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#5starfun from @MischiefComedy @TheatreRoyalNew #theplaythatgoeswrong

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5* Fun At The Theatre Royal The Play That Goes Wrong Newcastle Theatre Royal Until Saturday 21 st January 2017 With the precision of a classic Harold Lloyd movie, The Play That Goes Wrong is one of the funniest shows around. This was our second time and that gave us a chance to catch the jokes that we missed first time around when we were laughing too much. Mischief Theatre have produced a play within a play. The “Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society” attempt to put on a 1920s murder mystery called The Murder At Haversham Manor , but they don’t have a great track record. A lack of funding and volunteers has resulted in scaled down shows. Snow White doesn’t need 7 dwarves. Jason Callender is Jonathan, the straight man, who desperately wants the production to succeed after previous disasters such as James and the Peach when they couldn’t afford a giant peach…which became James, Where Is Your Peach? when the peach became mouldy. This is a chance to e