The Play That Goes Wrong: Theatre Royal

The West End’s Olivier Award winning box office hit, The Play That Goes Wrong, has announced a major national tour for 2017 and will be coming to Newcastle Theatre Royal Tue 17 – Sat 21 January.

The Play That Goes Wrong will see Mischief Theatre Company make its return to the Theatre Royal where it enjoyed a successful run in 2015 with Peter Pan Goes Wrong.  Awarded the 2014 Whatsonstage.com Best New Comedy and the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, The Play That Goes Wrong is now enjoying its second year in the West End, where it continues to play to sold-out houses.

It is a remarkable rags-to-riches story for a play, which started its life at a London fringe venue with only four paying members of the public at the first performance, and has since played to an audience of over a quarter of a million.

Co-written by Mischief Theatre company members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, The Play That Goes Wrong is a highly physical comedy packed with finely-tuned farce and Buster Keaton inspired slapstick delivered with split-second timing and ambitious daring. The play introduces The ‘Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society’ who are attempting to put on a 1920s’ murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong… does, as the accident prone thespians battle on against all the odds to get to their final curtain call.