Tragic plays to bring laughs

Local actors and playwrights will be applying comic absurdity to morbid topics in back-to-back plays taking to the stage later this year.

As part of the Kamloops Players Society’s third annual fall into drama series, the two one-act plays will “challenge the audience to confront the absurdity of their own mortality.”

The first show, titled Allen’s Nine Murders and written by Andrew Robertson and Dan Ondang, follows a telemarketer that experiences a crisis of conscious and begins to volunteer at a suicide hotline doing cold calls.

The second, titled The Murder of Arthur Wong and is also written by Ondang, will explore a dystopian society where government approval is needed in order to die.

“The cast and crew of the Fall into Drama invite Kamloops for a night out full of questionable relationships, suspicious deaths, and dark comedy,” the Kamloops players society said in a press release.

The performances will take place Nov. 27 to Dec. 1 at the Pavilion Theatre. Tickets will be available online at Kamloops Live Box Office starting Oct. 7.