If that headline made you groan, or maybe chuckle, consider it a warmup for attending the 63rd season opener show at Bremerton Community Theatre Sept. 15.

“Noises Off” is a full-force farce, or actually a farce within a farce. Or a farce of a farce. Confused? Again, good warmup exercise.

“Noises Off” tells the story of a touring English theatre troupe which is attempting to put on a traditional sex farce called “Nothing On,” but the play chronicles the action offstage as much as on.

Act one takes place during dress rehearsal, but it’s obvious they’re not ready for the show to begin. Act two is opening night as seen from backstage, and act three takes place well into the run. By then, the performance onstage and off ain’t pretty. Bickering between the actors bubbles up between the characters until it’s hard to tell real life from acting.

The comedy marks the BCT directorial debut for Pavlina Morris, who runs the “other” Bremerton theater company, Changing Scene Theatre Northwest. She is also directing the fall theater production at Bremerton High School, Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” which starts rehearsals next week, and running lights for the Changing Scene production of “Buried Child,” which also opens next week.

This schedule-juggling act doesn’t bother Morris, who acted and directed in Denver before coming to Bremerton. The chance to direct “Noises Off” was one she didn’t want to pass up.

“I’ve wanted to do this play forever,” she said. “I saw the movie 10 or so years ago and ran right out and got the script.”

The problem was finding a venue that could accommodate the complicated set, which calls for many doors to slam and a revolving two-story set to show the on and offstage action.

BCT fit the bill, and the play was on.

Steve Goupil designed the set, along with Bob Montgomery, who designed a similar “Noises Off” set for BCT 15 years ago.

“This show is one of the funniest plays ever written,” Morris said. It’s brilliant — it completely captures what it’s like to put on a production, with all the drama onstage and off. If you’ve ever been involved in a production, you know these people.”

Actually, Morris does know most of the people in the ensemble cast, either from Changing Scene plays or from her part in BCT’s “And Then There Were None” last February. Each cast members plays an actor and a character.

The play features Judy Nichols as Dottie/Mrs. Clackett; Charlie Birdsell as Lloyd, the director; Ray Deuel as Garry/Roger; Eden McFadden as Brook/Vicki; Diana George as stage manager Poppy; Anne Biglow as Belinda/Flavia; Steve Goupil as Frederick/Phillip; Darren Hembd as the assistant stage manager and Gary Fetterplace as Selsdon/the burglar.

Morris said this truly is an ensemble cast — there is no one star.

“This play takes the effort, energy and expertise of all the cast members,” she said.

Cast member Selsdon also lent his talents in the dialogue area. A native of England, he assisted fellow Brit Ali Budge in coaching the other actors with their English accents.

While accents and regional dialects can be the Achilles heel of community theater, Morris said it’s more complicated to not use accents with English plays, because they are written in English speech patterns (as opposed to American). And somehow, farces are just funnier with an accent.

Also assisting with the production are Adam Matthew, lighting; Brianna Osborne, stage manager; and Chris Dolan, assistant stage manager.

“Noises Off” opens Sept. 15 and runs weekends through Oct. 8 at the Bremerton Community Theatre, 599 Lebo Blvd., Bremerton. Showtimes are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays.

Tickets are $10 adults, $9 seniors and students and $7 under 12, available at the box office 2-5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and by phone at (360) 373-5152.