World Play:

Statement: In Europe in this era many things were taking place such as the Falklands war, Pope John Paul II being wounded to Jets crashing in Norway. Many of these controversies hold true to the way that the actors as humans may hold themselves. Many things were different in the world of 1982 compared to that of today’s standards. Such discovers as Satellite as well as MRI machines were introduced to Brittan in 1982. Although hair and clothing in Europe seemed to fall towards what the TV and movie actors were wearing. Such TV shows such as Magnum, P.I and Knight Rider where hits with the teenagers and gave them a new rugged outlook on how the cool kids looked. In the music world Michael Jackson came out with his debut of “Thriller” which sky rocketed his adult solo career. While on the other side of the music standard you had Ozzy Osbourne biting the head off of a bat during a performance on stage. Over all music was in its beginning stages of showing itself in a new light and also showing its own new genre of music call “punk” which was music that seemed to be geared for that of the teenager of this era. As for Technological advances developers created the CD player which people thought took away a lot of the bulk and compacted everything into an even smaller set up to carry around. Also human insulin was produced and sold out for the very first time. Also in 1982 scientist Scott Fahlam suggested using such expressions in e-mail such as emoticon which was said to be a way of expressing one’s self and their emotion on e-mail. These occurrences help form and create as visual aids for the characters of noises off. Many of these things need to be addressed in order to gain a better understanding of the technological as well as other advances in the world that the playwright lived in at the time that he wrote the production. These key issues could be things that Frayn is addressing and without the research could be lost in the dialogue if not used in the correct manner as they were placed for comedic humor on issues that he was dealing with in that time era. This research also helps technologically for the set designer to give them an outlook of what things need to be discussed about as for that of setting and placement of furniture of the set itself. As well as that for the sound designer this research gives good examples of the types and styles of music that was listened to during this era. Although it may not be the proper choice per say it gives him/her somewhat of a better direction to look into.