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The Play That Goes Wrong
by Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, & Jonathan Sayer
A revival of the Citadel Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre’s 2024 production
A revival of the Citadel Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre’s 2024 production
October 14 to November 1, 2025
Opening Night: Friday, October 17
Spriet Stage
Running Time: 2h 10m, including one intermission.
Age recommendation: 8+
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It’s Opening Night... and it's not going well. Hang onto your seat and experience Broadway's funniest play, about the worst murder mystery ever!
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Five amateur actors. A semi-adaptable stage manager. A missing canine. One play that goes very, very WRONG. Comprised of a spiraling series of increasingly absurd mishaps, this whodunit is a certified trainwreck guaranteed to deliver non-stop laughter until the curtains fall. You’ll be thinking, “It can’t possibly get any worse than this... can it?” And the answer is yes, it can.
This Olivier Award-winning comedy offers a hilarious glimpse into the absolute worst-case scenarios that can unfold in the world of theatre. Premiering in 2012 in the UK, it went on to run over 745 performances on Broadway. Helmed by former Grand Theatre Artistic Director Dennis Garnhum, the production will now make its way to the Grand Theatre in London.
"Huffington Post calls this show 'The funniest play Broadway has ever seen!' Directed by former Grand Artistic Director Dennis Garnhum – who recently brought the hilarious play Clue to our stage – this comedy about a murder mystery going terribly wrong is full of delight, stagecraft (gone wrong), and so much fun!"
- Rachel Peake, Artistic Director of the Grand Theatre
Audience Advisory
Comedic violence, mild language, sexual references, gunshots, theatrical fog, mentions of suicide, murder, and adultery.
The Cast
Alexander Ariate
Jonathan
Intimacy Captain
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): The Play That Goes Wrong (Citadel Theatre/Theatre Calgary/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); The Three Musketeers, Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Citadel Theatre, The Arts Club); Heist, The Importance of Being Earnest, Clue (Citadel Theatre); Heist, Might As Well Be Dead, Murder on the Orient Express (Vertigo Theatre); HORSEPLAY (Workshop West Playwrights’ Theatre); The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Othello, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale (The Shakespeare Company); The Odd Couple, Listen Listen (Teatro La Quindicina).
Film and TV Credits: Fortunate Son (CBC GEM).
Other: BFA from the University of Alberta.
Izad Etemadi
Stage Crew
For the Grand Theatre: Elf: The Musical, Grow.
Upcoming at the Grand: Disney's Frozen, Come From Away.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Come From Away (You Are Here Inc., ACC Gander); Frozen (Citadel); The Bidding War (Crow's Theatre); Mad Madge (Nightwood Theatre); The Play That Goes Wrong (Neptune); Sweeney Todd, Music Man, Play Joey, The Gamblers, Amadeus (Talk Is Free Theatre).
Film & TV Credits (Selected): Orphan Black: Echoes (AMC), Settle Down (CBC Gem), Ghosts (CBS), Cows Come Home (Bell Fibe TV), The Love Club (W Network); Mother Father Sister Brother Frank (Highball TV), The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu), Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount+), Tall Boyz, Revenge of the Black Best Friend, Overlord and the Underwoods (CBC).
Other: Canadian Film Centre Alumni. His new comedy series, Wine Boys, will air on Bell Fibe TV1 in 2026. @izadetemadi
Vanessa Leticia Jetté
Sandra
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): The Play That Goes Wrong (The Citadel/Theatre Calgary/Manitoba Theatre Company); A Christmas Carol 2019-2023, The Mousetrap, Little Women, Hamlet (Theatre Calgary); The Extractionist, Clue, Sherlock Holmes and The Vanishing Thimble (Vertigo Theatre); Premium Content (Major Matt Mason Collective); The Strid (Downstage Theatre); Hamlet Frequency (One Yellow Rabbit/The Shakespeare Company); In and Out of Love, Radioheaded Three (One Yellow Rabbit).
Andrew MacDonald-Smith
Max
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Frozen, The Play That Goes Wrong, The Sound of Music, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Crazy For You, One Man Two Guvnors, Avenue Q (Citadel Theatre); Pith!, Cocktails at Pam's, A Grand Time in the Rapids (Teatro Live); Avenue Q, Matilda: The Musical, Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Arts Club); Shakespeare in Love, Matilda: The Musical (RMTC); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Crazy For You, Mary Poppins (Theatre Calgary).
Other: @drewmansmith. www.drewmacsmith.com.
Jawon Mapp
Robert
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Come From Away (Mirvish/Junkyard Productions); The Amen Corner, A Grand Night For Singing, Brigadoon (Shaw Festival); Into The Woods (Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); Crack Of Doom (Toronto Fringe Festival).
Other: Graduate of the Musical Theatre Performance Program at St. Clair College. Jawon would like to thank his mom, family, closest friends, and the 10 Talent Management team for believing in and pushing him to achieve his dreams! @jmoneyswagswag
Emily Meadows
Stage Crew
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Into The Woods, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (RMTC); Blue Beads & Blueberries, A Year with Frog and Toad, Frozen River (MTYP); Li Keur: Riel's Heart of the North (Manitoba Opera); Gentleman's Guide (Dry Cold); Reefer Madness (WST); Stronger Together (Suitcase Theatre); The Dream Catchers (Charlottetown Festival YoCo Eastern Canada Tour); We All Got Lost (Hamilton Fringe); Jo's Coat (Rainbow).
Film & TV Credits: Kara Robinson Story (Lifetime); Aberdeen (Farpoint); Safehaven.
Other: Honours Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance (Sheridan), Second City Conservatory Programme for Improv and Sketch Comedy, Toronto. @emilyevameadows.
Bernardo Pacheco
Trevor
Fight Captain
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): A Midsummer Night's Dream: The 70's Musical, Network (Citadel Theatre); Forgiveness, Little Women (Theatre Calgary); The Play That Goes Wrong (Citadel Theatre/Theatre Calgary/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Vertigo Theatre); With Bells On (Lunchbox Theatre).
Film and TV Credits (Selected): Heartland, Under the Banner of Heaven.
Honey Pham
Annie
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Carried By The River (Red Snow Collective); The Play That Goes Wrong (Citadel Theatre/Theatre Calgary/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); A Perfect Bowl of Pho (Toronto Fringe); Kitchen Potluck (fu-GEN); Nobody Asked To Be Here (Persephone Theatre); Narnia (Theatre Sheridan/Bad Hats). Apprentice Director: Waitress (RMTC).
Film and TV Credits (Selected): Zaasaakwe, Fourth Period Burnout (CBC); The Colour Of Scar Tissue (APTN/ImagiNATIVE/TIFF).
Other: Graduate of Sheridan College Music Theatre Program.
John Ullyatt
Dennis
For the Grand Theatre: A Little Night Music, Great Expectations, The Importance of Being Earnest.
Theatre Credits (Selected): The Three Musketeers, A Christmas Carl, Little Shop of Horrors, Cabaret, The Pillow Man, Rocky Horror Show, Death of a Salesman (Citadel Theatre); Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes (Theatre Network); Matilda (RMTC/Citadel/Arts Club); Beauty and the Beast (Citadel/Theatre Calgary).
Other: John is a co-founder of Firefly Theatre & Circus and a notable street performer whose works include the Human Fountain and Crosswalk Theatre.
Daniela Vlaskalic
Krista
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): By the Light of a Story (Theatre Orangeville); Hamlet (Rose Theatre/Shakespeare Co./Hit & Myth); Disgraced (Magnus Theatre); Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (Theatre Aquarius); Hurry Hard (Lighthouse Festival); Doubt (Canadian Stage); How the Other Half Loves, I’ll Be Back Before Midnight, Deathtrap (Drayton); All’s Well that End’s Well, Hamlet, Taming of the Shrew (Stratford Festival).
Film and TV Credits (Selected): Private Eyes (Global); Murdoch Mysteries (CBC); The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair (Muse Productions).
Other: Playwriting credits: Sleight of Mind and The Fox. Co-writing credits: Dora Maar: the wicked one, Comrades, Mules and The Drowning Girls.
Creative Team
Dennis Garnhum
Director
For the Grand Theatre: Artistic Director from 2016 - 2023. Director: Clue, Elf: The Musical, Grow, Home for the Holidays, Cabaret, Timothy Findley’s The Wars, Prom Queen: The Musical (High School Project), Chariots of Fire, Beethoven Lives Upstairs, A Christmas Carol.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Director: The Play That Goes Wrong (Citadel Theatre/Theatre Calgary/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); Liars at a Funeral (Drayton); World premiere of musical The Little Prince (Theatre Calgary); Barber of Seville (Florida Grand Opera, Opera Lyra, Vancouver Opera); Timothy Findley's The Wars (Theatre Calgary, Vancouver Playhouse); Carmen, La Traviata (Pacific Opera); West Side Story (Bangkok University); Rat in the Skull (Berkshire Theatre Festival). Stratford Festival (four seasons); Shaw Festival (six seasons). Director/Adapter: Lost: A Memoir (Theatre Calgary, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Neptune Theatre); King Lear (Theatre Calgary, Bard on the Beach).
Other: Artistic Director of Theatre Calgary from 2005-2016. Recipient of a Calgary Award for Community Achievement in Arts and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. Dennis published his first novel TOWARD BEAUTY: Reigniting a Creative Life on the Camino de Santiago In 2022
Morgan Yamada
Fight & Movement Director
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Movement & Fight Director: The Play That Goes Wrong (Citadel Theatre/Theatre Calgary/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre). Intimacy & Fight Director: A Streetcar Named Desire (Citadel, Theatre Calgary). Fight Director: Life of Pi (Citadel, Royal MTC), Beauty and Beast (WCT), Prison Dancer, Jersey Boys, 9 to 5, The Fiancée (Citadel); The Maids (Putrid Brat); Deathtrap (Teatro Live). Actor: The Three Musketeers (The Arts Club & Citadel); Pride and Prejudice (Citadel); Glory (Chemainus Theatre Festival/National Tour/OriginalCast - WCT,etal.); GIANT (Ghost River Theatre).
Other: Certified Fight Instructor (FDC), sessional instructor
(MacEwan University), Co-Artistic Producer (AzimuthTheatre).
Beyata Hackborn
Set Designer
For the Grand Theatre: Heist.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Life of Pi (Citadel/RMTC); Legally Blonde (Theatre Calgary/Citadel); The Play That Goes Wrong (Citadel Theatre/Theatre Calgary/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); Chris, Mrs. (Boldly Productions); Little Shop of Horrors (Arts Club/Citadel); Jersey Boys (Citadel); Horseplay, Metronome, Mob (Workshop West); Sleight of Mind (Western Canada Theatre); The Secret Garden, Village Wooing, Playboy of the Western World, Overruled, Bright Lights (Shaw Festival).
Other: Edmonton-based set & costume designer currently living with a beloved household of friends and dogs.
Joseph Abetria
Costume Designer
For the Grand Theatre: Grand Ghosts, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Life of Pi, The Play That Goes Wrong (RMTC/Citadel); Little Women, Indecent, The Comeback (RMTC); Prophecy, Mary's Wedding, Iceland (Theatre Projects Manitoba); Snow White, Spelling 2-5-5 (Manitoba Theatre for Young People); Volare, Space Girl, Voice (Prairie Theatre Exchange).
Other: BA (Honours) Theatre Design and Production from University of Winnipeg.
Kimberly Purtell
Lighting Designer
For the Grand Theatre: Prom Queen: The Musical, Elf, Home for the Holidays, The Phantom of the Opera, This London Life.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Stratford Festival, Shaw Festival, Mirvish Productions, National Arts Centre, Banff Centre, Canadian Stage, Citadel Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Arts Club, Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, Pacific Opera, Edmonton Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Kansas City Lyric Opera, Arena Stage, DC, Soulpepper, Crow's Theatre, Charlottetown Festival.
Other: Three Dora Mavor Moore Awards, the Pauline
McGibbon Award, a Montreal English Theatre Award, a Toronto Theatre
Critics Award, an Ottawa Critics Circle Award and an Elizabeth Sterling Award.
Dave Pierce
Composer & Sound Designer
For the Grand Theatre: Chariots of Fire.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Chicago, Annie Get Your Gun, Swing, Thoroughly Modern Millie (National Tours); Sinatra 100 (Grammy Awards); Tony Awards (Twyla Tharp Performances).
Film and TV Credits: Vancouver 2010 Olympic Ceremonies (Emmy Award); Christmas with Michael Bublé (NBC); Canada’s Walk of Fame (CTV).
Other: 30 years as Music Director of the Calgary Stampede Grandstand Show; Composer/Arranger for World Expo Dubai and Radio City Music Hall’s 75th. www.davepiercemusic.com
Donovan Seidle
Composer & Sound Designer
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits: The Play That Goes Wrong (Citadel Theatre/Theatre Calgary/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); Liars At A Funeral (Drayton Festival); King Lear (Theatre Calgary, SFX Theatre). Numerous original orchestra shows (The Mysterious Maestro, Symphonic Speedruns, Kiesza in Concert, Corb Lund in Concert).
Film and TV Credits: Lloyd the Conqueror (2011); The Agreement (2016); White House Down (Trailer); The Whale (2014); Vancouver Olympic Winter Games 2010 Ceremonies; World Expo 2020 Dubai.
Numerous projects of all types, many collaborations with the terrific Dave Pierce that didn't go wrong!
Other: Graduate of University of Calgary (BMus) and Northwestern University (Mmus), Assistant Concertmaster of Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (since 2003). www.donovanseidle.com
Jordan Guetter
Stage Manager
For the Grand Theatre: Elf: The Musical, Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Million Dollar Quartet, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, A Christmas Carol, Chariots of Fire, Home for the Holidays.
Upcoming at the Grand: Assistant Stage Manager – Disney's Frozen, The Importance of Being Earnest.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Richard II, The Diviners, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Stratford Festival); Don Giovanni, Carmen, Die Vögel, Il Trittico (Pacific Opera Victoria); Mamma Mia (Neptune); Baskerville (Chemainus); The Music Man, Serving Elizabeth, Kim’s Convenience, Ring of Fire (Thousand Islands Playhouse); R.U.R. A Torrent of Light, Oksana G (Tapestry Opera); Cock (TIFT); Passing Strange (The Musical Stage Company/Obsidian); The Brothers Size, The Testament of Mary, Hosanna (Soulpepper).
Other: Jordan has also worked with Volcano, Drayton Entertainment, Cahoots, b current, Lighthouse Festival Theatre, Sudbury Theatre Centre and more.
Lore Green
Assistant Stage Manager
For the Grand Theatre: The Wars, Mamma Mia!, and Titanic.
Upcoming at the Grand: Disney's Frozen.
Theatre Credits (Selected): A Christmas Carol, West Side Story, Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Sense & Sensibility, Hadestown, Silver Arrow, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Clue, Jersey Boys, Rubaboo, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Disney's Frozen (Citadel Theatre); The Play That Goes Wrong (Citadel Theatre/Theatre Calgary/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre); First Métis Man of Odesa, Takwahiminana (Punctuate! Theatre).
Other: For Julien Arnold.
Gina Woodward
Apprentice Stage Manager
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Upcoming at the Grand: Piaf/Dietrich.
Theatre Credits: Coal Bowl Queen (Ships Co. Theatre, EFT, HEIST); Mamma Mia!, Little Shop Of Horrors, Disney’s Frozen, Rumour Has It: Adele Tribute (Neptune Theatre); Heathers: Teen Version, The Prom (Neptune YPCo.); Still Dancing, Downed Hearts (Ships Co. Theatre).
Other: BA Dalhousie University, Honours in Stage Design and Technical Theatre from Fountain School of Performing Arts.
