Groan Ups London Reviews and Tickets

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(1 Review)

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Members say

Clever, Entertaining, Great staging, Epic, Hilarious

About the Show

Classroom comedy about growing up from the creators of the hit show "The Play that Goes Wrong".

Member Reviews (1)

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Epic, Great staging, Hilarious, Entertaining, Clever

See it if Amazingly clever writing, timing and acting, slapstick humour, jokes within jokes. Children who grow into adults but don't seem to "grow up"

Don't see it if You don't like slapstick humour this isn't for you.

Critic Reviews (9)

Mischief may well be swerving into becoming natural successors to Alan Ayckbourn, at one time a stalwart brand of West End comedy, but structurally the tone isn't, as yet, as confident, deft or outright funny.
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[Mischief Theatre are] genuinely heartening success story with an impressive work ethic and it’s a real shame that their new play ‘Groan Ups’ is fairly dreadful.
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Penned by the regular actor-writer team of Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, it proves fitfully enjoyable but is overshadowed by works that have ploughed the same theatrical furrow.
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What’s worse than a stage full of screaming children? A stage full of screaming adults pretending to be screaming children, that’s what.
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As it is, I winced a fair amount to start with and, after the interval, smiled throughout while even feeling the odd lump in the throat – which is some way from the Mischief Theatre norm.
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I’d love to say that it’s another smash...Yet it’s a baggy old evening, not quite a full-on gagfest, but too broad to sustain its aspirations to be something more substantial.
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There are big laughs and plenty of them, but they sit uneasily with the straighter strain of the story. It’s not quite a case of Mischief Theatre Goes Wrong, but it’s not one of the company’s best either.
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By challenging themselves, pulling back (slightly) on the gags and injecting a sense of genuine pathos into their work, the creative team have really proven themselves top of the class. Four gold stars.
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