The Play That Goes Wrong is headed for the Lighthouse, Poole

The Play That Goes Wrong is billed as a 'highly physical comedy packed with finely-tuned farce and Buster Keaton inspired slapstick, delivered with split-second timing and ambitious daring'.

It 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.

Winning the 2014 Whatsonstage.com Award for Best New Comedy, the 2015 Broadway World UK Award for Best New Play and the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, The Play That Goes Wrong is now enjoying its third year in the West End, where it continues to play to sold-out houses.

It will be staged at Lighthouse from Monday February 20 until Saturday, February 25, with a free post-show talk following the performance on Friday, February 24.

The play was co-written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields of the Mischief Theatre company, which 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.

The company now performs across the UK and internationally with improvised and original scripted work, with three productions playing concurrently in the West End: The Play That Goes Wrong at The Duchess Theatre; The Comedy About A Bank Robbery at the Criterion Theatre; and Peter Pan Goes Wrong at the Apollo Theatre.

Mischief Theatre made its television debut last Christmas on BBC One, with a TV production of Peter Pan Goes Wrong filmed in front of a live studio audience, featuring guest star David Suchet as the narrator.

The company is led by Artistic Director Henry Lewis and Company Director Jonathan Sayer.

Tickets for the play are priced from £20, available from lighthousepoole.co.uk or 01202 280000.

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