Mischief Theatre has done it once more. Their newest production, The Comedy About Spies, now playing at the Noël Coward Theatre, is a laugh-out-loud adventure through 1960s espionage that had the audience roaring from curtain up to final bow.
Penned by Henry Lewis and Henry Shields, this latest addition to the Mischief canon follows the formula to perfection: meticulous physical comedy, a labyrinthine plot that somehow holds together, and performers who commit absolutely to the chaos. The spy setting gives the production a visual vocabulary — gadgets, disguises, trapdoors — that Mischief exploit to devastating comic effect.
Unmissable if you love Mischief. Potentially life-changing if you don't know them yet.
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