Everything goes awry in ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’
Bigfork Community Players Tepi Torrance as Denise/Perkins; Charlotte Vaillancourt as Christine; Eric Meyers as Arthur and Julie Devine as Rachel/Mary Colleymoore look for life in Bylinda Jassman, who plays Rachel/Mary Colleymoore, in the "The Play That Goes Wrong," which opens Friday. (Photo provided)
The Bigfork Community Players start their season by poking fun at the fictional Cornley Drama Society, who in their attempt to produce a drama, “Murder at Haversham Manor,” instead produce a wild comedy of errors in “The Play That Goes Wrong.”
Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, the community theater’s attempt to produce a serious play quickly goes from bad to utterly disastrous. The community theater’s attempt at a 1920s whodunit is plagued by everything a serious company never wants in a show — an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead and actors who trip over everything — including their lines. But, true to the theater maxim, the show must go on and the accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to the final curtain call.
Described as Part Monty Python and part Sherlock Holmes, this Olivier Award-winning comedy opens Oct. 25 in Bigfork.
“I’ve directed a dozen plays with the Bigfork Community Players and I’ve never experienced one that went as completely awry as this one,” Director Michele Mank said. “That said, however, many of the disastrous elements that are concentrated in this production do have a certain ring of truth as I look back on my directing experience as a whole.”
Evening performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 25, 26, Nov. 1, 2 and at 2 p.m. on Oct. 27 and Nov. 3 at Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts, 526 Electric Ave.
Tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students and seniors (62 and up) and $5 for children under 12. Tickets are available at Bigfork Drug, at the door, and online at BigforkCommunityPlayers.com.