SPRING season 2017 opens at Theatre Royal Bath as West End smash hit comedy The Play That Goes Wrong starts its UK tour at Theatre Royal Bath on Tuesday, January 10.

The Play That Goes Wrong is the West End’s Olivier Award winning box office hit and has proved a huge success with audiences.

Awarded the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, the 2015 Broadway World UK Award for Best New Play, and 2014 Whatsonstage.com Best New Comedy Award, The Play That Goes Wrong is currently enjoying its third year in the West End.

The company has visited Bath twice before, bringing its first UK tour of The Play That Goes Wrong to the Theatre Royal in 2014 and returning in 2015 to present Peter Pan Goes Wrong.

Co-written by Mischief Theatre company members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, this is a highly physical comedy packed with finely-tuned farce and Buster Keaton inspired slapstick delivered with split-second timing and ambitious daring.

The play introduces The ‘Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society’ who are attempting to put on a 1920s’ murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong… does, as the accident prone thespians battle on against all the odds to get to their final curtain call.

The 2017 UK tour of The Play That Goes Wrong is performed by Katie Bernstein as Annie, Jason Callender as Jonathan, Edward Howells as Dennis, Edward Judge as Robert, Alastair Kirton as Max, Meg Mortell as Sandra, Graeme Rooney as Trevor and Patrick Warner as Chris.

Director Mark Bell trained at Ecole Internationale de Theatre, Jacques Lecoq. His credits range from Endgame at Battersea Arts Centre to On the Road to Baghdad at Sadler’s Wells.

Set designs are by Nigel Hook with lighting by Ric Mountjoy and costumes by Roberto Surace.

  •  The Play That Goes Wrong is at Theatre Royal Bath from Tuesday, January 10-Sunday, January 15. Limited availability. For tickets contact the Theatre Royal Bath Box Office on 01225 448844 or visit theatreroyal.org.uk