I've seen this play performed, but I've never actually read it until now, and it's just as funny on the page as it is on the stage. The thing is, it's entirely ridiculous, but the humour is so sharp, and the whole thing so enormously quotable, that the ridiculousness becomes part of the appeal. Granted, it's been years since I saw the play, and I only retained a vague sense of plot, but I was surprised on nearly every page by sentences I recognised; sentences that have become so much a part of culture that they've just clearly stuck through osmosis if nothing else. What an achievement, to create something so enormously quotable! Anyway, it's clever and silly and enormously entertaining, and reading it makes me want to see it performed again just so I can hear the rest of the audience laughing with me.