Noises Off: A Handbook of Sound Effects

actors actual Advance the dimmer Alsatian amateur apparatus audience bass drum bell car effect chain CHAPTER Cherry Orchard crash creaks crowd crowd-conductor crowd-work cuckoo device discs door door-slam drumhead effectsman electric motor engine explosion fire flump Frank Napier giving cues gramophone records gravel hammer hand head heard horn imitated instrument Interval music kind length loud loudspeaker metal method musical saw necessary needed noise off-stage Old Vic padded passing peas percussion instruments performance person piece pipe play possible produced prompt corner rain rattle re-record reason rehearsal rhythm rhythmically roar ropes round sand-paper scene scenery screw secs sheet shell side Single horse siren Son et Lumière sound effects speed squeak stage stage-manager stick strike string suggest supposed swish tape recorder tapping theatre theatrical thunder thunder-sheet tion TYRONE GUTHRIE vocal mimicry voice wheel whistle wind wind-machine wood wooden