AN OLIVIER award winning play will visit Southampton next year.

The Play That Goes Wrong, which was awarded the 2014 Whatsonstage.com Best New Comedy and the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy, is now enjoying its second year in the West End, where it continues to play to sold-out audiences.

It will be at the Mayflower Theatre from July 10 to 15, 2017.

The play started its life at a London fringe venue with only four paying members of the public at the first performance, and has since played to an audience of over a quarter of a million.

Producer Kenny Wax said: "The Play That Goes Wrong has been licensed to 25 countries, currently playing in Japan, Hungary and Paris - as well as in London. It goes to prove that audiences come to the theatre to be entertained and that the fun to be had in watching brilliantly plotted physical comedy is universal."

Co-written by Mischief Theatre company members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, The Play That Goes Wrong is a highly physical comedy packed with finely-tuned farce and Buster Keaton inspired slapstick delivered with split-second timing.

The play introduces The 'Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society' who are attempting to put on a 1920s murder mystery, but as the title suggests, everything that can go wrong, does, as the accident prone thespians battle on against the odds to get to their final curtain call.

Mischief Theatre was founded in 2008 by a group of graduates of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and began as an improvised comedy group.

Mischief Theatre performs across the UK and internationally with improvised and original scripted work.

Their other production The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is currently at the Criterion Theatre and their acclaimed production of Peter Pan Goes Wrong will return to the Apollo Theatre from October 20, 2016. The company is led by Artistic Director Henry Lewis and Company Director Jonathan Sayer.

The Play That Goes Wrong is directed by Mark Bell, with set designs by Nigel Hook, lighting by Ric Mountjoy and costumes by Roberto Surace.

Tickets for The Play That Goes Wrong are on sale from Mayflower Theatre Box Office tel: 02380 711811 or online at mayflower.org.uk.