Looking for some light-hearted fun, I pushed Jan into going to see The Play That Goes Wrong at the Sydney Theatre Company. We both thought it might be a bit too silly, but it was very, very good.
Here’s the blurb: Playing to packed houses in the West End and Broadway, the Olivier Award-winning The Play That Goes Wrong follows a group of amateur actors performing a murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong does! The accident-prone thespians battle on against all the odds to get to their final curtain call with hilarious consequences!
It wasn’t just slapstick, pratfalls and collapsing scenery, it was a very well-written and well-acted play. The comic timing was spot-on and the “accidents” were not always obvious. It also looked really dangerous for the actors as they were apparently knocked out, dragged around and smacked by opening doors.