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The Comedy About a Bank Robbery is a caper play from Mischief Theatre, the team behind The Play That Goes Wrong and Peter Pan Goes Wrong. Unlike those plays, its humour does not come from mistakes in making the play, but it uses the theatre for comedy in other ways.In Minneapolis, 1958, a priceless diamond belonging to the Crown Jewels of Hungary has been deposited for safe keeping in the City Bank. But convict Mitch Ruscitti, recently escaped from British Columbia Penitentiary, has his eyes on the diamond. Aiding him are his Trickster Girlfriend, a bent (and stupid) prison guard, and some guy he doesn't know. But this is a town where everyone's a crook. |
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6 Is 9 |
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6 Is 9: The code for deactivating the alarm is 6996, as Sam learns while dangling upside down. He needs to flip over to be able to use the keypad. |
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Pillow Pregnancy |
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Pillow Pregnancy: Caprice uses a fake hump under her clothes to trick one of her paramours into sending money for baby supplies. This hump later allows her to sneak a power drill into the bank to help pull off the heist. |
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Curtain Camouflage |
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Curtain Camouflage: At Caprice’s apartment. |
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Porn Stache |
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Porn Stache: The increasingly ludicrous moustaches of Officer Shuck’s superiors. |
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Gravity Screw |
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Gravity Screw: While the crooks are in the air-vent, we see what they see: a bird's-eye view of the bank office. In reality, this is the actors playing Warren and Mr Freeboys defying gravity on the back wall. In-universe, things go very weird for the characters as simple tasks like pouring a coffee or throwing a piece of paper in the bin become bizarrely difficult. |
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Closet Shuffle |
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Closet Shuffle: In the chaos at Caprice’s apartment. |
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Walkie-Talkie Gag, Over |
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Walkie-Talkie Gag, Over: This radio conversation after Sam goes missing during the heist. |
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Kiss of Distraction |
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Kiss of Distraction: the final punchline, with Ruth kissing - and handcuffing - Officer Shuck |
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Butt-Monkey |
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Butt-Monkey: Warren gets the most of the abuse, both physically and psychologically. |
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Paper-Thin Disguise |
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Paper-Thin Disguise: Sam and Cooper are both implausibly disguised as Mr Freeboys. Aside from one pair of missing pants, nobody else can tell the three of them apart. |
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Scolding the Fourth-Wall Breaker |
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Scolding the Fourth-Wall Breaker: The punchline to the first half of the air-vent scene. After Warren fails to defy gravity, acknowledging that the characters are actually halfway up a vertical wall, Freeboys - entirely unaffected by ‘real’ gravity - mocks him and simply slides his chair over to another desk. |
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Air-Vent Passageway |
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Air-Vent Passageway: The crooks use one to get into the bank vault. |
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Driven to Suicide |
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Driven to Suicide: Warren, after realising he has no friends. |
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Punny Name |
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Punny Name: The play gets a lot of mileage out of Freeboys. |
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Open Secret |
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Open Secret: Everyone (including the warden and all of the guards) knows about Mitch’s escape plan. And they all think they’re going to be part of his gang for the robbery. It doesn’t work out that way. |
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Large Ham |
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Large Ham: While Sam does a reasonable effort at imitating Freeboys when he's disguised as him, Cooper behaves as if he was acting in a tragedy when having to do the same. |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin |
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Exactly What It Says on the Tin: It's a play about a bank robbery, but it's an intentionally funny one, so it's specifically a comedy about a bank robbery. |
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Bank Robbery |
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Bank Robbery: The entire plot. |
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Who's on First? |
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Who's on First?: A frequent source of humour, especially whenever Robin Freeboys is mentioned. There is also a long sequence at the beginning between the warden and a guard. |
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish" |
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Cooper is not good at choosing passwords. |
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Tap on the Head |
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Tap on the Head: Poor, poor Warren. And when he's not knocked out that way, he gets Easy Amnesia. |
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Kicking My Own Butt |
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Kicking My Own Butt: In one scene, Caprice's three paramours meet, argue and fight. Since all three are roles for "Everyone Else", this means one very busy actor having the stage to himself. |
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Exact Words |
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Exact Words: as Ruth says, this is a town where everyone’s a crook. Unfortunately for Officer Shuck, that includes Ruth. |
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Shoo Out the Clowns |
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Shoo Out the Clowns: It’s still a comedy, but towards the end it gets a bit darker after Mitch suddenly kills Cooper and a few other characters follow. |
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Running Gag |
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Running Gag: The seagulls attacking people whenever someone opens a window. |
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Brick Joke |
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Brick Joke: Freeboys tells Warren at the beginning that taking your glasses off while lying to someone makes you seem more truthful. Near the end, when he tells Warren that he likes him as he's about to die, Freeboys removes his glasses... then puts them back on and says it again. |
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