The Wayland-Cohocton Drama Club invites you to an evening of hilarious chaos and theatrical mayhem with The Play That Goes Wrong, The High School Edition, to be performed Thursday and Friday, November 13th and 14th at 7:00 p.m. in the WC Performing Arts Center. Tickets are just $5 at the door—and trust us, you won’t want to miss this show!
Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields, this award-winning comedy takes you behind the scenes of the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society as they attempt to stage a 1920s murder mystery, The Murder at Haversham Manor. From the moment the curtain rises, everything that can go wrong… absolutely does!
The show begins with Director Christine Bean cheerfully welcoming the audience—while the cast scrambles to make last-minute fixes to the set. Then the “murder” of Charles Haversham sets off a chain of delightful disasters: stuck doors, vanishing props, collapsing scenery, forgotten lines, missing actors, and plenty of accidental slapstick. Through it all, the ever-determined Inspector Carter soldiers on, trying to solve the crime amidst complete onstage pandemonium.
By intermission, the troupe is barely holding it together—but the show must go on! Act II delivers even bigger laughs as the performers do their best (and sometimes their worst) to finish the play. Will the mystery be solved? Will the set survive? Will the actors make it to curtain call? Come find out!
Join us for an unforgettable night of comedy, chaos, and community theater at its most entertaining. Grab your friends, bring your sense of humor, and get ready to laugh until your sides ache!