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If you want straight theatre rather than a musical, these two long-running plays sit at opposite ends of the mood scale. The Play That Goes Wrong is a slapstick comedy at the Duchess Theatre; Witness for the Prosecution is an Agatha Christie courtroom drama staged inside the grand chamber of London County Hall. Your choice is simply whether you want to laugh or to be gripped. Travjoy notes both have run for years and suit a broad age range.
 
## Which Play Is Right for You?
 
- Want non-stop physical comedy? → **The Play That Goes Wrong** — Duchess Theatre, family-friendly farce, ages 8+.
- Prefer a tense Agatha Christie thriller? → **Witness for the Prosecution** — staged in a real Edwardian courtroom chamber.


Mischief Theatre's breakout comedy has played the Duchess Theatre since 2014. An am-dram society stages a 1920s murder mystery where the set collapses, lines are forgotten and props misbehave. Slapstick genius that won an Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. 
Walls lean; doors jam; a dead body stands up to readjust. The audience laughs, then gasps as a chandelier actually falls. Physical comedy choreographed to absolute precision. 
- • Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2015
- • Now playing in over 30 countries worldwide
- • Running at the Duchess Theatre since 2014

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A ticket to The Play That Goes Wrong at the Duchess Theatre in Covent Garden. The Mischief Theatre production has run since 2014 and stages a fictional amateur theatre's disastrous murder-mystery production. Runtime is 2 hours including an interval. Won the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. 
- Winner of the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy and the 2017 Tony Award for Best Scenic Design on Broadway transfer.
- Toured internationally to 40-plus countries and spawned multiple BBC and West End spin-offs.
- Reviewers flag the physical-comedy set pieces and the collapsing-set choreography as the defining elements.

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Agatha Christie's 1953 courtroom thriller plays inside the debating chamber of London County Hall — the audience seated as jury, the set an actual historic chamber. Staged immersively since 2017, it's the city's most atmospheric Christie production. 
Wood-panelled galleries rise on every side; barristers pace between benches. Audience members sit as jury, gavel-strikes echoing off 1920s marble. 
- • Staged in the original London County Hall debating chamber
- • Based on Agatha Christie's 1953 short story
- • Running at County Hall since 2017

A ticket to Witness for the Prosecution at the London County Hall on the South Bank. The Agatha Christie play is staged in the former London County Council chamber, redressed as an Old Bailey courtroom. Runtime is 2 hours 15 minutes including an interval. The site-specific production opened in 2017. 
- Immersive site-specific staging inside the 1922 Grade II listed County Hall chamber makes the run unique in the West End.
- Won two Olivier Award nominations for its revival production.
- Reviewers flag the chamber's original oak panelling and the witness-stand acoustics as the staging's strongest elements.

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