The play that comes back!
SLAPSTICK FARCE RETURNING TO VENUE CYMRU
IT’S all going to go wrong again in 2018! Causing further chaos nationwide, the Olivier Awardwinning, West End smash-hit comedy returns with the announcement of a brave new cast for 2018 UK Tour.
The Play That Goes Wrong, has announced the full cast for its 2018 UK Tour and presents: Jake Curran (Chris), Catherine Dryden (Annie), Bobby Hirston (Max), Benjamin McMahon (Dennis), Gabriel Paul (Trevor), Steven Rostance ( Jonathan), Kazeem Tosin Amore (Robert), Elena Valentine (Sandra) with David Kristopher-Brown (understudy), Laura White (understudy), Liam Horrigan (understudy) and Louisa Sexton (understudy).
Back on the road following the sell-out success of last year’s tour, the 2018 UK tour opened at Northampton’s Royal & Derngate on January 4, and will be visiting 34 venues nationwide until September 2018.
Winning eleven international awards, including the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy and a 2017 Tony Award for its Broadway transfer, The Play That Goes Wrong continues to play to sold-out houses in the West End, whilst enjoying its new status as Broadway’s longestrunning play.
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.
It has since played to an audience of almost one and a half million worldwide. This autumn, The Play That Goes Wrong has been playing simultaneously in twelve countries.
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.
“Why would all these regional theatres want a return visit of our little murder mystery show when last year’s tour went so badly wrong?
“I am at a loss to understand it,” asks producer Kenny Wax
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.
Their other production, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, is now booking into its third year in the West End at the Criterion Theatre and their new improv show – Mischief Movie Night – opens in the West End on December 13 at the Arts Theatre.
In December 2016, Mischief made their TV debut on the BBC with Peter Pan Goes Wrong, starring David Suchet as the guest narrator.
The play returns to Venue Cymru from Monday, September 10, to Saturday, September 15.
Book on-line at www.venuecymru. co.uk or call the Box Office on 01492 872000.