‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ review
6 / 10
Trying to describe why a comedy strikes you as unfunny is about as fruitless as trying to describe why it had you in stitches. 'The Play That Goes Wrong' falls squarely into the category of things that you'll like if you like that sort of thing. (See: The Three Stooges, performance art involving self-mutilation, cruises aboard megaships.) I can't say I had to climb over patrons rolling in the aisles as I made my way out of the theater, but duty demands that I report that portions of the audience appeared to find the antics worthy of exercising their diaphragm muscles, even as the authors return to the shallow waters of their comic well repeatedly. (A joke about whiskey being replaced, for no logical reason, with a more toxic brew, causing the actors to sputter and spew, was worn threadbare well before intermission.)
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