The Play That Goes Wrong

The Longest Running Comedy in the West End

Still disrupting the West End, the award-winning international smash-hit The Play That Goes Wrong continues to tickle audiences at the Duchess Theatre.

You all know the classic whodunnit story, there has been a murder at a country manor and an inspector is set on the case to find who the culprit is. However, when this plot is given to the accident-prone thespians at The Cornley Drama Society, everything that can go wrong… does!

The actors and crew battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! Do you ever find out who murdered Charles Haversham? You’ll have to see for yourself!

Experience total mayhem and enjoy the perfect slice of escapist comedy, guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter.

Booking Until

Sunday 30 August 2026

Tickets From

£20

Running Time

2hrs including an interval

Age Guidance

8+

★★★★★

‘I feared I was going to hyperventilate’

DAILY MAIL
★★★★

‘A joyous show builds to a delirious climax’

FINANCIAL TIMES
★★★★

‘A triumph of split second timing’

METRO
★★★★

‘Exquisitely choreographed mayhem’

THE INDEPENDENT

‘A masterpiece of malfunction’

THE TIMES

‘A gut-busting hit’

NEW YORK TIMES

‘Ridiculously funny’

THE TIMES

‘We laughed until the tears ran down our faces’

JOANNA LUMLEY

‘Best thing we’ve ever seen’

CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN

‘Brilliant! Just brilliant! I haven’t laughed so hard for aaaaaages’

ANT & DEC

‘I actually peed my pants…’

CATE BLANCHETT

Robert Jackson

Robert

Robert trained at The Arts Educational Schools, London.

Theatre credits include: Julius Caesar (Royal Shakespeare Company); Brief Encounter (Stephen Joseph Theatre/Theatre By The Lake/Octagon Theatre, UK Theatre Award Nomination, Best Supporting Performance); The Glee Club (Out Of Joint/The Kiln Theatre); She Ventures and He Wins (The Young Vic); Kiss Me Kate (The Watermill Theatre); Alice In Wonderland (Stephen Joseph Theatre); Around The World In 80 Days, Peter Pan, Gulliver’s Travels, Summer Holiday, A Christmas Carol, The Threepenny Opera, The Railway Children (The Octagon Theatre, Bolton); Stickman (UK/International Tour); Treasure Island (Creation Theatre, Oxford); Parkway Dreams, The Long Life & Great Good Fortune of John Clare (Eastern Angles); Progress, The Green Children (Red Rose Chain, Ipswich); The Sonnet Walk (Shakespeare’s Globe); Lido (Southwark Playhouse); Opening Doors (Soho Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Kent’s Cavern, Torquay);  The Ripper (Charing Cross Theatre); Sandbox (Waterloo East Theatre).

Television and film credits include: The Other One (BBC/Tiger Aspect); Coronation Street (ITV); English In Mind (CUP).

Voiceover work includes: Tesco Mobile, LinkedIn, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, British Gas & QVC.

Jack Hardwick

Jack Hardwick

Chris

Jack trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Theatre credits include: The Bodyguard (UK Tour); The Doctor (Adelaide Festival, Australia – Almeida transfer); The Importance of Being Earnest (Octagon Theatre); The Inheritance (Nöel Coward Theatre); Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Wyndham’s Theatre & US Tour); Private Lives (UK Tour); The Railway Children (King’s Cross Theatre); Battis Boy (Arcola Theatre); Blood Wedding (Courtyard Theatre); Revenger’s Tragedy (Hoxton Hall); Collaborators (National Theatre); Quality Street (Finborough Theatre); The Tempest (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory).

Television and film credits include: Casualty (BBC); Misfits (E4/Channel 4); Law and Order: UK (ITV); Amazon Alexa Advert; Tom Walker My Way Music Video; The Suit Weareth The Man (ChampDog Films); Verona (Mirror Productions).

Mitesh Soni

Mitesh Soni

Dennis

Mitesh trained at the Guildford School of Acting.

Theatre credits include: Flute/Thisbe in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (RSC/Barbican);  Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol (RSC); Arthur in The Play What I Wrote (Birmingham Rep/UK Tour); Collins in Autobiography of a Cad (Watermill); Charley/Noah in Oliver Twist (Leeds Playhouse); Hazy in Jack And The Beanstalk (Oldham Coliseum); Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, Alice/Nym in Henry V, Trinculo in The Tempest, Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing, Roger in Swallows & Amazons (Chester, Storyhouse); Spit in The Big Corner, Abdul in East Is East, Fortinbras in Hamlet (Octagon, Bolton); Faisal in Combustion (Arcola Theatre/Tara UK Tour); Banquo in Macbeth (Tara Arts/UK Tour); Paris/Prince in Romeo & Juliet (National Theatre); Ali Baba in Arabian Nights (Manchester Library Theatre); Billy in The Rise & Fall of Little Voice (Dukes, Lancaster); Tootles in Peter Pan (New Vic Stoke); Etash in Rafta Rafta (Octagon Bolton/New Vic Stoke).

Television credits include: Juice (BBC); Hollyoaks (Channel 4); Eastenders (BBC); Ted’s Top Ten (ITV); Silent Witness (BBC); The Pact (BBC); The Agency (Happy Tramp); Run (Hulu); Threesome (Comedy Central); The Canterbury Tales (BBC).

Film credits include: A Christmas No.1 (Sky Cinema); Medusa Deluxe (BBC); Mogul Mowgli (Pulse Films/BBC Film); Rise of The Footsoldier 2 (Carnaby International); Syriana (Warner Bros).

Awards: Asian Media Awards – Best Production (Combustion); Manchester Theatre Awards    Best Ensemble (Arabian Nights).

Ronnie Yorke

Trevor

Ronnie trained at The Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts. During his training, Ronnie was selected to perform at the Sam Wanamaker Festival 2017 at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre playing Richard III.

Theatre credits include: Richard Burbage in Will, or Eight Lost Years of Young Shakespeare’s Life (Rose Playhouse, Off Westend Stage Award Nomination for Best Supporting Male); Ferdinand in The Tempest (The Lord Chamberlains Men UK & Europe Tour); Pete in Not Quite Jerusalem (Finborough Theatre); The title role in Macbeth (The Lord Chamberlains Men UK & Europe Tour); Mickah in The Commitments (UK & Ireland Tour)

Television credits include: Dino in Banged Up Abroad (Raw TV); Eastenders (BBC); Currently unannounced character in Fable 4 (Playground Games); Archie Hargrove in The Jury (Channel 4).

Tom Wainwright

Tom Wainwright

Max

Tom trained at The Academy of Live & Recorded Arts.

Theatre credits include: Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle (UK Tour; Apollo Theatre, West End); Mind Mangler: A Night of Tragic Illusion (New York, Off-Broadway);  Magic Goes Wrong (Apollo Theatre, West End); Frankenstein (TrueStory Theatre); Dracula (TrueStory Theatre); A Christmas Carol (The Core); The Three Musketeers (Kenton Theatre).
Television and film credits include: Royal Mob (Sky TV); Doctors (BBC); Dirty God (BBC Films).

Jonty Peach

Jonathan

Jonty Peach grew up in Portsmouth and trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama where he received the Andrew Lloyd Webber Scholarship award.

Theatre credits include: Operation Mincemeat (1st Cover Hester/2nd Cover Charles, Fortune Theatre); Matty in SuperYou In Concert (Lyric Theatre); Steve Harrington & Others in Stranger Sings! (The Vaults); Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Reading Rep); Romeo in Romeo & Juliet (Duke’s Theatre Company).

Film credits include: Corporal Hodges in Nuremberg (Titan Media).

Adverts include: Snickers (Burningreel); Amazon (Formidable).

Other training includes: NYMT 2016 (The world premiere of The Battle Of Boat

Jonty is massively grateful to his agent, friends, and family for all their support.

Charlotte Scott

Charlotte Scott

Sandra

Charlotte is originally from Norwich and went on to train professionally at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts graduating with a BA (Hons) in Musical Theatre.

West End credits include: Dance Captain and Cover Sarah Brown in Guys and Dolls (Bridge Theatre); Cover Nellie Forbush in South Pacific (Sadler’s Wells); Swing in the original cast of Back to the Future; Acrobat and Cover Miss Honey and Mrs Wormwood in Matilda (RSC); Assistant Dance Captain and Cover Hope in Urinetown (St. James Theatre); Cover Kathy Seldon in Singin’ In The Rain (Palace Theatre); Cover Glinda and Nessarose in Wicked (Apollo Victoria Theatre); The Last Tango (Phoenix Theatre).

Other theatre credits include: Maggie Winslow in A Chorus Line (Leicester Curve); Glinda in The Wizard of Oz (Blackpool Opera House); Me and My Girl (Chichester Festival Theatre); Jellylorum and Understudy Grizabella in Cats (International Tour); The Rocky Horror Show (UK Tour); Fame (UK Tour); Footloose (UK Tour); Jemima and Rumpleteaser in Cats (European Tour).

Izzy Edumunds Clarke

Izzy Edmunds-Clarke

Annie

Izzy Edmunds-Clarke is originally from Suffolk. She trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.

Credits include: Oh What a Lovely War (Mountview); Romeo and Juliet (Mountview); Emilia (Mountview); Tiny Plays, Big Ideas Workshop (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); The Memory of Snow Workshop (MK Gallery); Dorothy: Back to Oz Rehearsed Reading (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds).
The Play That Goes Wrong is Izzy’s professional and West End Debut and she’s super excited to be joining the Mischief team!

Ed Shamwana

Ed Shamwana

Understudy

Ed trained at the Guildford School of Acting.

Theatre credits include: Steve in Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle (Mischief Theatre).

Other credits include: Rick, Camper & Ensemble in Away (GSA); Adam in The Antipodes (GSA); The Malarkey Chronicles Workshop; Alexander Ignatevich Vershinin in Three Sisters Workshop (GSA), 3,7,8 in Concord Floral Workshop (GSA).

Represented by Michelle Blair Management.
@Edshamwana

Jake Burgum

Jake Burgum

Understudy

Jake is a South Welsh actor that trained at the Guildhall School. Initially understudying David Oakes in Venus in Fur at the Haymarket Theatre, he has gone on to appear in a number of BBC, other stage productions and has recently finished filming for the upcoming BBC series The Guest.

Theatre credits include: Venus in Fur (West End); The Hound Of The Baskervilles (Germany Tour); Peter Pan Goes Wrong (UK Tour).

Television, film, and audio credits include: War Gamers (Sky History); Bang (BBC Wales); Doctors (BBC); The Guest (BBC); Ending (LFA); Albion in A King Arthur Story (Audible).

Alex Blackie

Alex Blackie

Understudy

Alex trained at ALRA South (Academy of Live & Recorded Arts). Graduating in 2020, he spent the next few months doing virtual quizzes and baking banana bread.

Theatre credits include: Play Ai (Camden Fringe); News Revue (Canal Café Theatre); Nell Gwynn (ALRA); Spring Awakening (ALRA); Blank (ALRA).
Alex is thrilled to be making his West End debut in The Play That Goes Wrong and he’d like to thank his family, friends, and cats for their unwavering love and support.

Louise Hoare

Louise Hoare

Understudy

Louise trained at LAMDA.

Theatre credits include: A Sherlock Carol (Marylebone Theatre); Snowflakes (Park Theatre); Skin Tight (Hope Theatre); Fever Pitch (Hope Theatre); Women of Paradise (Trafalgar Studios); Grafting (Rose Theatre); Tacenda (Vaults Festival).

Other credits include: Dancer in SAS: Rogue Heroes (BBC); Dancer in Belgravia (ITV); The Ballalloes (Sony Europa).

She can’t wait to cause some mischief at the Manor this year with the rest of the gang.

Kitty Devlin

Kitty Devlin

Understudy

Television credits include: Miss Stowell in Bridgerton (Netflix); The Third Day (Sky/Plan B).

Theatre credits include: The Intrusion (Bric à Brac Theatre, Told by an Idiot, UK Tour); Various shows (Bric à Brac Theatre); Glass Ceiling Beneath The Stars (Edinburgh Fringe); The Lost Lending Library (Punchdrunk Enrichment).

Kitty is a founding member of Bric à Brac Theatre who met while training together at Jacques Lecoq. She is an Associate Artist with Punchdrunk Enrichment, after previously being their Associate Director, working with them both as an actor and director. She is training in British Sign Language (BSL) and is currently qualified to Level 4.

Henry Lewis

Author

Jonathan Sayer

Author

Henry Shields

Author

Mark Bell

Director

Nigel Hook

Designer

Ric Mountjoy

Lighting

Sean Turner

Associate Director

Roberto Surace

Costume Designer

Rob Falconer

Original Music

Andy Johnson

Sound Designer

Amy Milburn

Associate Director

Lexie Ward

Resident Director

Upcoming Performances:

Access Seating:

For all performances, you can select up to two seats at our discounted access rate of 50% off per person. These include:

  • Wheelchair park and companion seats
  • End-of-aisle seating
  • Central row seating

Step-free access to the Stalls is via a Domino Zonzini stair climber.



To make a wheelchair transfer booking, purchase more than two tickets or to discuss your seating requirements further, please contact our Access team on 0330 333 4815 or [email protected].

Groups Rate (10+ Tickets)

Rate: £37 per ticket (reduced from £72.50 – £67.50)
Seats: Stalls & Dress Circle
Valid For: Tuesday – Friday & Sunday evening performances
Exclusion Dates: 28 Jul – 31 Aug, 27 Oct – 9 Nov, 22 Dec 2025 – 4 Jan 2026, 16 Feb – 22 Feb 2026, 30 Mar – 12 Apr 2026, 25 May – 31 May 2026, and 24 Jul – 30 Aug 2026


Groups Rate (25+ Tickets)

Rate: £32.50 per ticket (reduced from £72.50 – £67.50)
Seats: Stalls & Dress Circle
Valid For: Tuesday – Friday & Sunday evening performances
Exclusion Dates: 28 Jul – 31 Aug, 27 Oct – 9 Nov, 22 Dec 2025 – 4 Jan 2026, 16 Feb – 22 Feb 2026, 30 Mar – 12 Apr 2026, 25 May – 31 May 2026, and 24 Jul – 30 Aug 2026

 

Full price groups (10+) available on all performances.

Schools & Education Rate (10+ Tickets)

Rate: £23 per ticket (reduced from £72.50 – £67.50 / £60 – £55), 1 free teacher ticket for every 10 students
Seats: Stalls & Dress Circle
Valid For: Tuesday – Thursday performances
Exclusion Dates: 28 Jul – 31 Aug, 27 Oct – 9 Nov, 22 Dec 2025 – 4 Jan 2026, 16 Feb – 22 Feb 2026, 30 Mar – 12 Apr 2026, 25 May – 31 May 2026, and 24 Jul – 30 Aug 2026

Duchess Theatre

3-5 Catherine Street, London, WC2B 5LA

Duchess Theatre

3-5 Catherine Street, London, WC2B 5LA

Booking Until

Sunday 30 August 2026

Tickets From

£20

Running Time

2hrs including an interval

Age Guidance

8+

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