The Play That Goes Wrong
by Warehouse Living Arts Center
Dec. 26 - Dec. 28 (2023)
From Mischief, Broadway masters of comedy, comes the smash hit farce. 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! Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, this Olivier Award–winning comedy is a global phenomenon that’s guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter!
Auditions
Tuesday, Dec 26, 2023 at 6:00 pm
Thursday, Dec 28 at 6:00 pm
Arrive a little early to fill out audition forms
| Auditions will consist of cold reads of selected sides from the script. |
CHARACTERS
As with any play-within-a-play, you have the complication of the characters of the actors doing the play-within-the-play and the characters within the play-within-the-play. To make it a little simpler, the names are laid out below in two lists: firstly the members of the Cornley Drama Society who are putting on the play, and secondly the characters of The Murder at Haversham Manor.
The text always uses the actors' names rather than the characters' names.
| MEMBERS OF THE CORNLEY DRAMA SOCIETY (in order of appearance - color matches to same actor) ANNIE is the company's stage manager. American accent. STAGE CREW, the Comley Drama Society stage crew. TREVOR is the company's lighting and sound operator. American accent. CHRIS is the head of the drama society, directed the play and plays Inspector Carter. JONATHAN plays Charles Haversham. ROBERT plays Thomas Colleymoore. DENNIS plays Perkins. MAX plays Cecil Haversham and Arthur the Gardener. SANDRA plays Florence Colleymoore. |
CHARACTERS IN THE MURDER AT HAVERSHAM MANOR (in order of appearance - color matches to same actor)) CHARLES HAVERSHAM, the deceased. THOMAS COLLEYMOORE, Charles' old school friend. PERKINS, Charles' butler. CECIL HAVERSHAM, Charles' brother. FLORENCE COLLEYMOORE, Charles' fiancée and Thomas' sister.INSPECTOR CARTER, an esteemed local inspector. ARTHUR THE GARDENER, the gardener at Haversham Manor. |
“The Play That Goes Wrong” is presented through special arrangement with Dramatist Play Services and Broadway Licensing.
