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I'm really looking forward to robbing this bank! Mischief's
smash-and-grab hit The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is a fast,
fabulous comedy caper and the funniest show in the West End! Summer
1958. 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?
Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, the
creators of the Olivier Award-winning Best New Comedy The Play That
Goes Wrong and Peter Pan Goes Wrong, The Comedy About A Bank
Robbery opened at the Criterion Theatre in London's West End in
April 2016. 'The best new comedy to open straight into the West End
in decades' Time Out 'Thrilling and daringly inventive' The
Guardian
Good evening, I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be
Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this must've given you all a damn
shock... The original version of the global hit play created by
Mischief. After benefiting from a large and sudden inheritance, the
inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embark
on producing an ambitious 1920s murder mystery. Hilarious disaster
ensues and the cast start to crack under the pressure. Can they get
the production back on track before the final curtain falls? This
one-act version of Mischief's world famous The Play That Goes Wrong
originally premiered at the Old Red Lion Theatre in London in 2012.
Since then, the expanded two-act version has taken the world by
storm and has been performed in over 35 countries across 5
continents, winning multiple awards including the WhatsOnStage and
Olivier Award for Best New Comedy plus a Tony and Drama Desk Award
for Best Scenic Design of a Play. This edition features the
original one-act edition of the play that's perfect to be enjoyed
on the page as well as in performance. A true global phenomenon, it
is guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter.
'A funny, heartwarming story, packed with memorable characters that
you'll want to cheer all the way. Ave it!' PETER KAY -- 'I decide
to do what any sensible adult would do and take the spare key from
the secretary's office and hide in the outside storage unit. Locked
away in the icy cold shipping container I gather my thoughts and
start to consider my next move. I start to feel much calmer, until
Winnie opens the unit to find me sat in the dark squashed against a
disused hotplate, a ball bag and multiple packets of unopened
socks. He takes a canister of Deep Heat and an old knee support and
closes me back in. It's a moment we'll never mention to each other
again.' On the second oldest football pitch in the world, Jonathan
Sayer stands atop a beer crate to address the assembled fans of
Ashton United FC. As his initial optimism begins to slip through
his fingers, the new co-chairman and co-owner (alongside his dad)
starts to realise the scale of the challenge ahead. Battling to
keep the club afloat, a record number of games without a win sees
hope turn to despair as Jonathan contends with a mutiny from a
group of octogenarian supporters, constant battles with the local
council and a star striker who arrives on crutches despite somehow
passing his medical. As the on-pitch form continues to deteriorate
and rifts appear between him and his father, Jonathan begins to
make some increasingly desperate decisions: sinking his savings
into an ever-spiralling wage bill, hiding in a freezing outdoor
storage unit to avoid questions and even seriously contemplating
bringing in a local priest to lift the 'Boxing Day Curse' by
performing a late-night exorcism on the pitch. Chronicling the
euphoric highs and bitter disappointments of the less glamourous
side of the beautiful game, Nowhere to Run is the hilarious,
heart-warming tale of life in the hot seat of a non-league football
club. 'Beautifully written and engaging... funny, warm and
entertaining. And stupid. Really stupid. I loved it!' MATT LUCAS
'Eat your heart out, Sheikh Mansour.' MICHAEL CALVIN 'Best thing
I've read about Ashton and I was born there.' JUSTIN MOORHOUSE
Good evening. I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be
Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this must've given you all a damn
shock. After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the
inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embark
on producing an ambitious 1920s murder mystery. They are delighted
that neither casting issues nor technical hitches currently stand
in their way. However, hilarious disaster ensues and the cast start
to crack under the pressure, but can they get the production back
on track before the final curtain falls? The Play That Goes Wrong
is a farcical murder mystery, a play within a play, conceived and
performed by award-winning company Mischief. It was first published
as a one-act play and is published in this new edition as a two-act
play.
The Christian Humanitarian Reading Initiative for Spiritual Theatre
(or C.H.R.I.S.T. for short) are putting on a production of The
Nativity Story. It's opening night and nothing is going to plan.
Despite a collapsing manger, a deranged donkey, and a director on
the brink of hysteria, the show must go on. This hilarious
tour-de-force is the second farce from Mischief, creators of the
critically acclaimed The Play That Goes Wrong. Once again, we watch
as order unravels itself and pandemonium ensues in a piece that
will be loved both as a piece to perform and one to watch. The
Nativity Goes Wrong received its world premiere at Reading Rep on
22 December.
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