Noise Off at the Old Vic yesterday. Can’t recommend the production highly enough; great cast, belly laughs galore – I could usually watch farce all day long and hardly raise a smile but Frayn’s 1982 “farce about a farce” is still achingly funny. As an aside, the cast busts a gut for 2 hours every night plus matinees twice a week but footballers “get tired” when asked to play for 90 minutes twice in seven days. What’s wrong with this picture?
