'Frayn's construct is based on the principle that if farce involves watching the wheels come off a well-oiled machine, then nothing could be funnier than seeing the wheels fall off a farce itself... Pure comedy gold.'

Alfred Hickling, Guardian, 26.2.09

'Michael Frayn's deleriously funny comedy about actors in crisis is probably being produced somewhere in the world every week of the year.'

Jeremy Kingston, The Times, 21.05.10

'Another of Frayn's regular motifs surfaces here, the mayhem that results when precise order breaks down.'

Jeremy Kingston, The Times, 21.05.10

'Is Michael Frayn's farce about a farce the funniest play ever commited to paper? It would certainly be in my top 3.'

Robert Dawson Scott, The Times, 22.06.10

'You have to hand it to Michael Frayn. He is nothing if not electric. It is scarcely beleivable that he is the author of Copenhagen (a deeply philisophical play about the politics of science) and this most famous of modern English farces, Noises off.'

Mark Brown, Sunday Herald, 13.06.10

As finely worked as a Swiss watch and as funny as the human condition permits..the zigzag brilliance of the text as the clunky lines of the farce-within-a-farce rub against the sharp dialogue of reality.

Michael Billington, Guardian