London Theatre Award nomination Lindsay Posner: '.. the comic invention is so prodigal that there are moments when you are no longer certain quite what you are laughing at. All you know is that you can’t stop.'

The Telegraph: “By the end you feel that every possible permutation of the things you can do with plates of sardines, malfunctioning telephones, dodgy dialogue, libidinous actors, dropped trousers, and shoe laces that have been maliciously tied together has been comprehensively explored. And the comic invention is so prodigal that there are moments when you are no longer certain quite what you are laughing at. All you know is that you can’t stop... In these dark, anxious times, Noises Off offers an infallible escape into happiness.”

So, after collecting himself from uncontrollable fits of laughter The Telegraph’s Charles Spencer gives the latest Michael Frayn revival five stars.

Lindsay Posner directs this masterpiece of merriment at the Old Vic. A RADA graduate, Lindsay won two Laurence Olivier Awards during his time as Associate Director at the Royal Court. Posner later went on to work for the RSC and the National Theatre; staging works by Jonson, Sheridan and Moliere to name but a few. The West-End pundit has also turned his hand to Television, having directed The Maitlands starring Eileen Atkins and Bill Nighy, Television play, Two Oranges and a Mango, and appearing in a documentary about Pinter in 2009.