The Guardsman at A Noise Within

The Guardsman

A Noise Within
3352 E Foothill Blvd Pasadena

Budapest's most beautiful young actress is notorious for affairs that only last six months. When she finally marries, she chooses the city's most handsome and talented young actor. Five and a half months later, suspecting his new wife is getting restless, the actor takes on his most daring role yet—disguising himself as a dashing Emperor's guardsman—to test her fidelity and win her love. But the more he woos his wife as this guardsman, the more insanely jealous he gets of the character he feels compelled to play. The Guardsman is a quick witted comedy about life in the theatre and acts of imitation and deception.

Thru - Dec 1, 2013

Thursdays: 7:30pm

Saturdays: 2:00pm & 8:00pm

Sundays: 2:00pm

Price: $40

Show Type: Drama

Box Office: 626-356-3100

www.anoisewithin.org

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The Guardsman Reviews

Average Rating based on 8 reviews

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Los Angeles Times - Recommended

"...Toss in a seamless supporting ensemble and first-rate production values, and you couldn't ask for a finer example of how captivating and downright fun live theater can be."

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- Philip Brandes

LA Weekly - Somewhat Recommended

"...Unfortunately, director Michael Michetti's otherwise handsome revival (on Tom Buderwitz's elegant set and under Adam Frank's bravura lighting) can't quite blow enough of the dust off Molnár's antique ironies and patent absurdities to ignite more than polite titters."

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- Bill Raden

Stage and Cinema - Not Recommended

"...A Noise Within's production of The Guardsman, however, is divorce-worthy. Molnár's smart, barbed dialogue is bogged down by Michael Michetti's banal direction. The delectable, caviar-refined humor throughout the piece is reduced to vaudevillian slices of spam. Its calloused twenty-first century view of a turn-of-the-century marriage is unoriginal, boring, and lacking coherence."

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- Jesse David Corti

EyeSpyLA - Recommended

"...At A Noise Within's ‘The Guardsman' by Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár, translated by Frank Marcus, any superfluous obsequiousness is a fault on my part and should not discredit the intent of my main objective: to convince you, patient reader, to Pasadena posthaste. Why? Because this rarely produced comedy of the sexes is charming, witty, entertaining and relevant given our current divorce rate."

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- M.R. Hunter

StageHappenings.com - Recommended

"...With actors as skilled as Douglas and Mirto, the to-ing and fro-ing amuses and is a primer for really-good acting. And directing, too. Michetti keeps the pace fast and the actors on key and the audience ate it all up with gales of knowing laughter."

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- Dale Reynolds

LA Stage Times - Somewhat Recommended

"...The English translation is by Frank Marcus. Michael Michetti directed, but he succeeds in bringing this musty old chestnut to life only sporadically. Nowadays a play with a similar premise would be turned into a 75- or a 90-minute sketch with no intermission; this one has been extended beyond its appropriate length. Not every old play is a classic."

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- Don Shirley

On Stage Los Angeles - Recommended

"...All in all The Guardsman works just fine and is what ANW is dedicated to, bringing little known classic theatre to Pasadena."

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- Michael Sheehan

Neon Tommy - Recommended

"...It's not easy for an early 20th century comedy to be reminiscent of both Shakespeare and "You've Got Mail," but "The Guardsman," playing through November 30 at A Noise Within in Pasadena. pulls it off with aplomb."

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- Katie Buenneke