THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG Cast

CHRIS BEAN (INSPECTOR CARTER) – Chris is the newly elected head of the Drama Society. For tonight’s show, he served as the voice coach, dialect coach, fight choreographer, casting director and costume designer. He also plays a major role and, of course, directed. The Society would like to thank Chris for his remarkable passion and efforts. Credits include Hamlet in Hamlet, MacBeth in MacBeth, Othello in Othello.

ROBERT GROVE (THOMAS COLLEYMOORE)- A member of the Cornley Drama Society for three years, Robert uses the Stanislavsky Method. Credits include Lame Horse in Sleeping Beauty, Victorian Policeman in Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors – LIVE!, Dopey in Snow White and the Tall Broad Gentlemen and Augustus Gloop in Charlie & the Chocolate Factory. Robert’s next performance will be as Godot in the newly self-written sequel to Beckett’s classic.

JONATHAN HARRIS (CHARLES HAVERSHAM) – Touring debut! Jonathan works as a model and is therefore excited to learn transferrable skills by appearing in The Murder at Haversham Manor. He is no stranger to acting and appeared in Casualty when he was just five years old. Jonathan also performed with Emote, another local theatre company, in A Midsummer Hight’s Stamina – which featured a cast of 14 pedaling exercise bikes for the full two-hour performance.

SANDRA WILKINSON (FLORENCE COLLYMOORE) – Sandra is pleased to have accepted her first starring role with the Cornley University Drama Society as “Florence Colleymoore”, and would also like to publicly deny the rumors that her father “donated” to the director. Some of her previous plays with the society include “The Lion and the Wardrobe” where she was originally cast as the understudy of “Wardrobe”, but graciously took on the role after the original actress mysteriously vanished. She would like to say that she is glad the director made the right decision by casting her because she feels she is a vital addition to the show. Sandra has been performing from a very young age since her mother appeared in A Winter’s Tale while pregnant.

MAX BENNETT (CECIL HAVERHSAM) – Max is in his first year at Cornley University where he is studying human geography and crime. He is an avid fan of films, and his favorite is The Legend of Bagger Vance, which he’s seen 27 times. This is Max’s first production with the Drama Society, and he is very glad to have donated a large portion of his recent inheritance to help the show.

DENNIS TYDE (PERKINS) – Debut. After failing the tryouts for the football, cricket, volleyball and basketball teams, Dennis decided to join the Drama Society. Dennis does not live in the Cornley halls of residence and commutes in daily from his parents’ house. He hopes the Society will give him the chance to meet like-minded people. Dennis only stage credits date back to 1995 when he appeared in his primary school nativity. Credit: Shephard

ANNIE WHEYIKAN (STAGE MANAGER) – The unsung hero of the Society, Annie has designed, built, painted, stage managed and costumed every single Society show in the last three years. Her hard work and dogged determination behind-the-scenes lies behind so much of the Society’s success. After The Murder at Haversham Manor, Annie will begin an internship at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

TREVOR “HANDY” MANN (LIGHTING AND SOUND OPERATION) – Trevor is only participating in The Murder at Haversham Manor to earn much needed extra credit for his electronics module in order to pass his engineering course at Cornley University. Once he has passed the course, he will not continue to work with the Drama Society. Trevor credits his success to his sunny disposition and his positive outlook on life.