It took close to a decade for Chung Ying Theatre to secure the rights to stage the Cantonese adaptation of The Play That Goes Wrong, according to the troupe’s artistic director Dominic Cheung Ho-kin. Judging by the audience reception on October 18 when the hit British farce premiered at the Kwai Tsing Theatre, it was well worth the wait.
Created by playwrights Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, The Play That Goes Wrong went from playing at a small venue above a British pub in 2012 to the London West End two years later, before moving to Broadway in New York in 2017, picking up the prize for best new comedy at the 2015 Laurence Olivier Awards along the way.
