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  Noises Off review: Gags and twists in this send-up of theatre world will never get old

  No review can do full justice to the blissful, intricate hilarity of Michael Frayn’s Noises Off, in which an old-school sex-farce is seen in rehearsal, backstage and in performance, and in increasing states of disarray.Jeremy Herrin’s revival has been partially recast and sharpened up since it opened at the Lyric Hammersmith earlier this year, but still revolves around a clownishly batty Meera Syal as the ageing star-cum-producer, and Lloyd Owen as the arrogant, priapic director. God knows we al

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  Noises Off revival at Lyric Hammersmith to transfer to West End, with Meera Syal reprising her role

  The Lyric Hammersmith’s revival of classic farce Noises Off will transfer to the West End.Meera Syal will reprise her leading role in Michael Frayn’s comedy, which will run at the Garrick Theatre from September. Syal’s co-stars Lloyd Owen and Daniel Rigby will also return.Noises Off is what Frayn calls a “farce from behind”, taking place backstage with a theatre company performing a play called Nothing On. It follows an actress called Dotty Otley (Syal), her co-star and younger lover Garry Lejeu

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  Noises Off, Lyric Hammersmith, review: Frayn's farce about a farce raises laughs, but not the roof

  The play for which Michael Frayn will be remembered arrived in the West End in 1982, just as the Falklands War was starting. The final curtain didn’t fall until 1986. Audiences guffawed so helplessly that staff at the Savoy checked seats after each show for urine stains. The idea? Simple, inspired. In Act One we see the fraught late-night technical-cum-dress rehearsal for a creaky old sex farce (Nothing On) in Weston-super-Mare. In Act Two, we go back-stage at a matinee a month later – in Ashton

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  The 17 hottest plays and musicals to book tickets for this summer

  From a new adaptation of Booker-winner Life of Pi to the swansong of Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag, our theatre critic picks 10 must-sees for July and August

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