MISCHIEF, the multi award-winning team behind The Play That Goes Wrong, are rewriting ancient history with their first-ever musical. Hailed as “the UK’s funniest theatre company” by LBC Radio, the comedy masterminds bring their latest production ‘Thespians’ to Swindon’s Wyvern Theatre from 2–6 June.
Written by Jonathan Sayer (co-writer of The Play That Goes Wrong, Peter Pan Goes Wrong and The Comedy About A Bank Robbery) and Ed Zanders (musical director Mischief Movie Night), Thespians transports the audience back to 534 BC, where, on Greece’s smallest island, a brave band of bards is battling to avoid defeat in a nationwide prayer competition set up by a thin-skinned tyrant. The odds couldn’t be higher – the loser faces the death sentence, and things are not looking good for the islanders… until… Thespis accidentally invents acting, leading to the world’s first play and the birth of theatre as we know it! . If you thought something funny happened on the way to the forum, wait until you hear what happened en route to the amphitheatre! Do not miss MISCHIEF’s first musical about the power of walking a greek mile in someone else’s sandals.
The cast for this uplifting Grecian musical comedy romp comprises Allie Dart (Unfortunate; The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch – The Other Palace/The Lowry and UK Tour, The Comedy About Spies – Noël Coward Theatre, West End) as Rhapsodes/Dance Captain; Ashley Tucker (Christmas Carol Goes Wrong – UK tour, Pride & Prejudice* (*Sort Of )and Baskerville – Vienna’s English Theatre) as part of the ensemble; Claire-Marie Hall (Operation Mincemeat – Broadway/West End, Les Misérables – West End) as Poly; Curtis Patrick (Young Frankenstein – Hope Mill Theatre, A Streetcar Named Desire – Noël Coward Theatre) as part of the ensemble; James Spence (Unfortunate; The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch – The Other Palace/The Lowry) as Thespis; Josh Patel-Foster (Oliver! – Gielgud Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre, Roman Holiday – Theatre Royal Bath) as part of the ensemble; Luke Latchman (Now That’s What I Call A Musical – UK Tour; Sunset Boulevard – Savoy Theatre) as Atlas; Marc Pickering (The Play What I Wrote – Devonshire Park Theatre, Bleak Expectations – Criterion Theatre) as Adonis; Matt Cavendish (The Comedy About Spies – West End, Christmas Carol Goes Wrong – West End) as Bard; Mia Jerome (The Manningtree Witches – Mercury Theatre Colchester, Romeo & Juliet – Jamie Lloyd Company) as Melampus and Rhys Taylor (Millennials – The Other Palace; Everybody’s Talking About Jamie UK Tour) as The Tyrant.
Thespians is at the Wyvern Theatre, Swindon from Tuesday 2nd – Saturday 6th June with tickets available here https://trafalgartickets.com/wyvern-theatre-swindon/en-GB/event/musical/thespians-tickets .
