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The Play That Goes Wrong, Mischief’s Olivier Award-winning global hit, will crash into theatres across New Zealand in 2025 to celebrate its 10th anniversary! This box-office smash has been leaving audiences in stitches worldwide, and now it’s coming back with a bang, featuring an all-new cast of chaos-loving performers.
Opening in New Zealand April 2025, this tour will bring the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society’s disastrous attempt at a 1920s murder mystery to theatres across the country. The slapstick comedy follows a troupe of accident-prone thespians who, as the title suggests, endure every possible mishap in their relentless quest to make it to the final curtain. Hilarity and calamity ensue as everything that can go wrong, does!
Since its debut in London’s West End, The Play That Goes Wrong has delighted audiences across more than 35 countries and played to over two million people. Awarded the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy and a Tony Award for its Broadway run, the play is now celebrating 10 years of gut-busting laughs.
Produced by GMG Productions and Stoddart Entertainment Group Pty Ltd, this production is directed by Amy Milburn (Associate Director of The Play That Goes Wrong in London’s West End. Resident Director for The Bridge Theatre’s Olivier-nominated production of Guys & Dolls), with original direction by Mark Bell, set designs by Nigel Hook, costumes by Roberto Surace, lighting by Ric Mountjoy, and sound design by Andy Johnson.
With its sidesplitting physical comedy and endless surprises, The Play That Goes Wrong is a must-see for anyone who loves a good laugh – or just wants to witness the ultimate theatrical disaster! Don’t miss your chance to see the world’s funniest play when it tours New Zealand in 2025.
For tickets and more information, visit playgoeswrong.com.au
MISCHIEF
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.
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