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The Play That Goes Wrong Glasgow Review

ThePlayThatGoesWrongThe Play That Goes Wrong
King’s Theatre, Glasgow

10-15 March 2014

www.mischieftheatre.co.uk

Reviewed by Michelle Macpherson

My husband and I visited the King’s Theatre in Glasgow to see the West End comedy hit “The Play That Goes Wrong” UK Tour!

This comedy play set within a play is an absolute must see! The story is about an amateur dramatic society putting on a play called; “The Murder at Haversham Manor.” A murder mystery set in the 1920s which as the name suggests encounters several mishaps from minor to major scale!

The scene is set as we see the stage manager trying hard to fix a mantelpiece to the wall without much success at the same time, as we find a lazy lighting and sound engineer chasing up his Duran Duran boxset. Little do we know the play hasn’t actually began yet!

The whole play is riddled with wrong lines at the wrong time, prop failures, badly assembled set and interesting behind the scene staff! It had us in stitches from start to finish!

The actors were hilarious! Chris Bean, director and Inspector Carter, only just manages to keep his cool as his team fail miserably at something he has worked hard to put together. Robert Grove as Thomas Colleymoore gets the audiences in fits of laughter with several interesting positions he ends up in trying to hold it all together and that’s only the set! Jonathan Harris as Charles Haversham has to be the funniest “Dead Man” in the theatre as he becomes quite literally the Walking Dead who falls from a height! Dennis Tyde as Perkins, the trusty butler who manages to grossly mispronounce a variety of words! Sandra Wilkinson plays Florence Colleymoore sister of Thomas, Fiancée of Charles, lover of Cecil and seductress of Arthur the gardener! She keeps the audience in hysterics with her over exaggerated sexual nature. Max Bennett plays Cecil Haversham the younger brother of Charles; he pulls the most amazing faces and talks with his hands more than anyone I have ever seen. Annie Twilloil, stage manager who has to become Florence after the original is knocked out goes from a shy, stage frightened girl, to a young woman physically fighting to keep onstage when Florence comes round! Trevor Watson, the lighting sound engineer who barely pays attention to the play missing cues for sound effects, music and line prompts.

It all ends with an interesting twist and the entire set collapsing around and on top of the actors! It may be the funniest thing I have ever seen in the theatre! The Mischief Theatre Group are definitely comedy genius! I seriously don’t think I have ever laughed so much in my life!

Rating: 5/5 thumbs_up

Tickets cost from £11.90 to £32.40 (plus £2.85 transaction fee).

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