. I was living in Glendale at the time…

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    The 1947 “Failure” of Jean Genet’s The Maids

    Genet is on record describing The Maids as a “failure.” Why? Christopher Lane, in his article “The Voided Role: On Genet”, supposes that the “failure” of the play is encoded in its message, or we might say, in its poetics…. Lane writes that “Genet’s interest in his characters’ fantasies and identifications interrupts what might seem an obvious oscillation between master and…

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    Jean Genet based The Maids on a real murder case from 1933

    Christine and Léa Papin were real-life sisters who came from an abusive, dysfunctional, poor family. As adults, the two were extremely close and may have had an incestuous relationship. They worked as maids for the Lancelin family for many years, but one night in February 1933, they brutally murdered their employer, Madame Lancelin, and her daughter, Genvieve, in their home….

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    Quackery and Medicine in 17th Century France

    The Imaginary Invalid references many questionable antiquated medical practices. Learn more about the real-life history of “medicine” in 17th Century France: “We are doctors come to warn you Of the phonies out to harm you Could your guru be a schmuck? If it quacks, then it’s a duck! Your guru scoffs at your queries, And…

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    The Imaginary Invalid: Notes on Names

    Enrich your experience of The Imaginary Invalid and discover the fascinating explanations behind the show’s meaningful character names: Argan’s name sounds a little like “argent,” which [in French] means “money.” It also sounds a bit like “Orgon,” a character from another of Molière’s plays whose faith in the titular character, Tartuffe, is comparable to Argan’s faith in doctors. Béline’s name is loosely…

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