I was apprehensive about whether the latest show from Mischief Theatre, of
The PlayThat Goes Wrong and
Lights! Camera! Improvise! would live up to their past work;
within minutes the opening scene, a prison breakout complicated by cheesy wordplay
straight out of a Zucker Bros movie, had proved the company knew what they were
doing when they branched out - slightly - from plays going wrong. Henry Lewis,
Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields return as writers and Mark Bell as director of
The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, cast almost entirely with familiar faces
from their farces and improv shows. The setting is 1950s Minneapolis, and gangster
Mitch (Shields) has fled jail and sought out ex-girlfriend Caprice (Charlie
Russell.) But he's not after a romantic reunion: Her father Mr Freeboys (Lewis) is
the manager of a bank that'll be holding the enormous diamond of a visiting
Hungarian prince in its vaults.
