The Play That Goes Wrong is a night of slapstick silliness – review
Now a staple on London’s West End, The Play That Goes Wrong is brought to us by the Mischief theatre company. Taking on the role of the fictional Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, it tells the story of – and we assume this isn’t a spoiler – a play that goes quite spectacularly wrong.
This am dram group are attempting a staging of the invented whodunnit Murder At Haversham Manor, and things start falling apart (figuratively and literally) almost immediately.
In fact, we’re given the impression things aren’t quite going to plan before the show starts. Although not a full-on immersive experience, the fourth wall is regularly broken and there are some elements of audience participation.
Before the play formally begins, we see a stage hand chasing around the auditorium looking for a missing dog, while an audience member is brought up on to the stage to hold a piece of collapsing staging in place while it’s being fixed.
