Noises Off, Old Vic
The play-within-a-play device has honourable antecedents - playwrights from Thomas Kyd and Anton Chekhov, through to Bertolt Brecht and Tennessee Williams, have flirted with it, while Shakespeare loved it so much that he used it in several of his plays, most famously in Hamlet, in which a group of travelling players perform "The Mouse-Trap".read more