Movie: The Play That Goes Wrong

Top 8 Billed Cast

Henry Shields
Henry Shields

Chris Bean

Henry Lewis
Henry Lewis

Robert Grove

Jonathan Sayer
Jonathan Sayer

Dennis Tyde

Charlie Russell
Charlie Russell

Sandra Wilkinson

Nancy Zamit
Nancy Zamit

Annie Twilloil

Dave Hearn
Dave Hearn

Max Bennett

Greg Tannahill
Greg Tannahill

Jonathan Harris

Rob Falconer
Rob Falconer

Trevor Watson

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    The Play That Goes Wrong

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    The play in question, at the centre of its conceit, is titled The Murder At Haversham Manor; purporting to have been written by Susie H.K. Brideswell, in reality, a fictional author, and performed by the equally fictional Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, it’s a 1920s murder mystery comedy that opens with the slaying of Charles Haversham on the night of his engagement to Florence Colleymoore. The CPDS are gamely attempting to do it justice, but suffice to say they put the amateur in ‘amateur theatre company’, and the result is slapstick and farce.

  • Release Date

    2012-12-04

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    8

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    English
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