Mischief Theatre set to steal the show with North East tour date

Following the success of its multi award-winning comedy The Play That Goes Wrong, Mischief Theatre make a return to Newcastle Theatre Royal this month with The Comedy About A Bank Robbery . The Olivier Awardnominated West End smash hit will be at the theatre from January 22 to 26. Having played to packedout audiences with The Play That Goes Wrong in 2017 and 2018, Mischief Theatre had previously delighted North East theatre-goers in 2015 with Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Now booking into its third year at the Criterion Theatre in London, Mischief Theatre’s smashand-grab hit, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, is a comedy caper hailed as the funniest show in the West End. It’s set in summer 1958 when Minneapolis City Bank has been entrusted with a priceless diamond. An escaped convict is dead set on pocketing the gem with the help of his screwball sidekick, trickster girlfriend and the maintenance man. With mistaken identities, love triangles and hidden agendas, even the most reputable can’t be trusted. In a town where everyone’s a crook, who will end up bagging the jewel? Company director Jonathan Sayer said: “The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is not like our other shows in the fact that Bank is not a ‘play within a play’. It’s a traditional fourth-wall play, but you can expect an incrediblyhigh gag rate, huge stunts like the previous shows, all intertwined with some Marx Brothers patter and also lovely singing and bits of acrobatics.”

The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is not like our other shows as it’s not a play within a play