By Team ASR
SAN FRANCISCO, CA (12 August 2024) — San Francisco Playhouse kicks off its 2024-25 season with the Olivier Award-winning comedy The Play That Goes Wrong.
This fast-paced farce packed with inventive theatricality finds the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society on the opening night of its newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor.
As the incompetent theatre troupe attempts to stage this 1920s murder mystery, their production devolves into madcap mayhem. Lost props, forgotten lines, and poorly constructed scenery conspire against the clumsy cast, who fight for the show to make it to the final curtain call.
” … The New York Times deemed it a “gut-busting hit …”
Entertainment Weekly said, “The Play That Goes Wrong is just right: a ridiculously entertaining disaster.” The New York Times deemed it a “gut-busting hit. One of those breakneck exercises in idiocy that make you laugh till you cry. It starts off punch-drunk and just keeps getting drunker.”
San Francisco Playhouse Producing Director and co-founder Susi Damilano, who has staged sidesplitting spoofs at the Playhouse, including Noises Off, Clue, and most recently, The 39 Steps, helms this hilarious whodunit.
The Play That Goes Wrong will perform at San Francisco Playhouse 450, Post Street. For tickets ($35-$135) and more information:
Web: sfplayhouse.org
Phone: (415) 677-9596
…and tell ’em Aisle Seat Review sent you!
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