Smash-Hit West End Comedy THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Comes to Coventry

The West End's Olivier Award winning box office hit, The Play That Goes Wrong will visit Coventry's Belgrade Theatre on a major national tour this January, performed by Mischief Theatre.

Awarded the 2014 Whatsonstage.com Best New Comedy and the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, The Play That Goes Wrong has also recently enjoyed a second year in the West End, where it played to sold-out houses.

It is a remarkable rags-to-riches story for a play which started life at a London fringe venue with only four paying members of the public at the first performance, and has since played to an audience of over a quarter of a million.

The Producer Kenny Wax says, "The Play That Goes Wrong has been licensed to 25 countries, currently playing in Japan, Hungary and Paris - as well as in London. It goes to prove that audiences come to the theatre to be entertained and that the fun to be had in watching brilliantly plotted physical comedy is universal."

Co-written by Mischief Theatre company members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, The Play That Goes Wrong is a highly physical comedy packed with finely-tuned farce and Buster Keaton inspired slapstick delivered with split-second timing and ambitious daring.

The play 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.

Mischief Theatre 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. They have since performed across the UK and internationally with improvised and original scripted work.

Their other productions include The Comedy About A Bank Robbery and Peter Pan Goes Wrong which was broadcast on BBC One over the Christmas period, narrated by Belgrade Theatre alumnus David Suchet and is still available to watch on BBC iPlayer.

The Play That Goes Wrong runs on the Belgrade Theatre's Main Stage from Mon 23 to Sat 28 Jan. Tickets are selling fast for this laugh out loud comedy and the Belgrade has added an extra performance date to the run due to popular demand.

Tickets are available by calling the Belgrade Box Office team on 024 7655 3055 or via www.belgrade.co.uk.