Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

Christmas Carol Goes Wrong is coming to Milton Keynes Theatre from 2 to 6 February 2027, part of the UK tour from Mischief Theatre. If you've seen The Play That Goes Wrong, you'll know the setup: a local amateur dramatic society tries to put on a play, and it all falls apart around them. This time, the Cornley Amateur Dramatic Society is taking a crack at Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and it goes about as well as you'd expect. The production is written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, and directed by Matt DiCarlo.

The plot is the one we all know, but the real show is what's happening around it. The Cornley group is beset by crossed wires, calamitous set design, arguments over who gets to be the star, and actors missing in action. Dave Hearn returns from the original cast of The Play That Goes Wrong and the BBC series The Goes Wrong Show. He's joined by a cast that includes Matt Cavendish, Jay Olpin, Annie Dart, Dumile Sibanda, Sasha Frost, Ashley Tucker, Henry Lewis, Matthew Howell, Chris Leask, Aein Nasseri, Jonathan Sayer, James Akka, Henry Shields, Adam Elliott and Greg Tannahill.

Mischief Theatre is the multi-award-winning company behind The Play That Goes Wrong, which Telegraph critic Charles Spencer called the funniest thing he'd seen since Noises Off. Since then, they've taken over the West End with Magic Goes Wrong, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery and the festive panto send-up Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Christmas Carol Goes Wrong follows that same formula—a classic story being dismantled by a cast that can't quite keep it together. The Guardian called it 'a Dickensian disaster to savour' and WhatsOnStage described it as an 'irresistible Christmas treat'.

The show runs from 2 to 6 February 2027 at Milton Keynes Theatre, 500 Marlborough Gate, Milton Keynes, MK9 3NZ. Performances are from 7:30pm to 9:50pm, so it's a full evening's worth of things going wrong.