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  • Venue Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
  • Performance dates Booking to 16 December 2023
  • Running time 2 hours 15 minutes (including interval)

★★★★ “As blissfully funny as ever” – Evening Standard

Michael Frayn’s hilarious backstage comedy Noises Off returns to the West End starring Felicity Kendal, Tamzin Outhwaite and Mathew Horne.

One of the greatest British comedies ever written, Lindsay Posner directs a stellar cast including Felicity Kendal (The Good Life, Relatively Speaking, Hay Fever), Mathew Horne (Gavin & Stacey, Rain Man, Pride), Tamzin Outhwaite (EastEnders, The Tower, Sweet Charity), James Fleet (The Vicar of Dibley, Four Weddings and a Funeral), Jonathan Coy (Anatomy of a Scandal, Relatively Speaking, Ink) and Alexander Hanson (Killing Eve, Follies, 42nd Street).

Michael Frayn’s celebrated plays serves up a riotous double bill, with a play-within-a-play that hurtles along at breakneck speed! Noises Off follows the on and offstage antics of a touring theatre company as they stumble their way through the fictional farce, Nothing On – with hysterical results!

Noises Off is playing at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from 27 September to 16 December 2023.

Noises Off follows the riotous stage antics – on and off-stage – of a hapless touring production of fictional farce Nothing On. From the shambolic final rehearsals before opening night in Weston-super-Mare, to a disastrous matinee in Ashton-Under-Lyme seen entirely, and hilariously silently, from backstage, before we share their final, brilliantly catastrophic performance in Stockton-on-Tees.

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Who is in the cast of Noises Off?

An all-star cast for Noises Off includes Felicity Kendal as Dotty Otley, Mathew Horne as Garry Lejeune, Tamzin Outhwaite as Belinda Blair, Jonathan Coy as Frederick Fellows, Alexander Hanson as Lloyd Dallas, and James Fleet as Selsdon Mowbray.

The cast also includes Sasha Frost as Brooke Ashton, Pepter Lunkuse as Poppy Norton-Taylor, and Oscar Batterham as Tim.

Who are the creative team of Noises Off?

Written by Michael Frayn, this production is directed by Lindsay Posner, one of the UK’s most accomplished directors of comedy. 

Other creatives include Simon Higlett (Designer), Paul Pyant (Lighting Designer), Greg Clarke (Sound Designer), Will Stuart (Composer), Ruth Cooper-Brown (Movement and Fight Director), George Jibson (Associate Director), Ginny Schiller (Casting Director).

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Photos and trailer: The Phoenix Theatre production

Venue Information

Theatre Royal Haymarket , 8 Haymarket, London, SW1Y 4HT

Nearest Tube or Train: Piccadilly Circus (Bakerloo, Piccadilly), Leicester Square (Northern, Piccadilly)

Nearest Buses: 3, 6, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 22, 23, 24, 29, 38, 40, 88, 91, 94, 139, 159, 176

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Critics' reviews of Noises Off

★★★★ "Meticulously plotted and as blissfully funny as ever" - The Evening Standard (Phoenix Theatre)

★★★★ "Frayn’s immortal farce is an antidote to winter gloom" - The Times (Phoenix Theatre)

★★★★ "Michael Frayn’s farce is as sublimely funny as ever" - i News (Phoenix Theatre)

★★★★ "Felicity Kendal heads a star cast in this hilarious revival" - The Telegraph (Phoenix Theatre)

★★★★ "Frayn’s exquisite farce-within-a-farce finds new humanity" - Guardian (Theatre Royal Bath)

★★★★ "Felicity Kendal heads a cracking cast in this classy, hilarious revival" - Telegraph (Theatre Royal Bath)

★★★★ "Stellar performances in a rollicking farce" - The Stage (Theatre Royal Bath)

Also see: Noises Off Reviews Round-up

Frequently Asked Questions

Noises Off is playing at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London
The running time of Noises Off is 2 hours 15 minutes (including interval)
Yes, Noises Off has matinee performances on the following days: Wednesday, Saturday
No, sorry, Noises Off has now completed its run and is no longer on sale.

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