Buckinghamshire actor hails 10 years of The Play That Goes Wrong

It was first performed at The Old Red Lion, a 60-seat fringe theatre in Islington, London, with the writers not thinking it would go much further.

“We thought that it would maybe have a little bit of a future because people did seem to enjoy it but we never really thought it would go into the West End so to be celebrating ten years [there] is mad,” Lewis said.

During subsequent runs at the Edinburgh Festival and a national tour the writers “tweaked it and tidied it up”, Lewis said, so that by the time they got to the West End they had something that was “really kind of finely tuned”.

“The show begins as soon as you walk into the theatre,” Lewis said, “the stage manager is looking for a missing dog, and the director is walking round greeting the audience so straight away you’re immersed in the world of the Cornley University Drama Society.

“There’s farce, there’s lots of slapstick, lots of big visual jokes, it’s a really, really laugh out loud, fun couple of hours.”