Yakima Valley College’s Playmasters presents its fall production, “The Play That Goes Wrong” this November. The comedy, written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, is directed by Alicia Bickley, YVC instructor and director of drama with technical direction by drama instructor Ray Pritchard.

Performances will be November 14-16 and November 21-23 at 7:30 p.m. and November 17 at 2 p.m. in YVC’s Kendall Hall Auditorium (Building 12) on the Yakima Campus. Tickets purchased online are $10. Tickets purchased at the door are $15.

This play is “…an unexpected, gut-busting hit…one of those breakneck exercises in idiocy that make you laugh till you cry…It starts off punch-drunk and just keeps getting drunker,” says The New York Times.

Welcome to opening night of the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production, “The Murder at Haversham Manor,” where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a show—an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines). Nevertheless, the accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences!  

“…hilarious…nonstop pandemonium… ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ is just right: a ridiculously entertaining disaster,” according to Entertainment Weekly.

Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, this Olivier Award-winning comedy is a global phenomenon that’s guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter! Don’t miss YVC’s take on it.

Presented by arrangement with Dramatists Play Service under license from Mischief Worldwide Ltd. Recommended for Ages 8+. For more information contact Alicia Bickley at abickley@yvcc.edu.