The Play That Goes Wrong

Presented by The Arlington Common Community Theater

At The Arlington Common Community Theater

Arlington Common Community Theater, by arrangement with Concord Theatrics on behalf of Dramatists Play Service, is pleased to present The Play That Goes Wrong, a comedic play by Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, and Jonathan Sayer. The story is centered around an amateur drama society’s disastrous opening night of a 1920’s murder mystery, “The Murder at Haversham Manor”. The production descends into chaos with actors forgetting lines, props failing, and technical mishaps, but the cast struggles hilariously to keep the show going to its final curtain call. A play within a play that is a farcical, slapstick comedy about the perils of live theater. We’ve assembled a stellar cast of locals under the direction of Tim Rice that is sure to bring the laughs.