The Comedy About Spies
Closing: August 03, 2025The Comedy About Spies - 2025 West End History , Info & More
Noel Coward Theatre
85-88 St Martin's Ln, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4AP, United Kingdom London
Everybody’s hot for Mischief’s new action-packed thriller THE COMEDY ABOUT SPIES, gripping audiences with laughter from April 2025 at the Noël Coward Theatre. The multi award-winning team behind The Play That Goes Wrong and The Comedy About a Bank Robbery step into 1960s London in this hilarious spy caper full of misunderstanding, miscommunication, and mistaken identity.
A rogue British agent steals plans for a top-secret new weapon. Spies from the CIA and the KGB assemble at London’s Piccadilly Hotel to track down the British mole and obtain the file. When a young British couple and an older actor auditioning for the title role in the first James Bond film check into the hotel, the stakes reach boiling point in this riotous world of Cold War farce.
__Assisted Performances:__
Audio Described - 6 June, 7:30pm
Captioned - 15 August, 2:30pm
BSL - 22 June, 2:30pm
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This level of stupidity takes real talent
8 / 10
In the midst of this invitation to bungle – involving covert bugged radios, overt communication failures and frantic excuses – stand the sweetly hapless figure of Shields’s Bernard Wright, a baker, vainly trying to propose to his girlfriend (Adele James’s Rosemary) and Lewis’s Douglas Woodbead, a loudly roaring failed actor, preparing to audition for James Bond. No less cherishable are Charlie Russell and Chris Leask as the only too conspicuous Russkies, while Dave Hearn and Nancy Zamit impress as the clueless (and, ludicrously, related) Yanks. In a knowingly wearying second half, the plot thickens with spiralling double-crossing guaranteed to have everyone, not just the tourists, struggling to keep up. I’d say it takes near genius to fashion something this incorrigibly goofy.
Bungling, buffoonish hilarity
8 / 10
Mischief’s artistic director, Lewis co-wrote the script with Wright, and there are many of their fellow founders – who all studied together at LAMDA – and trusted regulars from previous shows in the cast. Dave Hearn’s elastic Lance, Chris Leask’s strangulated Sergei and Greg Tannahill’s fey hotel manager all delight – Tannahill also choreographs the fights. Nancy Zamit and Charlie Russell bring coarser grain to the roles of Lance’s mother Janet and Sergei’s eye-rolling partner Elena. James, a newcomer to the Mischief fold, plays it admirably straight as Rosemary. Director Matt DiCarlo keeps the pace up and David Farley’s simple set nicely recalls the backdrops of 1960s animations.
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by Stephi Wild - July 18, 2025
As Mischief's critically acclaimed and hilarious new caper The Comedy About Spies heads to its final West End performance, three performances of the show will be recorded live at London's Noël Coward Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - May 14, 2025
Mischief’s new action-packed thriller The Comedy About Spies is gripping audiences with laughter at the Noël Coward Theatre. The multi award-winning team behind The Play That Goes Wrong and The Comedy About a Bank Robbery step into 1960s London in this hilarious spy caper full of misunderstanding, miscommunication, and mistaken identity.
by Franco Milazzo - May 13, 2025
Has there been a British comedy franchise as successful as Mischief’s since the days of the Carry On films? While The Play That Goes Wrong is still going strong in the West End and New York, their latest The Comedy About Spies rolls off the conveyor belt at the Noël Coward Theatre.
by Stephi Wild - April 15, 2025
The first production images have been released from the World Premiere of Mischief’s The Comedy About Spies, which began previews last night at the Noël Coward Theatre. Check out the photos here!
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 11, 2025
You can now get a first look inside rehearsals for Mischief’s brand new West End show, The Comedy About Spies. Learn more about the production and see how to purchase tickets.
by Stephi Wild - February 19, 2025
An extra 30,000 tickets for Mischief's brand new West End show, The Comedy About Spies have been released, with the show extended through Summer 2025 by four weeks due to phenomenal demand.
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