December 4, 2025

NU Drama Club actors, pictured from left to right, Caiden Carey, Romeo Mendoza and Landon Moss struggle to keep things from falling while taking notes on a phone call during rehearsals of “THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG.” Showtimes begin at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 6 and at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 7. (Photo submitted)

NU Drama Club to perform a metadrama this weekend

From Gazette staff reports

Get ready for a night of mishaps, mischief and madcap mania. This weekend only, the North Union Drama Club is set to perform its fall production of “THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG,” High School Edition, written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields. It is a comedy ‘play within a play’ that follows the opening night of an amateur theater production titled, “The Murder at Haversham Manor,” produced by the fictional Cornley Drama Society. The ill-fated theatre company encounters numerous mishaps and things quickly go from bad to utterly disastrous. The troupe’s ambitious 1920s whodunit has everything you never want in a show: falling props, collapsing scenery, an unconscious leading lady, a corpse th…

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