On October 20th and 21st, Travelers Rest High School’s drama club, D2 Stageworks, took the stage in Patricia Hunt Auditorium, performing three plays: The Least Offensive Play in the Whole Darn World, Check Please and Controlled Chaos.

The Least Offensive Play in the Whole Darn World, is a charming satire about the handcuffs placed on high school theater. The act opens up with Tom and Sally, played by junior Wyatt Coker and senior Lillie Kieken, presenting the brand new Script Cleaner 5000. The Script Cleaner will rid any script of any touchy subjects such as sex, drugs, death, violence and homosexuality. The “infomercial” progressed showing classic plays purified by the script cleaner, such as the duel in Romeo and Juliet with Romeo, Tybalt, and Mercutio replacing their swords with ballons.

The second show of the night, Check Please, directed by Travelers Rest juniors Kassidy Rouse and Madison Reynolds,  follows a girl and boy on their series of unfortunate first dates. The boy, played by junior John Genova, struggles to find a normal girl to have a second date with, one date including a schizophrenic with a monkey’s personality. The girl, played by senior Trinity Maeshack, only seems to find internet rejects, being set up with a six-year-old boy and a man in Versace sack cloth. After the saga of sadness seems to be closing, the boy and girl bump into each other, mentioning their poor luck with love, and exit with each other on a fine, first date.

In the closing performance, the Theatre III and IV Honors classes prepared seventeen scenes to perform. However, the order was chosen by crowd members. Director Timothy Brown maneuvered through the crowd, asking audience members which scene numbers they’d like to see. After the numbers were called out, performers would hustle out to set up the scene and count down for the audience before they began. The beautifully chaotic, final act showed the actors’ and actress’ preparation in being able to perform one of seventeen scenes at a moment’s notice.

An Evening of Comedy (and a little bit of drama) marks the first performance by D2 Stageworks of the school year.  Brown said, “It was an opportunity for every student to be represented as a playwright and an actor.”  The drama club will return to Patricia Hunt Auditorium for another performance in the spring.