#the play that goes wrong

[straightplayshowdown]

The Play That Goes Wrong: The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society prepare to stage their new production – the 1920s murder mystery 'Murder at Haversham Manor'. However the set is not yet complete and there is no time to finish it off…..the show must go on! With a murder (and a moving corpse) established from the beginning, the murder mystery gets into full flow. However, the props start to disappear, actors go missing and the set begins to collapse around, and often on, the cast. Mayhem ensues, the acting gets worse, and the set becomes increasingly dangerous, but the company struggle on regardless.

A Doll's House: Nora and Torvald Helmer have a seemingly traditional nineteenth-century marriage. Torvald adores his wife, although he belittles her comprehension of the world. However, Nora has lived with a secret for years. She forged her father’s signature in order to borrow money to take her husband to Italy for recuperation after an illness. Her husband, Torvald, is now in a senior position working at the bank and Nora has been paying off the loan in installments. Yet her secret is about to be revealed when Torvald threatens to fire Nils Krogstad, the man Nora borrowed the money from.

Propaganda under the cut!

The Play That Goes Wrong:

Goofy, silly, I love these characters your honor. A second floor of a set falls down.

Silly! Energetic! Disastrous!

It was fun and I had a good time :)

It's the most incredible straight play of modern time. It's the stereotypical murder mystery, but with Murphy's law applied to the actual production- everything that can go wrong, does. We don't simply have the characters on the stage, we also have the actors playing them, who are all so well developed with their own foibles. From "I'm Chris Bean, the Die-rector" until the set literally falls apart, it's the funniest thing in the world, and you won't stop laughing even after you've left the theatre. More than the humor, though, it makes the theatre, and all its quirks, accessible. It demonstrates how much work goes into making a show happen, both onstage and behind the scenes. That appreciation is something very rarely shown let alone celebrated- and celebrated is the right word here. For even when everything goes wrong, and everything DOES in fact go wrong, they keep going. The show must go on, and it does, and it's wonderful. Also the three guys who star in it wrote it, and they're actually the sweetest guys ever, which is a rarity in the world of the arts.

A Doll's House:

The ending really got me! I wasn't expecting it.

#the play that goes wrong #a doll's house #round 3 #polls #the straight play showdown

[should-david-be-there]

critics are calling this the crossover of the century

#the mischief theatre brainrot is insane help me #watched mind mangler last night its so good!! #would absolutely recommend watching it if u can #the improv is impeccable #and the cast are lovely #mischief theatre #mischief comedy #henry lewis #mind mangler #mind mangler: member of the tragic circle #peter pan goes wrong #the play that goes wrong #comedy about a bank robbery #mischief movie night in #robert grove #alec hardy #broadchurch #campbell bain #crowley #david tennant #david tennant in places he shouldn't be #doctor who #good omens #takin' over the asylum #tenth doctor

[trashpidgeon48]

NEW PROJECT!!!

#mischief theatre #mischief comedy #the play that goes wrong #the goes wrong show

[theywontletmebeprincipal]

cpds. to me

#sanders bullshit #the play that goes wrong #tptgw #cornley polytechnic drama society #annie twilloil #trevor watson #chris bean (director) #robert grove #unsure whose phone this is probably max or jonathan or something #dennis does not strike me as the type to use old school emotes I think he’s an emoji user through n through

[my-random-shit-blog]

I have dug up what may potentially be, one of the oldest pictures of what was later to become, The Play That Goes Wrong

-this pic is dated April 22nd 2008

(From Henry Lewis's Facebook,

which I was NOT stalking....)

#mischief theatre #the play that goes wrong #the cornley drama society #the goes wrong show #henry lewis #cornley polytechnic drama society #robert grove

[emiko-matsui]

to my parents duran duran will always be that cringey band from their teens but to me... to me it will always be the favourite band of that one cunty stage technician <3

#trevor watson #cornley polytechnic drama society #the play that goes wrong #cpds #chris leask #cornley drama society #cds #tptgw #a christmas carol goes wrong #accgw #duran duran

[dolphelecat]

#mischief theatre #henry lewis #robert grove #mischief comedy #cornley polytechnic drama society #cpds #cornley drama society #cds #the play that goes wrong #tptgw #peter pan goes wrong #ppgw #the goes wrong show #🤣 #mind mangler

[sapphic-songbird]

#cornley polytechnic drama society #cornley drama society #the goes wrong show #goes wrong show #mischief theatre #mischief comedy #chris bean #robert grove #jonathan harris #max bennett #trevor watson #play that goes wrong #the play that goes wrong #Cornley lore #Cornley

[reallyhardydraws]

after all these years of being a mischief fan - finally some fanart! hoping to give prints of these to the cast on saturday too 🥰

💖my commission info💖  

#draws #mischief theatre #the play that goes wrong #cornley drama society #cornley polytechnic drama society #if ur in manchester (UK) or near to #the original cast is performing this week! closes on sunday #then they're doing a week in newcastle and that's it

[bumblingest-bee]

earlier this year when i got tickets to the les mis tour, i was looking at the cast list and kept thinking the dude playing javert looked really familiar. then i realized i had seen him as robert grove in the play that goes wrong like six years ago, and let me tell you, it is very hard to take someone seriously as javert when you've seen him doing this

#DONT GET ME WRONG HE WAS REALLY REALLY GOOD!!! #oh i also ended up seeing akron watson (trevor in the same TPTGW cast) as aaron burr in hamilton which was very funny #les mis #the play that goes wrong #mischief theatre #storytime with bee

[flustered-art]

The Peter Pan goes wrong pre-show bits and interactions!

#I love Chris and Trevor tag teaming audience members #Lucy tried to run away at some point #Trevor had to stop her #max kept coming out to say hello #and was shut down time and time again by Trevor #Dennis just sort of wandered for a bit #until Chris got wind and steerd him backstage #a very frustrated half dressed Sandra came out at one point #Annie was the only one who didn’t make an appearance #such fun and interesting interactions! #mischeif #mischeif theater #the play that goes wrong #peter pan goes wrong #mischeif comedy

[should-david-be-there]

david tennant w just a regular, completely normal, definitely not a stooge, audience member/hen party member/international tourist/loud snack eater/stalls row j seat 1 occupant

#i saw mind mangler a second time!!! #this time asked Jonathan to hold tiny david #oh my god i love the mischief guys sm theyre so lovely #made them stuff!! cant remember if i just said that im v tired #tired but happy #mind mangler: member of the tragic circle #mind mangler #mischief movie night in #mischief theatre #mischief comedy #the play that goes wrong #peter pan goes wrong #groan ups #magic goes wrong #the goes wrong show #jonathan sayer #dennis tyde #alec hardy #broadchurch #campbell bain #crowley #david tennant #david tennant in places he shouldn't be #doctor who #good omens #takin' over the asylum #tenth doctor

[trashpidgeon48]

I personally think all shows should have goes wrong versions of them.

#mischief theatre #mischief comedy #the play that goes wrong #the goes wrong show #Would Make everything better

[theywontletmebeprincipal]

I like to imagine that he gets in really heated fights with reviewers online

#I just Know there’s very niche internet drama about how mean he is online #entire cast has to overcompensate n be soooooo niceys to everyone. or Else #sanders bullshit #the play that goes wrong #tptgw #chris bean #cornley polytechnic drama society

[natashasbitxh]

something something Chris Bean as a father figure for Annie and Dennis

#I want this to be fanon #If it is I want it more #the goes wrong universe #the goes wrong show #peter pan goes wrong #the play that goes wrong #mischief comedy #mischief theatre #mischief #chris bean #dennis tyde #annie twilloil

[reallyhardy]

i miss the cornley drama society!!!

#loren talks #mischief theatre #the play that goes wrong #the goes wrong show #cornley drama society #i know there was that post from nancys insta a lil while back with MOST of them in it #i have this feeling like they won't do any more cornley but i really feel like cornley needs one last send off and the #then i would be fine with it #but i need that one last big thing