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. (Of course, this is a wild exaggeration of anything that might happen in a real community theater production.)The comedy is written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields. As you watch from the perspective of the audience, a community theater’s attempt to produce a serious play is quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. The underlying 1920s whodunit is plagued by everything a serious company never wants in a show, including 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 their final curtain call. With hilarious consequences! Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, this Olivier Award–winning comedy opens Fridays & Saturdays October 25th & 26th, November 1st & 2nd at 7:30pm, Sunday matinees October 27th & November 3rd at 2pm at the Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts.
