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Stars in the wings: theatre's massive debt to am-dram by Michael Coveney

Box-office fortunes have been built on lampooning amateur dramatics' cliche and incompetence, yet these theatres have had the last laugh A popular idea of am-dram is that the play goes wrong. We love nothing more than a good bit of mayhem and mishap in theatre. Indeed, The Play That Goes Wrong (2015) is a palpable hit, still running in the West End and on Broadway, conceived and performed by three drama school gradua…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PM on March 4, 2020

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