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Theatre

If you have teenage boys who loathe the very idea of theatre, send them to The Play That Goes Wrong

Plus: a new play set in south Wales that overuses Alan Bennett’s trick of forcing laughs by getting senior characters to swear

20 September 2014

9:00 AM

20 September 2014

9:00 AM

The Play That Goes Wrong

Duchess, until 1 February 2015

Land of Our Fathers

Trafalgar 2, booking until 4 October

It’s taken a while but here it is. The Play That Goes Wrong is like Noises Off, but simpler. Michael Frayn’s cumbersome backstage farce asked us to follow the actors’ personal stories as well as their on-stage foul-ups, and the surfeit of detail proved a bit of a brain-scrambler. This is a badly rehearsed thriller played by useless amateurs on a disintegrating set.

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