THE Play That Goes Wrong, the West End’s hilarious Olivier Award winning box office hit, will be visiting Mayflower Theatre next summer.

Awarded the 2014 Whatsonstage.com Best New Comedy Award and the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, The Play That Goes Wrong is continuing its hugely successful run in London, where it continues to play to sold-out houses.

The story behind The Play That Goes Wrong is a remarkable rags-to-riches tale. It started its life at a London fringe venue with only four paying members of the public at the first ever performance, but has since gone on to play to an audience of more than a quarter of a million.

Co-written by Mischief Theatre company members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, The Play That Goes Wrong is a highly physical comedy packed with finely-tuned farce and Buster Keaton inspired slapstick delivered with split-second timing and ambitious daring.

The play introduces The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society who are attempting to put on a 1920's murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong does go wrong, as the accident prone thespians battle on against all the odds to get to their final curtain call.

Mischief Theatre was founded in 2008 by a group of graduates of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and began as an improvised comedy group. The company now performs across the UK and internationally with improvised and original scripted work. Another of their productions The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is currently at the Criterion Theatre and their acclaimed production of Peter Pan Goes Wrong will return to the Apollo Theatre later this year.

The Play That Goes Wrong will be in Southampton from July 10 to 15, 2017.

Tickets are on sale now from 023 8071 1811 or mayflower.org.uk