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Drama Club On Stage - Canaan Christensen, Gavon Hargrove, Shelby Hagerman, Kaylee Taylor (front), Mikhalya Ward and Isaac Dickens (back) rehearse a scene from OV’s Parlor Games.

•October 31, 2018•

The Okaw Valley Drama Club will present the play “Parlor Games” by James C. Wall at 7 p.m. Thursday, November 1-Saturday, November 3 in the OVHS gym.
Practical joker Mort McNulty hosts his own wake so that he can hear what people will say about him after he’s dead, before he’s dead. Mort’s wife, Tricia, gets unwillingly drawn into the action and apologetically tries to convince everyone that Mort is playing another joke.
We meet a variety of wake-goers—some there on purpose, some not—who eventually, with the right amount of suggestion and imagination, convince themselves that Mort is dead and Tricia is in denial.
The mistaken identities, chases, and jokes within jokes within jokes culminate in Tricia turning Mort’s wake into a surprise party as she tries to teach her husband a lesson about practical jokes.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.