The playbill for Mischief Theatre’s new Broadway production of “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” features a note credited to a character in the show, the head of the fictional Cornley Youth Theatre, one Robert Grove, describing that company’s latest triumph: a production of “Lord of the Flies,” for which child actors were equipped “with knives and a limited food supply” and then left to fend for themselves. The only hitch, Robert reports, is that two children were lost in the process; appealing to their families, he offers both his deepest sympathies and a reminder “that the annual membership fee is non-refundable.”

Lest you missed Mischief’s last import, “The Play That Goes Wrong,” another debacle-within-a-farce that arrived via London and is still running off-Broadway, this “Peter Pan” seems to put its characters at similar risk, channeling its irreverence into the kind of blunt-force (sometimes literally), often dangerous-looking, frequently irresistible physical comedy that the Brits tend to do especially well. The Broadway cast brings back “Play” alumni such as Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields, who also wrote both plays, along with graduates of LAMDA and RADA — two of the U.K.’s leading drama schools, for those unfamiliar with the acronyms.