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The play is about Irish Colonel Thomas Blood who attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London in 1671.

The Crown Jewels - Review of Al Murray, Mel Giedroyc and more in Restoration-style farce

The royal comedy arrives in the West End

The Crown Jewels review: Al Murray's Pub Landlord has gone posh, but even he can't save this middling play

The likes of Al Murray, Neil Morrissey and Mel Giedroyc can’t rescue Simon Nye’s woefully tedious show about the real-life heist of King Charles II’s crown jewels

★★☆☆☆What a mess. The stately music of Purcell pours from speakers before the curtain rises but decorum goes out of the window once Simon Nye’s woeful attempt

In the 1990s, the BBC had a popular flat-share comedy, Men Behaving Badly, about a pair of giggling bachelors who were scolded and dominated by their mummy-substitute girl-friends. The author, Simon Nye, has written a historical crime caper about the theft of the crown jewels in 1671, as Charles II prepared to celebrate his tenth

Clapperboard Studios has appointed two new in-house senior executive producers, Rachel Gesua and Suzi McIntosh

Cheekily advertising itself as The Royal Event of the Year, The Crown Jewels recounts the astonishing true story of how in 1671 the volatile Irish officer Colonel Thomas Blood (played by Aidan McArdle) plotted the most audacious theft in history - stealing the Crown Jewels in plain sight from the most impregnable castle in the land.

Book tickets for The Crown Jewels - performances at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End from july to September 2023.