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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
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
Theatre Credits (Selected): The Three Musketeers, The Importance of Being Earnest, Clue, Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Citadel Theatre/The Arts Club); Heist, Might As Well Be Dead, Murder on the Orient Express (Vertigo Theatre); The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Othello, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale (The Shakespeare Company); Listen Listen (Teatro La Quindicina), MINE and BROCK SHITHOUSE (Workshop readings for Backstage Theatre/Found Fest).
Other: BFA from University of Alberta.
Izad Etemadi
Stage Crew
For the Grand Theatre: Frozen, Elf: The Musical, Grow.
Theatre Credits (Selected): The Bidding War (Crow’s Theatre); Frozen (The Citadel); Izad Etemadi: Let Me Explain (Green Light Arts).
Film and TV Credits (Selected): Orphan Black: Echoes (AMC); Ghosts (CBS); Overlord and the Underwoods (CBC/Nickelodeon); Revenge of the Black Best Friend (CBC Gem).
Other: Recipient of the 2017 Emerging Queer Artist Award (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre); alumnus of the 2021/2022 CBC Actor’s Conservatory (Canadian Film Centre); screenwriter with projects in development and production with Cameron Pictures, Shaftesbury Kids, and Border2Border Entertainment; winner of the 2023 Queer Your Stories short film competition for Plant Daddy (Inside Out Festival); over seven years of casting experience in film and television.
Vanessa Jette
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
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/RMTC); 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/RMTC); A Perfect Bowl of Pho (Toronto Fringe); Kitchen Potluck (fu-GEN); Nobody Asked To Be Here (Persephone Theatre); Narnia (Theatre Sheridan/Badhats). 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 Calgary/MTC); 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): Fight Director: Beauty and the Beast (WCT). Movement & Intimacy Director: The Play That Goes Wrong (Citadel Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Royal MTC); A Streetcar Named Desire (Citadel, Theatre Calgary); 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, Peter and the Starcatcher (Citadel); Glory (Chemainus Theatre Festival/National Tour/Original Cast - WCT, et al.); GIANT (Ghost River Theatre).
Other: Certified Fight Instructor (FDC), sessional instructor (MacEwan University), Co-Artistic Producer (Azimuth Theatre). www.morganyamada.com.
Beyata Hackborn
Set Designer
For the Grand Theatre: Heist.
Theatre Credits (Selected): Legally Blonde (Theatre Calgary/Citadel); The Play That Goes Wrong (Theatre Calgary/Citadel/RMTC), 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 Ghost, 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
Donovan Seidle
Composer & Sound Designer
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.
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, Titanic.
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, The Play That Goes Wrong (Citadel Theatre/Theatre Calgary/RMTC); First Métis Man of Odesa and Takwahiminana (Punctuate! Theatre).
Other: Graduate of the BFA program at the UofA with distinction. For Julien Arnold.
Gina Woodward
Apprentice Stage Manager
For the Grand Theatre: Debut.
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.
