“The Play That Goes Wrong” – ASU Gammage
Theater Review – March 21, 2019
BRITISH FARCE MAY HAVE TICKLED LONDON AUDIENCES IT DOESN’T WORK HERE
“THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG”
Broadway Across America – Arizona, ASU Gammage
Tempe, AZ
“The Play That Goes Wrong” is a typical British farcical comedy which American audiences may find mildly amusing but it rarely creates the wild guffaws like it did for British theatergoers. But American comedies often fall flat in London so it says something about what audiences on both sides of the Atlantic like.
While on a London holiday, I caught up with the long-running British comedy. “The Play That Goes Wrong” is still going strong … Continue Reading