''Groan Ups'' is a

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by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields of

Mischief Theatre Mischief Theatre is a British theatre company founded in 2008 by a group of students from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in West London, and directed by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields. The group originally began ...

Plot summary

The play revolves around the relationships between five school-friends are explored at three stages of their lives: in

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in 1994,

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in 2001, and at a school reunion in the present day.

Productions

The play opened on 20 September 2019 and ran until 1 December 2019 at the

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in London's West End, making it the third Mischief Theatre production running simultaneously alongside ''

The Play That Goes Wrong ''The Play That Goes Wrong'' is a 2012 play by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields of Mischief Theatre Company. It won Best New Comedy at the 2015 Laurence Olivier Awards. As of September 2021, the show has been running since 201 ...

'' and '' The Comedy About a Bank Robbery''. The cast performed a scene from the play on the 2019 Royal Variety Performance. The play was to begin a UK tour in August 2020, however due to the

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it was postponed and opened at the

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on the 12th August 2021.

Cast and characters

External links

Official website

References

2019 plays Comedy plays West End plays British plays Mischief Theatre Plays set in the 1990s Plays set in the 2000s {{2010s-play-stub