AWARD-WINNING COMEDY
ABOUT THE SHOW
This multi-award-winning comedy is a hilarious mash-up of Monty Python madness and Sherlock Holmes-Agatha Christie mystery. On opening night for the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production, “The Murder at Haversham Manor,” things are quickly going wrong. Very, very wrong. This 1920s-style whodunit-farce hybrid has everything you’d never want to witness on stage from an unconscious leading lady and a corpse that can’t play dead, to actors who trip over everything (including their lines). Against all odds, the accident-prone thespians battle through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences!
RUN TIME: This performance runs 2 hours. There is one 15 minute intermission.
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“Hilarious! Nonstop Pandemonium. ”
“The show’s strength lies with the terrific ensemble cast, top to bottom, whose smug poshness as Brits that mug and prance incessantly is delightful. ”
“This company features a tight cast of hilarious actors that have mastered comic timing...There’s so much that is clever and surprising you really don’t know what will happen next.”
“This is farce at its best, and the ensemble of performers at San Jose Stage Company wring out every drop of funny in the script. It has been a long, long time since I have sat in a theatre and laughed until it hurts.”
CAST & CREATIVES
KENNETH KELLEHER† Director
MICHAEL STORM Fight Choreographer
ROBERT PICKERING Scenic Design
ASHLEY GARLICK Costume Design
MAURICE VERCOUTERE Lighting Design
STEVE SCHOENBECK Sound Design
JENN TRAMPENAU Props Coordinator
ROBERT PICKERING Technical Coordinator
KIMBERLY MOHNE HILL Dialect Coach
BILL VUJEVICH Scenic Painting
AARON GIN Master Electrician
MATT CASEY* Stage Manager
ILIANA KARBOWSKI* Stage Manager
CHEYENNE BACON Production Assistant
STEPH PUENTES Production Assistant
HALEY BAUGHER Production Assistant
*Denotes members of Actors’ Equity Association
†Denotes members of Stage Directors & Choreographers Society
SPONSORS
SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS
RICHARD & PEGGY JAMES
PRODUCTION PHOTOS
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHTS
Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields met while training at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). All core members of Mischief Theatre, they had already worked in comedy together for several years before they started out as a writing team. The three’s first piece was The Play That Goes Wrong (winner – Best New Comedy – Olivier Awards and What’s On Stage Awards). Peter Pan Goes Wrong was the trio’s second piece, opening in November 2014 for a UK tour before a hugely successful West End season in Christmas 2015. Henry, Henry, and Jonathan recently adapted the script of Peter Pan Goes Wrong for the BBC, which was filmed with the original West End cast. They were invited back to wreak more havoc at the BBC in 2017 with Christmas Carol Goes Wrong on BBC1. The Comedy About A Bank Robbery marks their third writing project as a trio and earned them another Olivier Nomination. @mischiefcomedy and mischieftheatre.co.uk