Katherine Kingsley joins the West End cast of Noises Off at the Phoenix Theatre
Katherine Kingsley has joined the 40th-anniversary production of Michael Frayn’s Noises Off at London’s Phoenix Theatre until 11 March 2023.
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Noises Off Tour- Felicity Kendall stars in Michael Frayn’s classic pre West End
Felicity Kendall stars in the Noises Off Tour celebrating the 40th anniversary of Michael Frayn’s beloved comedy ahead of a West End season.
Copenhagen Tour 2021 – tour schedule and tickets
Michael Frayn’s award-winning play Copenhagen is to open at Theatre Royal Bath prior to a UK Tour. Copenhagen tour tickets are on sale now.
REVIEW: Noises Off, Garrick Theatre London ✭✭✭✭✭
Douglas Mayo reviews the Lyric Hammersmith’s production of Noises Off which has transferred to the Garrick Theatre, London.
Lyric Theatre’s Noises Off transfers to Garrick Theatre
The Lyric Theatre Hammersmith’s production of Michael Frayn’s acclaimed comedy Noises Off is to transfer to London’s Garrick Theatre for a limited run from September 2019.
Hampstead’s Wild Honey – Casting Announced
Hampstead Theatre have announced casting for their production of Michael Frayn’s Wild Honey which will be presented from 2 December 2016 – 14 January 2017. Tickets are on sale now. Wild Honey is a comedy of errors, drawn from Chekhov’s untitled – and posthumously discovered – early play. It is a tale of nineteenth-century Russian life replete with classic misunderstandings, irrepressible desires and nostalgia for a vanishing world. Village schoolmaster Platonov has it all: wit, intelligence, a comfortable and respectable life in provincial Russia, and the attentions of four beautiful women – one of whom is his devoted wife… As summer arrives and the seasonal festivities commence, the rapidly intensifying heat makes everyone giddy with sunlight, vodka – and passion. Wild Honey will be directed by Howard Davies – Hampstead’s Associate Artist and will star Geoffrey Streatfeild in the role of Platonov making his debut at Hampstead Theatre. The cast … Read more
REVIEW: Matchbox Theatre, Hamsptead Theatre ✭✭
There is no complaint about the writing. Frayn creates situations and conveys ideas quickly and cleverly. His knowledge of human kind and its foibles, the things which interest and aggravate, is wide-ranging, and there is little in the world that he cannot cover in a comic sheen. Nina Wadia, alone of the six performers, has a very clear idea of the farceur, and she effortlessly creates a string of quite different characters, all of whom tick with eccentricity and tock with energy.
REVIEW: Donkeys Years, Rose Theatre Kingston ✭✭✭
Frayn is a genius and a clever wordsmith to boot. He orchestrates the silliness here with a precision that is formidable and even now, almost forty years on, some of his traps are so well laid that they prove genuinely surprising when sprung.
