The Old Vic and West End smash hit Noises Off tours the UK following its triumphant and critically acclaimed sell out run in London. Read more …
Hailed as one of the greatest British comedies ever written, Michael Frayn’s multi-award-winning backstage farce serves up a riotous double bill - a play within a play. Hurtling along at breakneck speed it follows the backstage antics of a touring theatre company as they stumble their way through rehearsals in Weston-super-Mare, to a shambolic Wednesday matinee in Ashton-under-Lyne, and a final disastrous performance in Stockton-on-Tees.
There’s no resisting the sheer comic and technical genius of Frayn’s fantastic dramatic construction.
Though the action could be quicker and the humour could be sharper, this is a detailed, clever and rich piece of which rewards the observant and the theatrically minded. What it will offer to people not so interested in the genre is altogether less certain.
Definitely not to be missed.
It is certainly an evening which, when it comes to laughs and comic timing, has its cake and eats it.
Noises Off is chock full of fun, sheer daftness and pretty gentle mockery all carried off with tremendous skill and energy. Anything that generates such relatively innocent laughter has got be good.
Old Vic production of Noises Off set for UK tour
King's Theatre, Glasgow from Monday May 27, 2013, until Saturday June 1, 2013. More info: www.theambassadors.com/kings/