The Play That Goes Wrong (2021 film)

> Once Upon a Time, in a place of make believe, there was a little theater company, That Couldn't
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## The Play That Goes Wrong (2021 film)

### **Produced by**

J.J. Abrams
Stephen De Greyonne
Joshua Smithson
Aki Yamagata
Gumball Watterson
Charlie Brown
Lincoln Loud
Clyde McBride
Zach Gurdle
Liam Hunnicutt
Rusty Spokes
Byron Groening and Cici Wu
Stella Zhau
Paula Price
Peppermint Patty
Karen Beecher

### **Screenplay by**

Henry Lewis
Jonathan Sayer
Henry Shields

### **Story by**

Lincoln Loud
Clyde McBride
Liam Hunnicutt
Byron Groening and Cici Wu
Paula Price

### **Based on**

The Play That Goes Wrong by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields

### **Production company(s)**

Regency Enterprises
Wilson Pictures
EasternScreen Pictures
Watterson/Loud/Brown Productions
Stunt Bee Entertainment
Bad Robot Productions
Mischief Theatre Company

### **Box office**

$463 million

***The Play That Goes Wrong*** is a 2021 live action slapstick comedy movie directed by Jade Wilson based off of the 2012-present play. It was released on 2021.

## Plot

Before the play starts the audience see the backstage staff doing last-minute adjustments to the set, including trying to mend a broken mantelpiece and find a dog that has run off.

The fictitious Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, fresh from such hits as The Lion and The Wardrobe, Cat, and James and the Peach (or James, Where's your Peach?), has received a substantial bequest and is putting on a performance of The Murder at Haversham Manor – a 1920s murder mystery play, similar to The Mousetrap, which has the right number of parts for the members. The script was written by the fictitious Susie H. K. Brideswell. During the performance, a play within a play, a plethora of disasters befall the cast, including doors sticking, props falling from the walls, and floors collapsing. Cast members are seen misplacing props, forgetting lines (in one scene, an actor repeats an earlier line of dialogue and causes the dialogue sequence triggered by that line to be repeated, ever more frenetically, several times), missing cues, breaking character, having to drink white spirit instead of whisky (paint thinner in the U.S. production), mispronouncing words, stepping on fingers, being hidden in a grandfather clock, and being manhandled off stage, with one cast member being knocked unconscious and her replacement (and the group technician) refusing to yield when she returns. The climax is a tribute to a scene in Buster Keaton's film Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928), when virtually the whole of the remaining set collapses.

## Cast

* Matt Harrington as Chris Bean
* Brent Bateman as Jonathan Harris
* Max FitzRoy-Stone as Robert Grove
* Bartley Booz as Dennis Tyde
* Maggie Weston as Sandra Wilkinson
* Matt Walker as Max Bennett
* Ryan Vincent Anderson as Trevor Watson
* Bianca Horn as Annie Twilloil

## Cameos

* Lincoln Loud as himself
* Clyde McBride as himself
* Sadie Miller as herself
* Zach Gurdle as himself
* Liam Hunnicutt as himself
* Rusty Spokes as himself
* Bryan Groening as himself
* Byron Groening as himself
* Cici Wu as herself
* Stella Zhau as herself
* Peppermint Patty as herself
* Marcie Reynolds as herself
* Jordan Rosato-Groening as herself
* Chloe Dupain as herself
* Polly Pain as herself
* Chandler McCann as himself
* Trent Walker as himself
* Jadon Kosher as himself
* Paula Price as herself
* Hannah DeLisle as herself
* Jeanne Kanver as herself
* Bridget Kument as herself
* Daniella Hurt as herself
* Madeline Mitchell as herself
* Daisy Wilcox as herself
* Lori Loud as herself
* Carol Pingrey as herself
* Ronnie Anne Santiago as herself
* Sid Chang as herself
* Nikki Coughlin as herself
* Casey Cabano as himself
* Sameer Tjinder as himself
* Jade Wilson as herself
* Karen Beecher as herself
* Kathy "With A K" Williams as herself
* Felicity as herself
* Diving Belle as herself
* Krissa Wilson as herself
* Enid Mettle as herself

## Trivia

* Jade Wilson says "The Play That Goes Wrong will be the next movie from Wilson Pictures, in association with Regency Enterprises and my Kids of the Glee Club from Royal Woods Middle School except Paula, What's So hard about that?"
* This is the first Regency Enterprises films that was produced by Wilson Pictures