THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Comes to Marlowe Theatre

The West End, Broadway and worldwide hit The Play That Goes Wrong comes to Canterbury next month (July).

Winning the 2014 Whatsonstage.com Award for Best New Comedy, the 2015 Broadway World UK Award for Best New Play and the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, The Play That Goes Wrong is now enjoying its third year in the West End, where it continues to play to sold-out houses. Licensed to 33 countries, with productions playing in Tokyo, Paris, Budapest, Rome, Warsaw, Shanghai, Cape Town and Melbourne, The Play That Goes Wrong's original cast opened on Broadway in April. 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 half 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. 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.

The touring cast features Katie Bernstein (Annie), Jason Callender (Jonathan), Edward Howells (Dennis), Edward Judge (Robert), Alastair Kirton (Max), Meg Mortell (Sandra), Graeme Rooney (Trevor) and PatRick Warner (Chris).

Mischief Theatre was founded in 2008 by a group of graduates of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and began as an improvised comedy group. The company performs across the UK and internationally with improvised and original scripted work. It has three productions playing concurrently in the West End: The Play That Goes Wrong at The Duchess Theatre; The Comedy About A Bank Robbery at the Criterion Theatre; and Peter Pan Goes Wrong at the Apollo Theatre. The company made its television debut on BBC One at Christmas with a TV production of Peter Pan Goes Wrong, filmed in front of a live studio audience and featuring guest star David Suchet as the narrator. The company is led by Artistic Director Henry Lewis and Company Director Jonathan Sayer.

The Play That Goes Wrong is at The Marlowe Theatre from Monday 31 July to Saturday 5 August, at 7.30pm and 2.30pm (Thursday and Saturday). Tickets, priced from £20.25 to £36.25 (concessions available), are from the Box Office on 01227 787787, and marlowetheatre.com. The show is recommended for those aged eight and over.

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