TONY AWARD-WINNING THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG to tour to Newcastle!

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TONY AWARD-WINNING 
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG 
to tour to Newcastle!

Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2015

Longest running comedy in the West End

Whatsonstage Award for Best New Comedy in 2014

"You'll never have a better time in a theatre!" - Forbes

"Hilarious! Nonstop pandemonium" - Entertainment Weekly

"The funniest play Broadway has ever seen!" - HuffPost

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2024 — After nearly eight years, it's time for audiences old and new to be rolling in the aisles as The Cornley Drama Society attempts to stage a 1920s murder mystery where everything goes hilariously wrong, The Play That Goes Wrong, touring Australia in August - September 2025, including Newcastle's Civic Theatre from 19 - 31 August. 

You all know the classic whodunnit story; there has been a murder at a country manor and an inspector is set on the case to find the culprit. But when these accident-prone thespians take it on, everything that can go wrong…does! The actors and crew battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! Who murdered Charles Haversham? You'll have to see for yourself!

Presented by GMG Productions and Stoddart Entertainment Group by arrangement with Mischief Worldwide Ltd, this fan favourite tour coincides with the 10th Anniversary UK performance. 

Mischief's The Play That Goes Wrong opened at the Duchess Theatre, London in September 2014, and this year celebrates its 10th year in the West End. The production shows no signs of slowing down since its first performance at The Old Red Lion Theatre with only four paying customers and has now been performed to over 3.5 million people around the world in every continent except Antarctica. 

The show's many achievements to date include:

• Over 3500 performances of The Play That Goes Wrong at the Duchess Theatre. 
• During the West End run members of The Drama Society have been hit (by objects or each other) more than 125,545 times
• 106 actors have performed in the show's Duchess Theatre run.
• The show has won 11 awards, including an Olivier, Tony and a Moliere.
• There have been productions of the play in 49 countries and in every continent except Antarctica (where producers fear a frosty reception).
• More than 4,246,481 people have seen the show worldwide, and there have been 7,822 performances in the English language.
• An actor has shouted out for a ledger 54,747 times. (And that's only in English.)
• A total of 58,180 door slams in America alone.
• 8 million people watched the 2015 performance at The Royal Variety Performance, with a further 6.3 million seeing the clip on YouTube.
• 2,607 fire extinguishers have been used to put out fires in The Play That Goes Wrong somewhere in the world in these past ten years.
• Winston the Dog has been successfully located zero times.

The Play That Goes Wrong is co-written by Mischief company members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields and is directed by Mark Bell, with set designs by Nigel Hook, costumes by Roberto Surace, lighting by Ric Mountjoy, original music by Rob Falconer, sound design by Andy Johnson. The Australian season will be directed by Associate Director Amy Milburn.

"The audience leaves with sore ribs from laughing. Without a doubt, The Play That Goes Wrong is a terrific night's entertainment." Stage Whispers

"This gleefully silly, inspired homage to amateur theatre - and the wildly unpredictable, rewarding gift of live performance - will win you over" Adelaide Advertiser

"For a play titled The Play That Goes Wrong, this is a show where everything goes right." Time Out Melbourne

"The Play That Goes Wrong is guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter!" The Weekend Edition

"Totally hilarious. The Play That Goes Wrong is slapstick farce at its best…this will be the best production you see all year" Scenestr

The Play That Goes Wrong

Presented by GMG Productions and Stoddart Entertainment Group by arrangement with Mischief Worldwide Ltd

Sydney Opera House

19 June - 3 August 2025

HoTA, Gold Coast

6 - 10 August 2025

Empire Theatre, Toowoomba

11 - 15 August 2025

Civic Theatre, Newcastle

19 - 31 August 2025

Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne

3 - 21 September 2025

TICKETS ON SALE TUESDAY 26 NOVEMBER. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND DETAILS, PLEASE VISIT WWW.PLAYGOESWRONG.COM

Publicist

Lyn Thurnham, Thurnham Teece

lthurnham@thurnhamteece.com.au; 0418 490 989

B-Roll footage and images from 2022 West End season - https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/5h983fasrxi1gxi0bmbdo/AHJuzgGMe6vsPv0nhystDGg?rlkey=xv8exf1fk74xr65ghnm9i9nxm&st=7ig5sela&dl=0

This Mischief Production of THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG  

was originally produced in the West End of London by Kenny Wax & Stage Presence  

This production is presented under licence from Mischief Worldwide Ltd. 

NOTES FOR EDITORS'

Mischief Theatre Ltd. was founded in 2008 by a group of acting graduates of LAMDA and began as an improvised comedy group. Mischief performs across the UK and internationally with original scripted and improvised work and also has a programme of workshops. The company is owned and controlled by its original members and is led by a creative group and its directors Henry Lewis and Jonathan Sayer.

Mischief shows can currently be watched all over the globe with their award-winning smash hit The Play That Goes Wrong currently playing in London and New York. Following its West End premiere Peter Pan Goes Wrong was nominated for Best New Comedy at the Olivier Awards, and in 2022 made its North American premiere in Canada at the Citadel Theatre, Edmonton. Peter Pan Goes Wrong played a limited engagement on Broadway from March-July 2023 starring the original Mischief company, before transferring to the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. It regularly tours the UK with limited seasons in the West End. Other hit stage comedies include The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, which played in London for four years, and Groan Ups, both currently performing across Europe. Magic Goes Wrong closed in London in March 2022 after a limited engagement, continuing to wow critics and audiences across the UK until the tour ended in May 2022. Returning to their comedy roots Mischief took 3 shows to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2022, Mischief Movie Night and 2 new shows Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle and Charlie Russell Aims To Please. Following sold out success in Edinburgh Charlie Russell Aims To Please performed in London for one night only in December 2022. Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle toured the UK until March 2023, recently played a limited season Off Broadway in New York City and made its West End premiere at the Apollo Theatre in March 2024 before touring the UK. Good Luck, Studio opened October 2022 in the UK at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester before a short tour to Salisbury and Guildford. 

In 2017 Mischief Theatre, Kenny Wax and Stage Presence, the producers of all the company's West End productions, formed Mischief Worldwide Ltd. to manage the rights to all Mischief projects in all artforms. Mischief Worldwide Ltd., based in London, licenses copyrights, trademarks and other Mischief properties to producers, distributors, publishers and others around the world. 

Mischief was first seen on television in the Royal Variety Performance of 2015 and subsequently in two BBC One Christmas specials, Peter Pan Goes Wrong (2016) and A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong (2017). In 2018 Mischief Worldwide Ltd. and the Anthology Group formed Mischief Screen Ltd., an independent TV production company headed by CEO Hilary Strong. Their Royal Television Society award-winning BBC One series, The Goes Wrong Show, aired in December 2019 with a Christmas special, further episodes in early 2020, and a hit Nativity Goes Wrong Christmas special in 2020. The second BBC series aired in September 2021 on BBC One and iPlayer where the gang tackled a Downton-esque family saga and a US-style prison break drama, with predictably disastrous results. All shows can be watched on BBC iPlayer in the UK.

All the companies develop, create and perform under the single name of Mischief. Mischief is developing new works of comedy for theatre, TV, film and other media.

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