The Comedy About Spies, the award-winning comedy from Mischief Theatre, the team behind The Play That Goes Wrong, is returning to London’s West End for a strictly limited 8-week run at the Adelphi Theatre.
It’s a brilliant option for a quality Drama trip to kick off the new academic year with a bang. With only a handful of weeks available for school trips, get your reservation in now to avoid missing out.
What to Expect on Your School Trip
When a rogue agent steals a secret document from MI6, American and Soviet spies descend on the Piccadilly Hotel in London, desperate to track the turncoat down. Meanwhile, next door, a failed actor is preparing for the role of his life and a young couple are trying to have a relaxing holiday. That’s not as easy as you think when the fate of the world is being decided in the next room.
This wildly theatrical and side-splitting spy comedy is sure to inspire the theatre and comedy makers of the future. Displaying a variety of theatrical techniques alongside the essential principles of comedy, this hilarious new offering is bound to have your students laughing in their seats.
The show runs 2 hours and 20 minutes including a 20-minute interval, and is suitable for ages 10 and above, making it well suited to KS3+ school groups.
Why Book It for Your Next Drama Trip
Following a sold-out 21-week run in 2025, The Comedy About Spies returns to the West End as the winner of Best New Play at the 2026 WhatsOnStage Awards and a nominee for the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy or Entertainment. For Drama students, it’s a masterclass in the craft of live comedy.
The show is incredibly visual and encompasses a range of storytelling techniques, including wordplay, physical comedy and visual gags, which sit alongside more nuanced theatrical principles.
It’s accessible for students of all abilities and gives Drama teachers rich material to work with before, during and after the visit. Your students will explore comedy structure and timing, character, staging and farce as a genre — all with immediate reference points for devised work, scripted performance and theatre analysis at GCSE and A Level.
School tickets are from £20, with 1 free adult place for every 10 students. With a strictly limited run until 27th September 2026, secure your reservation now.
