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New Kennedy Center production embraces mishaps

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‘The Play That Goes Wrong’Through Aug. 13Kennedy Center$39–$159kennedy-center.org Theater is no stranger to mishaps and mistakes, but with “The Play That Goes Wrong,” currently playing at the Kennedy Center, they’re invited and relished.

Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields’ zany comedy is a play within a play titled, “The Murder at Haversham Manor,” presented by the fictitious Cornley University Drama Society.

We meet the usual cast of characters — British toffs, servants, and an inspector — but the hitch is that a lot goes wrong from flubbed lines, missed cues, breaking character to a collapsing set.

In fact, every possible thing that can go wrong does. The hijinks begin even before the play begins, including a couple of staged disagreements in the aisles of the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater.

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