40th anniversary production of NOISES OFF transfers to the West End from January 2023

Photo credit: Nobby Clark

Theatre Royal Bath Productions have announced that Michael Frayn’s multi award-winning farce, Noises Off, will head to the West End’s Phoenix Theatre for a strictly limited run from 19 January-11 March 2023.

Noises Off stars Felicity Kendal (The Good Life, Relatively Speaking and Hay Fever) as Dotty Otley, Tracy-Ann Oberman (EastEnders, Friday Night Dinner and Edmond) as Belinda Blair and Matthew Kelly (The Dresser, Waiting For Godot, as well as hosting Stars In Their Eyes and You Bet!) as Selsdon Mowbray, Alexander Hanson as Lloyd Dallas, Joseph Millson as Garry Lejeune, Sasha Frost as Brooke Ashton, Pepter Lunkuse as Poppy Norton Taylor and Jonathan Coy as Fredrick Fellows.

This celebrated 40th Anniversary production directed by Lindsay Posner opened to critical acclaim at Theatre Royal Bath this autumn before touring to Richmond, Brighton and Cambridge. We gave the show five stars when we saw the show in Brighton, Besties.

One of the greatest British comedies ever written, Michael Frayn’s celebrated play serves up a riotous double bill – a play within a play. Hurtling along at breakneck speed, Noises Off follows the on and off-stage antics of a touring theatre company as they stumble their way through the 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.

Noises Off is written by Michael Frayn, with direction by Lindsay Posner, design by Simon Higlett, lighting by Paul Pyant, sound by Greg Clarke, composition by Will Stuart, movement and fight direction by Ruth Cooper-Brown, and casting by Ginny Schiller.

Tickets go on general sale at 12pm today (24 October) here.