Mischief Movie Night - Arts / Tour / The Other Palace

Would a show announce its Edinburgh fringe participation less than a month beforehand? That feels like rather short notice to me, but then I've never been to the Edinburgh fringe so I don't know what is normal for it.

I don't think it is the Fringe because they would miss out on the main paper brochure including the venues own brochure. Last time they played the pleasance and their brochure is already printed and available. Also last time they had two other new Mischief backed shows up there at the same time as well which I suspect movie night was helping to support.

The Other Palace 30 July - 01 Sep

Mischief Movie Night features Mischief original cast members and regulars including: Henry Shields as Need to Check, Harry Kershaw as Couldn’t Tell You, Bry Corrigan as TBC, Niall Ransome as Guess Who? Henry Lewis as Not Sure, Rhyanna Alexander Davies as Don’t Know Yet, Lauren Shearing as We’ll Never Know, Susan Harrison as I Suppose We’ll Find Out, Charlie Russell as Who Knows? Jonathan Burke as Wait and See, Ellie Morris as Surely Not Now, Nancy Zammitt as It’s a Slam Dunk Matt Cavendish as Time, Gentlemen Please, Ruth Bratt as Look Who’s Talking and Josh Elliott as No Idea. They will be joined by musician Richard Baker.

I'm excited to see Ruth Bratt joining this run, I've seen her improvising with other groups but never with Mischief! (I believe she did some of the Arts run when Bryony broke her wrist - someone can doubtless confirm - but I didn't see those shows) I think she will fit so well with them. Also thrilled that Josh is going to be there to bring the absolutely unhinged vibes haha

It seems to be filling around their main summer show, Fantastically Great Women Who Changed Their World. So no Saturday because that has an evening performance and no matinees. Could make an interesting double bill though!

It's doing matinees and 4pm shows, it's for the kids. Edit: also evenings on the days Mischief aren't in. Quite clever sticking Mischief in for a later adult crowd.

When they did a short tour of this pre Covid they were also working up a new show (Magic goes wrong I think) and they did small tryouts of bits of that as a free second half. So I wonder if they have got the gang back together as they are working something up and will be rehearsing/workshoping during the day with or without previews in the evening?

Am I the only one who thinks that £25 for an hour is really expensive? You can see Ruth Bratt with The Comedy Store Players in the West End, a full two halves and an interval show, for £22.

That is true. I suppose I'm coming at it as someone who would be travelling from outside London.

I was told at the time of the 2018 tour that the Magic Goes Wrong previews were done at certain theatre because they wanted to have an interval and a second act (perhaps bar sales?). As this run is only at a single theatre I imagine that won't be the case this time.


Same here. I think £25 is a reasonable price considering some shows charge up to 10 times that for a show about 2 and a half times the length. However it's more of an issue that I'll have to spend as much again on train & tube fare to get there.

Given it sounds like almost everyone other than me has priority booking for The Other Palace maybe I won't even have to make a decision if it's sold out before the time public booking opens on Friday!

Just looking at tickets for this and the £25 are either front row or really really really far back. What are the chances of being picked on if you are in the front row? I wouldn’t book front row for stand up, but I think improv might be ok?

Now I’ve only seen it properly twice (as opposed to the streaming runs) but I don’t think they do pick on people with this. There’s a bit of preamble at the beginning where they explain the concept then ask people to shout out suggestions for genre, title, etc. But that’s entirely up to you. After that they just get on with it telling a story.