19 Dec 2025
Mischief, the multi-award winning company who have just celebrated 10 successful years of The Play That Goes Wrong at the Duchess Theatre and premiere their new play The Comedy of Spies at the Noël Coward Theatre in April will return to the King’s Theatre, Glasgow from Tuesday 17 Feb until Sunday 22 Feb 2026 with their new stage show – Christmas Carol Goes Wrong.
This brand-new comedy which brings back the chaos and humour of The Cornley Amateur Drama Society is written by original members of the Mischief team – Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields - and stars Matt Cavendish as Max, Daniel Fraser as Chris, Sasha Frost as Sandra, Chris Leask as Trevor, Henry Lewis as Robert, Jonathan Sayer as Dennis, Dumile Sibanda and Nancy Zamit job sharing the role of Annie* and Greg Tannahill as Jonathan. The Company is completed by Alex Bird, Will Bishop, Siobhan Cha Cha, Colm Gleeson, Paige Round and Ashley Tucker.
Scrooge meets screwball as the multi-award-winning Mischief company put their inimitable comic stamp on a seasonal classic with their brand-new play. Audiences were originally introduced to Cornley’s eccentric thespians in The Play That Goes Wrong back in 2012 and Christmas Carol Goes Wrong sees the return of the ever-hapless Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society. This fumbling am-dram troupe is attempting to stage Charles Dickens’ familiar tale, but inevitably chaos ensues, from set problems to a feud over who gets to play the lead role of Ebeneezer Scrooge. Before you can say “Bah, humbug”, it’s total havoc.
The plot of Christmas Carol Goes Wrong begins a few weeks before curtain up, with the company rehearsing in the empty theatre, and then moves into the show itself. That means all the Christmas Carol elements you’d expect are in there, like the visiting ghosts and Victorian costuming, and at its core is Dickens’s terrific story. Mischief fans will be happy to know that there’s still plenty of their signature riotous slapstick and set-based mayhem too.
