On the 22 August 2018 Mr Garrity went to see a production of ‘The Comedy about a Bank Robbery’ at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.  After being performed at the Criterion Theatre in the West End for the last 3 years, This performance was the opening show of its first ever tour of the United Kingdom.

The play, written by Mischief Theatre’s Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, is a hilarious story of betrayal, crime, romance and, of course, a bank robbery.  The three writers, who also perform in their own works, are also the creators of ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’, another successful comedy piece that has been performed in London’s West End for the last few years and has now just started its run on Broadway in America.

At the performance of ‘The Comedy about a Bank Robbery’, Mr Garrity luckily managed to bump into the three writers who were there on the Press Night to support the opening of the tour.  After a few minutes of conversation Mr Garrity told the 3 writers that a lot of his Drama students are fans of their work as they have seen clips of ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ as well as some of their production of ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’.  Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields were very flattered and asked whether GCSE Drama was a popular subject at St Edmund’s. When Mr Garrity described the love and popularity of the subject at St Edmunds, the three of them kindly volunteered to deliver a message to our GCSE students to wish them well and the best of luck for their GCSE Drama Exam Performances.