Chaos at Haversham Castle

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Title: Murder at Haversham Castle /
Chaos at Haversham Castle
Original title: The Play That Goes Wrong
Genus: comedy
Original language: English
Author: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, Henry Shields
Premiere: 2012
Place of premiere: The Old Red Lion, Islington in London

Murder at Haversham Castle (Original title: The Play That Goes Wrong ) is a comedy by Henry Lewis , Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields that premiered in 2012. The play was moved to the Duchess Theater in London's West End in 2014 , where it has been running ever since. The German-language premiere of Murder at Haversham Castle (translation by Martin Riemann) took place on November 12, 2016 in the Great House of the Hof Theater under the direction of Reinhardt Friese . This was followed by further performances at the Fritz Rémond Theater im Zoo in Frankfurt in December 2016 under the title Chaos at Haversham Castle , in Zurich, in the Hamburg St. Pauli Theater (each with the title The Show must go wrong ), in Berlin in the Renaissance Theater as well at the Theaterforum Humiste in Imst . The Austrian premiere at a professional theater had its premiere in February 2019 in the Vienna Metropol under the title Will go wrong .

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Superficially, the play revolves around the investigation of the murder of a young nobleman. In fact, Murder at Haversham Castle is a play about a group of amateur actors who, as the fictional Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, want to perform a play ( Murder at Haversham Manor ) that is reminiscent of Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap . The amateurish behavior is evident even before the start, as the decoration is still being worked on when the visitors arrive and the director, who also plays the inspector in a double role, asks for indulgence for his debut production.

Actors in the performance of the lay group are, besides the victim, his fiancée Florence, brother Cecil, his friend Thomas as well as his butler, his gardener and an inspector.

reception

The "wealth of ideas in impossible and always funny situations" is "unbelievable" and "can only be found in this form in England", according to the Luxembourg journal . Well over half of the gags are visual in nature. The Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation attested the German-language premiere at the Hof Theater as “the finest British humor”. The Frankenpost certified the premiere as “the greatest fun” and congratulated the ensemble: “If you consider that most of the work is behind the greatest lightness in the theater, you can only congratulate them. To play largely incapable laypeople who put a piece completely in the sand - seasoned professionals must first make that believable. [...] The timing of the gags, the facial expressions, the gestures, the text is perfect. The best confirmation of this are the salmon volleys that burn up again and again, the frequent scene and of course the extensive final applause including cheers. "

The performance of the Fritz Rémond Theater was also favorably discussed in the regional culture and event newspaper Strandgut : "One after the other [...] accompanied by dazzling dialogues" would go wrong, "what can only go wrong, until the stage in individual parts and that The audience hung on the ropes whimpering for mercy. ”A scene in which the actors lose themselves in an endless loop and which ends in“ a dinner-for-one farce ”underscores the artistic director's choreographic skills. Nonetheless, it was noted that "it takes a little start-up to be able to laugh at the sheer slapstick ." In the 2017 edition of the Marco Polo Cityguide Frankfurt for Frankfurters , the performance was described as "slapstick and British humor à la Monty Python". Elsewhere at the Frankfurt performance it was emphasized that it was "a piece like a comic from the best times of the 'MAD magazine', supplemented by skillful Valentinaden , a touch of Mister Bean and Monty Python."

The play's success has led to a spin-off : Peter Pan Goes Wrong .

Awards

  • 2015 Best New Comedy - Olivier Award
  • 2015 Best New Play - BroadwayWorld UK
  • 2014 Best New Comedy - WhatsOnStage Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Christian Spielmann: Deliberately gone wrong. In: journal.lu. October 25, 2016. Retrieved April 9, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Annerose Zuber: Theater Hof: When professionals become laypeople. (No longer available online.) In: br.de. November 11, 2016, archived from the original on April 9, 2017 ; Retrieved April 9, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Kerstin Starke: Immerse yourself in delicious chaos. In: Frankenpost. November 14, 2016, accessed June 6, 2017 .
  4. ↑ gt: Lost in the endless loop - Fritz Rémond Theater causes "Chaos at Haversham Castle" , in: Strandgut - Das Kulturmagazin , January 2017, p. 21.
  5. ↑ Stefanie Kreutzer, Isabelle Stier, Sandra Kathe and Katharina J. Cichosch: Marco Polo Cityguide Frankfurt for Frankfurter 2017: With insider tips. , P. 57.
  6. ↑ Jürgen Pyschik: The Fritz-Rémond-Theater Frankfurt is celebrating the “seventieth” with a brilliant crime comedy. In: kulturexpresso.de. December 7, 2016, accessed April 9, 2017 .
  7. ^ Mark Brown: The Play That Goes Wrong proves right for the West End. In: theguardian.com. October 17, 2014, accessed April 9, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Olivier awards 2015 - full list of winners. In: theguardian.com. February 14, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2017 .
  9. ↑ West End Frame: Winners announced for 2015 BroadwayWorld UK Awards. (No longer available online.) In: westendframe.com. November 26, 2015, archived from the original on April 9, 2017 ; Retrieved April 9, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.westendframe.com
  10. ↑ Full List: Winners of the 2014 WhatsOnStage Awards. In: whatsonstage.com. February 23, 2014, accessed April 9, 2017 .