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The Comedy About Spies – Adelphi Theatre
London

The Comedy About Spies – Adelphi Theatre

There are productions that make you smile, productions that make you laugh, and then there are those rare productions when “surrender” is the only option. ‘The Comedy About Spies’ belongs firmly in the latter category. Mischief Comedy’s latest theatrical assault on the funny bone is riotously entertaining, breathtakingly well executed and, quite simply, one of the funniest shows I have seen in a very long time. Written by Henry Lewis and Henry Shields, the play takes the familiar world of the 1960s espionage thriller and gleefully scrambles it into an ingenious comic farce. In London’s Piccadilly Hotel, spies from opposing sides (CIA and KGB) converge in pursuit of stolen top-secret documents called Project Midnight, plans for a deadly new weapon. Throw an actor aspiring to play Jam...
The Comedy About Spies – Noel Coward Theatre
London

The Comedy About Spies – Noel Coward Theatre

What a play, the two Henry’s, Lewis and Shieldshave ‘cracked the funny bone’ with this one. What is there not to like about Englishmen MI6, Russian KGB and American CIA agents getting it not quite right! If you enjoyed The PLAY That Goes Wrong, well this play is one for the bucket list. The Mischief Company present The Comedy About Spies, with espionage, lots of sneaking about undercover and a dash of James Bond, wonderful. The cast’s opening gambit sets the scene in 1960’London, on a mission ‘Project Midnight’ to track down documents to avert an international disaster. With an ensemble of dialogue to make you cringe and laugh out loud the agents named by letters of the alphabet start a confusing conversation: “this mission is for you no not you U” “Why” agent Y walks in “not you Y get ...