About the Play:

The Play That Goes Wrong is a full-length comedy by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields. An inept and accident-prone amateur theatre company attempts to perform a 1920s murder mystery. From collapsing sets to missed cues and malfunctioning props, everything that can go wrong does – with side-splitting results. The Play That Goes Wrong is a global phenomenon that's guaranteed to leave your audience aching with laughter!

The Play That Goes Wrong is an outrageously chaotic comedy about a drama society attempting to stage a murder mystery called "The Murder at Haversham Manor". This hilarious Olivier Award winning 'Play within a Play' follows the misadventures of the hapless The Cornley Drama Society, who are trying their very best to stage its newest production. But things soon go awry as the leading lady is knocked unconscious, the corpse refuses to play dead and the actors trip over everything, including their lines! Despite the mishaps, the accident-prone performers push through, intent on completing the performance of a 1920s whodunit while attempting to fool their audience into thinking absolutely nothing is wrong. Can they get the production back on track before the final curtain falls? Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, in The Play That Goes Wrong anything that can go wrong, absolutely will… with fantastic flair!

The Play That Goes Wrong began in 2012 as a one-act play in a tiny pub theatre in London. A second act was written for the Edinburgh Festival, and then on to the West End, where it has been running since late 2014. It then played Broadway from 2017 to 2019 at the Lyceum Theatre becoming the longest running play on Broadway at the time with over 750 performances, before moving to its current home Off-Broadway at New World Stages. The play has been produced widely at professional theatres across the North America and has been mounted by high schools, colleges, and community theatres.

Cast: 2 female, 6 male

What people say:

"A gut-busting hit! The audience roared as loudly as the crowds at any wrestling match." — New York Times

"Hilarious…a ridiculously entertaining disaster." — Entertainment Weekly

"It's as though The Mousetrap has been taken over by Monty Python." — WhatsOnStage (UK)

"A masterpiece of malfunction." — Times of London (UK)

About the Playwright:

Henry Shields is an award-winning writer and actor. He trained at LAMDA and has been a member of Mischief Theatre since 2009.

Jonathan Sayer is an Olivier award-winning writer, actor and is the Company Director of Mischief Theatre.

Henry Lewis is an award-winning writer and actor. He trained at LAMDA and has been a member of Mischief Theatre since 2009.