OLIVIER Award-winning box office hit The Play That Goes Wrong is returning to Leeds Grand from Monday to May 27.

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 and ambitious daring.

The play introduces ‘The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society’, which is 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 all the odds to get to the final curtain call.

The play was co-written by Mischief Theatre company members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields.

It won the 2014 Whatsonstage.com Award for Best New Comedy, the 2015 Broadway World UK Award for Best New Play and the 2015 Olivier Award for Best New Comedy.

The Play That Goes Wrong is now enjoying its third year in the West End, where it continues to play to sold-out houses.

It is licensed to 33 countries, with productions playing in Tokyo, Paris and Budapest, and soon to open in Rome, Warsaw, Shanghai, Cape Town and Melbourne.

The Play That Goes Wrong received its Broadway debut last month, with the original cast opening at the Lyceum Theatre in New York.

It is a remarkable rags-to-riches story for a play that started its life at a London fringe venue with only four paying members of the public at the first performance, but which has since played to an audience of more than half a million.

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.

A TV production of Peter Pan Goes Wrong was broadcast on the BBC at Christmas.

Visit leedsgrandtheatre.com or call 0844 8482700 to book tickets.