Show Plot The Play That Goes Wrong

Authors: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields

Time Period:  The present day during an evening opening-night performance/ 1922 play within a play

Setting: The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society auditorium/A grand, dilapidated country manor drawing-room

Summary: A notoriously inept amateur group is mounting their most ambitious production to date: a 1920s murder mystery titled The Murder at Haversham Manor. The play centers on the mysterious death of Charles Haversham. Right from the opening moments, everything goes wrong: props go missing, doors won't open, lines are forgotten, and actors are knocked unconscious or replaced by unprepared crew members.  The cast and crew battle through every imaginable technical and human error, trying to preserve the illusion of theatre until the entire set literally disintegrates around them in a chaotic grand finale.