The Comedy About Spies Tickets

The Comedy About Spies in London

Theatre fans, your mission - if you choose to accept it - is simple: enjoy some of the biggest laughs in the West End with The Comedy About Spies! This riotous play from Mischief Theatre, the team behind the hilarious The Play That Goes Wrong, returns to London this August for a strictly limited run following a sell-out summer season in 2025. “Bigger, better and more brilliantly bungling than ever” (Daily Mail), The Comedy About Spies dives into the murky world of espionage in 1960s London. With stolen plans for a top-secret weapon, hurried meetings in hotels, and a hefty dose of mistaken identity, this Cold War farce is a little less suave than Bond, but much funnier! Don’t find yourself out of the loop: catch this five-star comedy play as it comes to the Adelphi Theatre, just off the Strand, this summer.

What Is The Comedy About Spies About?

It’s London in the 1960s, and there’s fashion, rockin’ music and intrigue at every turn. When a rogue British agent steals top-secret plans for a new weapon, spies from the CIA and KGB meet at the Piccadilly Hotel to smoke out the treacherous mole. This is a Mischief Theatre play, though, so nothing’s simple… and the hotel is coincidentally welcoming a young British couple and an actor auditioning for the first ever James Bond film at the same time!

A straightforward mission for the world’s most daring spies quickly turns into a mess of mistaken identity and miscommunication. As the stakes get higher, will the traitor be found in time?
This side-splitting Cold War farce brings together the best tropes from your favourite spy films and flips them on their head. The result? A madcap spoof full of bumbling agents, confused guests, valiantly misguided heroism… and one of the funniest nights out in London.

The Comedy About Spies premiered at the Noel Coward Theatre in summer 2025, and returns for a second missing this August - for eight weeks only!

Cast and Creative Team - About Mischief Theatre

Multi-award-winning theatre troupe Mischief Theatre have been tickling audiences’ funny bones since 2008 with some of London’s biggest comedy plays. From Olivier Award winner The Play That Goes Wrong to The Comedy About a Bank Robbery and Groan Ups, Mischief proves that it doesn’t have to be all about drama and tragedy in the West End - there’s plenty of room for laughter as well!

Mischief Theatre was formed by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields, with a trusty company of actors regularly appearing in their shows. The Comedy About Spies is co-written by Lewis and Shields and directed by Matt Di Carlo (The Play That Goes Wrong Off-Broadway, Christmas Carol Goes Wrong). Fans will be pleased to hear that the original Mischief members will be returning for this silly summer revival, with further casting to be confirmed. 

Tickets for The Comedy About Spies at the Adelphi Theatre

MI5? More like LOL! This new Mischief Theatre comedy is perfect for fans of James Bond, Austin Powers, and every agent in between. This hilarious comedy play will “leave you crying helpless tears of laughter” (Guardian) and sold out its previous run, so move quickly and book your tickets for The Comedy About Spies at Adelphi Theatre today… Our surveillance says it’s a hit!