Mischief Movie Night In

Mischief Movie Night In is the livestreamed alternative to 'Mischief Movie Night' which had its run at the Vaudeville theatre cut short in December 2020 due to COVID-19.

It had four consecutive online runs, referred to here as series which began with "Lasers and Quasars" on the 27th of December 2020 and ended with "The Day Harry Got Cut in Half" on the 1st of August 2021.

There are 51 'movies' in total, one of which had a planned sequel that was cancelled due to the cast being notified that someone on set the previous day tested positive for COVID-19. Due to the cast's revolving nature and the Mischief Theatre Company having a wide pool of associated actors, subsequent movies were put on with an alternate cast.

Summary[]

Promotional Description- "Mischief Movie Night invites the audience to direct the action: you suggest a genre, location and title and a movie is brought to life on stage, complete with rewinds, fast forwards, directors cuts and a live score. Starring them, directed by you, Mischief Movie Night is a guaranteed comedy blockbuster!"

The format of Mischief Movie Night is that there is a director who has a DVD collection of every movie ever created which he shares with the viewers. Each movie begins with a small Zoom audience that suggest three genres which are voted on. Next the director hands over to cast members in 'Social Media Corner/Edge/Periphery' who scroll through Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and pick suggestions for awards the movie has won or characters within it. The cast then act out the movie whilst the director and the viewers watch. The director has a DVD remote and can can affect the movie with it, such as pausing it at an awkward moment, rewinding, fast-forwarding or playing scenes in slow motion.

The director is normally played by Jonathan Sayer as 'Oscar' although Henry Lewis has played him as well and there is also 'Emmy' played by Bryony Corrigan, Charlie Russell and Nancy Zamit.

The music is also composed in real time by two of three talented musicians Ed Zanders, Richard Baker and Yshani Perinpanayagam.

Cast[]

Introduced in Series One[]

Jonathan Sayer as Oscar
Henry Lewis (also played Oscar)
Henry Shields
Dave Hearn
Bryony Corrigan (also played Emmy)
Ellie Morris
Harry Kershaw
Niall Ransome
Lauren Shearing
Mike Bodie
Josh Elliott

Introduced in Series Two[]

Nancy Zamit (also played Emmy)

Introduced in Series Four[]

Charlie Russell (also played Emmy)
Rhyanna Alexander-Davis
Susan Harrison
Laura Kirman
Matt Cavendish

Episodes[]

Series 1

Title: Lasers and Quasars

Genre: Jukebox musical
Setting: Space!
Awards: Best pair of glasses, Best use of cheese in a space setting, Best supporting act by a sloth.

2. Title: I Found It in the Bushes

Genre: Vampire story full of teenage angst and teenage romance
Setting: A palace
Awards: Most unexpected blizzard, Most dramatic opening of an umbrella, Best corpse by a corpse

3. Title: Who Bun It?

Genre: Detective (with a cast of animals)
Setting: A village church
Awards: Consistently Too Early, Most Intimidating Stare Down the Camera
Featuring: A taxi driver who finds birds hilarious, A character who only speaks in three-word sentences

4. Title: Flat Pack Attack

Genre: Horror, with some fantasy
Setting: IKEA
Awards: Most inappropriately timed Irish jig, Most dramatic eating of a banana, Best use of a lemon
Featuring: Delta von Tussel, who can only speak in rhyming couplets

5. Title: From Russia with Gloves

Genre: Spy thriller (with koalas)
Setting: A rainforest
Awards: Loneliest conga line, Shortest song about mushrooms, Best use of a distant uncle in a plot twist
Featuring: Trev, Nev, and Bev — one who always tells the truth, one who always lies, and one who always breaks into song for no reason

6. Title: Cat in the Habit

Genre: Period drama
Setting: Convent and cat house
Awards: Best product placement in a film, Best use of the phrase "Alakazam", Best use of a pinky promise for dramatic effect

Series 2: 1. Title: Careless Whisper

Genre: 80's musical
Setting: Library
Awards: Shortest Training Montage, Most Disappointing Rap Battle of the Decade
Featuring: Someone who believes that they are a ghost and that no one can see them

2. Title: The Primary Cape Crusader

Genre: Superhero origin story with time travel/jump
Setting: School
Awards: Best Spontaneous Can-Can, Best of use of bragging over something not worth bragging about
Featuring: Vivian the goblin who keeps getting their high-fives rejected

3. Title: Dress For Danger

Genre: Murder Mystery
Setting: Dress rehearsal for a musical
Awards: Best Commercial Break at a Pivotal Moment, Best Game of Hide and Seek
Featuring: Quickfinger Jimmy who hit his head and is convinced he is a western gunslinger

4. Title: A Cop In The Ocean

Genre: Buddy Cop Movie
Setting: Dockyard
Awards: Worst Matching Green Screen Scene, Best Spontaneous Limericks
Featuring: Clint who is always riding an invisible horse

5. Title: High Tide School

Genre: A Flood Disaster Movie
Setting: American Highschool
Awards: Most Awkwardly Timed Sea-Shanty, Best Pratfall in a Dramatic Scene
Featuring: Greg who is definitely not hiding seven ducks in their trench coat

6. Title: Suicide Squid

Genre: Superhero Movie
Setting: An aquarium
Awards: Most Poorly Themed Restaurant, Most Emotional Thumb War
Featuring: Wannabe Mind Reader who attempts to predict what people are about to say or do

7. Title: Now Museum, Now You Don't

Genre: Musical Heist
Setting: Natural History Museum
Awards: Best hostage rescue, in a location containing no hostages. Most, unfortunately, timed phone call from a concerned parent
Featuring: Oscar in a short cameo role

8. Title: The Wizard of Paddington Station

Genre: Disney Movie
Setting: Railway Station
Awards: Best Barbershop Quartet
Featuring: A character who is really bitter about getting a parking ticket 18months ago. Jasper Longlegs, who shows off his catwalk swagger

9. Title: Light Over The Rocks

Genre: Story of a Rockband Making It
Setting: Lighthouse
Awards: Best Choreographed Washing Up, Funniest Chesney Hawkes Pun

Series 3: 1. Title: The Quest for Escape-A-Lot

Genre: Escape Movie with a Shakespearean Scene
Setting: Camelot Castle
Awards: Most Inappropriate Round of Applause, Most Inappropriate Product Placement for a Stair Lift
Featuring: An overconfident farmer who brags about his sheep.

2. Title: Wild Feast

Genre: Western Zombie Movie
Setting: Edinburgh (at sea)
Awards: Most Difficult Stage Entrance, Film with the most dramatic close-ups
Featuring: Fergus Pickles solves all life's problems with tickles.

3. Title: Look Out

Genre: Pirate Movie
Setting: Ship Penguin Double-decker
Awards: Best Impromptu Ballet Routine, Most Inappropriate Use of Happy Music
Featuring: Paul Nicks who likes to play pick up sticks, Mischief the Chicken

4. Title: Look Out! II (They Sphinx It's All Over)

Genre: Pirate Movie
Setting: Egypt

5. Title: What's The Pointe

Genre: Scooby-Doo Comedy Mystery
Setting: Ballet School
Awards: Most Unusual Way to Hail a Taxi, Most Underwhelming Reveal
Featuring: Lenny Clemons who only wishes for people to appreciate his flower arrangements

6. Title: Enter the Elephant

Genre: Kung Fu Movie
Setting: Carnival
Awards: Most People Taking a Bath Together, Best Late Introduction of a Character
Featuring: Steve Peeps, a terrible trainee spy

7. Title: Love Behind Bars

Genre: Romcom
Setting: Prison
Awards: Most Inappropriate Romance during a Funeral, Least Romantic Valentine's Gift
Featuring: Hope Less, who sees romance in everything

8. Title: Temple of The Red Giraffe

Genre: Adventure Film
Setting: Temple
Awards: Most Abrupt Tea Party, Most Salacious Filing Cabinet
Featuring: Terry Marvellous, who believes that he is a really good magician

9. Title: Nightmare on Bone Street

Genre: 80's Horror-Slasher Film
Setting: Dog Show
Awards: Most Actor's Used as Furniture, Most 'Creamy Centre'
Featuring: Freddie Fryer, the magically talking tumble dryer

10. Title: Wishing for Wishy-Washy

Genre: Pantomime
Moral: Be careful what you wish for
Awards: Best Blue Peter Style demonstration of how to make or do something, Most Flirtatious Use of Maths
Featuring: Trevor Noun, the literary wizard

11. Title: Fraud of the Blings

Genre: Fantasy
Setting: Tower in a Winter Wonderland
Awards: Most Character's Yodelling in a Scene, Most Confusing Catchphrase
Featuring: Jimbo Jumbo who's life's goal to be a rainbow

Series 4:

Over the Henge
- Genre: Historical
- Setting: Stonehenge
- Awards: The best use of Kachow!, The least necessary murder
- Featuring: Tommy Bahama and his llama
The Hounds of the Wensleydales
- Genre: Murder Mystery
- Setting: Cheeseland
- Awards: The best alternative to a kiss, The most alliteration in a sentence
- Featuring: Tallulah Ballulah, she loves to rhyme
Popes on the Ropes
- Genre: Wrestling
- Setting: Texas
- Awards: The most winks in a scene, The best shoes, The best use of mime in a pivotal scene
Rumpole of the Motte and Bailey
- Genre: Legal Drama
- Setting: Medieval Circus
- Awards: The best heavy metal song about trees
- Featuring: Dapper Stan the fashionable man and a cameo from the tech team
Zoomania
- Genre: Alien Invasion
- Setting: A Zoo
- Awards: The most romantic game of "rock, paper, scissors. The best fireworks display. The sexiest rendition of "Mary had a little lamb"
Singing in the Aisles
- Genre: Musical
- Setting: ASDA
- Awards: The best use of invisible stairs. The most dramatic camera angles in a non-dramatic scene. The best synchronised jazz routine
A Dice with Death
- Genre: Murder Mystery
- Setting: Las Vegas
- Awards: Best opera number, Best ventriloquist performance
- Featuring: Musicians playing two completely contrasting pieces of music at the same time
Star Paws
- Genre: Sci-Fi
- Setting: Space Observatory
- Awards: Best use of interpretive dance, Best lullaby about hats
- Featuring: Remedy Ron, always eager to offer weird and wonderful things on his person to solve problems or ailments
Angstronauts
- Genre: Wild Teen Musical
- Setting: Space School
- Awards: Best cooking show scene, Best use of reflection
- Featuring: Wolliam Breakspeare, a failed actor who can only speak in broken Shakespearian English
If It Wasn't For Those Pesky Kids
- Genre: Detective
- Setting: Abandoned Funfair
- Awards: Most complicated description of an object without naming it. Most agressive rendition of head, shoulders, knees and toes. Most vivacious entrance
Abandoned Love
- Genre: Rom-com
- Setting: Abandoned School
- Awards: Most chaotic Zumba session, Most complicated handshake, Most dramatic music used in the least dramatic situation
Good Guys Finish Last
- Genre: Superhero Horror
- Setting: Cruise Ship
- Awards: Bad Idea Pandas, Most Intense Key Change
- Featuring: A character who's inner monologue is narrated by someone else
Ipswitch It Up
- Genre: Timetravel Musical
- Setting: Ipswich
- Awards: Best Cheerleading squad interruption.
- Featuring: Sidekick Sid- always trying to get in on the action. Samantha Sunshine-the cheeriest character with the darkest suggestions
Croydonosaurus
- Genre: Monster Epic
- Setting: Croydon
- Awards: Best fictional product placement, Best 90s/00s boy band song, Most romantic pottery session
Back to the Tutor
- Genre: School Reunion
- Setting: St Joseph's School
- Awards: Most brutal advice given by grandma, Most grandiose entrance of a background character, The most inappropriately timed gameshow
Pier Today, Gone Tomorrow
- Genre: Heist
- Setting: Southend Pier
- Awards: Disruptive haircut, Inappropriate pratfall
- Featuring: A character who can summon musical fanfare
The Man Who Came in From Cold Storage
1. Genre: Spy Thriller
2. Setting: East London Warehouse
3. Awards: Longest greeting, Silliest excuse for a parade
4. Featuring: High Q who speaks in haikus
Field of Dreams
- Genre: Fantasy
- Setting: A Somerset Farm
- Awards: Innovative use of an umbrella, Most spontaneous musical numbers
- Featuring: Phil and Ann Thropic
Fire in the Hole
- Genre: Disaster
- Setting: An Australian Fire
- Awards: Best green screen hot air balloon ride, Most metaphors in a scene
- Featuring: Marcus the Loud Mime
It's Up to You, Newark, Newark
- Genre: Olympic
- Setting: Newark
- Award: Best horse ballet routine
- Featuring: The Whispering Willows who use their voices as instruments. A character who thinks they're on Love Island
Hot Swap Buns
- Genre: Body Swap Musical
- Setting: New York Bakery
- Awards: Cheer at an unexpected time, Best impromptu Can-Can dance
- Featuring: Nick Powers: a villain who steals super powers
Ashopocalypse Now
- Genre: Post-Apocalyptic
- Setting: High Street
- Awards: Most dangerous version of duck, duck, goose. Most unexpected final cliff-hanger. Most elaborate birthday song by restaurant servers
Ashopocalypse Next
- Genre: Post-Apocalyptic
- Setting: High Street
- Awards: Best lip sync to vocals from another actor.
- Trope: Longest "give in all your weapons at the door" scene
- Featuring: Amy Windmill, local MP who keeps working while everyone else is dead
Ashopocalypse Then
- Genre: Post-Apocalyptic
- Setting: High Street
- Trope: Prequel
The Day Harry Got Cut in Half
- Genre: Preschool Magic Show
- Setting: Scottish Highlands
- Awards: Best rap battle about apples, Worst/best moonwalk, Best Oscar cameo

Gallery[]

External links[]

Mischief Movie Night - Offical Website.