Everything goes wrong in “The Play That Goes Wrong” except the laughs.

The play, a Muhlenberg College Theatre & Dance production through Nov. 2, is one of the most hilarious comedies you’re likely to see. The Oct. 30 opening night performance in the Dorothy Hess Baker Theatre, Trexler Pavilion for Theatre & Dance, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, was seen for this review.

“The Play That Goes Wrong” is about a hapless hinterland British theater troupe, The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, production of “The Murder At Haversham Manor.”

The Muhlenberg College student actors play fictional actors who play fictional characters in a fictional English theater troupe’s fictional murder mystery play. Got it?

The mixed-up confusion extends to the playbill, whereby the pages for the “Haversham Manor” play are printed upside down (with respect to the real cover) and list the fictional actors and the fictional characters they play and their fictional biographies. This provides the theater-goer with amusing reading before and after the performance.

For this theater reviewer, it was a bit too clever by half and provided a fair amount of consternation. I needed to place two copies of the playbill side by side, and request email assistance from Scott Snyder, Marketing & Development Manager, Department of Theatre & Dance, Muhlenberg College, to give credit where credit is due.

And credit, a lot of credit, is due the eight-member cast and the play’s director Jim VanValen. Each student creates an indelible character that remains in the theater-goer’s memory long after the play concludes. The actors maintain the farcical tone from curtain to curtain.

Ava Mattson, who plays the actor Max Bennett who plays Cecil Haversham, brother of Charles Haversham, and also plays Arthur, the gardener, gamely, slyly and confidently steals every scene she’s in with a magnanimous smile and beaming thank-yous in direct-address to the audience with the charm of a child performing her first grade-school pageant for her parents. Mattson is so happy to be on stage and so are we the audience.

Mattea Pappa is over-the top as the actor Sandra Wilkinson, who plays Florence Colleymoore as a grandstanding flapper. Florence is the fiancée of Charles Haversham. Pappa gestures after nearly every grandiloquent line delivery with arms and legs akimbo and a supercilious smile on her face as if she’s posing for a Vanity Fair magazine cover shoot. Priceless.

Ella DeLuca plays the actor Dennis Tyde, who plays Perkins, the Haversham Manor servant. DeLuca has this wonderful quality whereby she does a slow-burn, holding a quizzical gaze as she looks out at the audience after her dialogue. With one malaprop after another and a glance at the cheat sheet on her hands, she’s delightful.

Justin Medina plays the actor-director Chris Bean, who plays Inspector Carter with an ingratiating air that humorously oozes with the sincerity of insincerity.

Isaac Levin-Delson plays the actor Robert Grove, who plays Thomas Colleymoore, brother of Florence Colleymoore, with an intensity that is unflappable and very funny.

Tyler Motlasz plays the actor Jonathan Harris, who plays Charles Haversham, fiancé of Florence Colleymoore, who plays it dead, no easy feat given this play.

Mae Anglim plays Annie Twilloil, the “Haversham Manor” stage manager, who plays the role of Florence Colleymoore after Sandra gets sidelined.

Shay Seymour plays Trevor Watson, the “Haversham Manor” sound technician, as a clueless bloke to good comedic effect.

The play requires an incredible amount of physical comedy. The actors stretch, tumble, run, get knocked about by props and each other, and have stage fights. The performance at times takes on the qualities of a professional wrestling match. The actors have split-second timing (not only in their spit takes) in their interactions, line-delivery and reactions. Each is in the moment and on point.

The set, by Scenic Designer Jake Salgado, is in and of itself a character, with props that don’t stay in place and get misplaced, a door that doesn’t open, the collapse of an upper floor and the disintegration of the entire set. This play, you might say, could be hazardous to an actor’s health.

Lighting Designer AJ Ring and Sound Designer Haley Brown add effective subterfuge and surprise to the plot. Costume Designer Rebecca Lustig gives each a character a distinctive look.

“The Play That Goes Wrong,” by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, running in London since 2012, is a play that you can seen again and again and enjoy. The play received the Best New Comedy at the 2015 Laurence Olivier Awards, ran on Broadway 2017-2019 and is off-Broadway at New World Stages.

“The Play That Goes Wrong” is presented in Muhlenberg College’s jewel box of a theater, the Dorothy Hess Baker Theatre. It’s a gem of a production.

“The Play That Goes Wrong,” 8 p.m. Oct. 30, 31; 2 p.m., 8 p.m. Nov. 1; 2 p.m. Nov. 2, Dorothy Hess Baker Theatre, Trexler Pavilion for Theatre and Dance, Muhlenberg College, 2400 Chew St., Allentown. 484-664-3333; https://muhlenberg.edu