RUNAWAY GAME

The Play That Goes Wrong

Dates: 21 April 2017 Friday 21:00 Venue: Zorlu PSM - Drama Stage Price: Full - TRY 60.00 Student - TRY 40.00 There is still something wrong with this play! Mishaps never left us alone, and we couldn't get enough of the misfortunes that made us laugh out loud. The Play That Goes Wrong, which was staged at Zorlu PSM last season and attracted great interest, will continue to meet you in the new Zorlu PSM season! One of the most successful plays from England's famous West End stage in recent times, The Play That Goes Wrong had its premiere in 2014 at the West End Duchess Theater. However, the play's history goes back a bit further. The plot begins when a theatre group called Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society wanted to stage a murder story that took place in the 1920s, bringing endless mishaps to befall the play's characters. As these mishaps push the play's characters into an adventure full of difficulties, audiences of The Play That Goes Wrong find themselves responding to these hilarious mishaps with laughter. Returning last year with the Best Comedy award from the Laurence Olivier Awards and selected by whatsonstage.com as the Best New Comedy in 2014, The Play That Goes Wrong managed to draw renowned names including Tom Hardy and J.J. Abrams to the theatre hall. Let us take a closer look at The Play That Goes Wrong and tell the story of this narrative's journey. - The play, created by the trio of Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, has its roots in a performance staged in the upper room of a pub. - The success of a play performed twice in one night brings the trio, who were working at a call centre, bar and Gourmet Burger Kitchen at the time, into the spotlight. - This success transports The Play That Goes Wrong from a room above a pub to the prestigious West End stage. - Inspired by Michael Green's 1964 book The Art of Coarse Acting, the characters that influenced the play are Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Mr. Bean.