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The Comedy About Spies
LAUGHTER IS THEIR ONLY WEAPON
Brace yourself for hilarious mayhem and a not-so-secret mission with Mischief's newest action-packed adventure The Comedy About Spies.
When a rogue British agent pilfers plans for a top-secret weapon, CIA and KGB spies converge on London's Piccadilly Hotel in pursuit of the elusive file. Add to the mix a clueless young couple, a hapless actor angling for the role of James Bond, and enough double agents to confuse even the sharpest operative, and you've got a mission that's hilariously out of control.
Mischief, the multi award-winning company behind The Play That Goes Wrong, Peter Pan Goes Wrong and The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, bring an uproarious 1960's spy escapade, bursting with bungled missions, tangled identities, and miscommunication that's anything but covert.
This edition was published to coincide with the West End premiere in April 2025.
Brace yourself for hilarious mayhem and a not-so-secret mission with Mischief's newest action-packed adventure The Comedy About Spies.
When a rogue British agent pilfers plans for a top-secret weapon, CIA and KGB spies converge on London's Piccadilly Hotel in pursuit of the elusive file. Add to the mix a clueless young couple, a hapless actor angling for the role of James Bond, and enough double agents to confuse even the sharpest operative, and you've got a mission that's hilariously out of control.
Mischief, the multi award-winning company behind The Play That Goes Wrong, Peter Pan Goes Wrong and The Comedy About a Bank Robbery, bring an uproarious 1960's spy escapade, bursting with bungled missions, tangled identities, and miscommunication that's anything but covert.
This edition was published to coincide with the West End premiere in April 2025.
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128 pages, Paperback
Published April 22, 2025
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July 7, 2025
My family and I saw this show over the weekend with the original Mischief cast and I enjoyed it so much I bought the script. The current show is not exactly the script as written here, it's evolved subtly over the course of time - a couple of the best lines are absent and some staging reads differently, but is just as comic.
As always with a script, so much is in the interpretation, the timing and performance - but I still laughed aloud throughout the read, it was the next best thing to seeing it again.
As always with a script, so much is in the interpretation, the timing and performance - but I still laughed aloud throughout the read, it was the next best thing to seeing it again.
October 24, 2025
My favourite mischief show yet! I saw the Play That Goes Wrong years ago and loved it. As it was the first of their shows I hadn't seen anything like it and was immediately obsessed. Since then I've saw Comedy About A Bank Robbery and Peter Pan Goes Wrong although I enjoyed both nothing lived up to the OG. Up until this one! I think it is the better distilled sister of Bank Robbery and was so much fun. Seeing all the regular Mischief actors do what they do best.
December 31, 2025
exactly what I hoped it would be, having missed the show. I can't wait for it to be released/available again.
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