It’ll be easy, because for most of the play,

almost the entire cast is on the stage at the same time.

The FDSH students will present “Quirk of Fate”

in the Gail Niceswanger Little Theater Thursday through Saturday.

“It’s a very ensemble driven play,” said Krug. “There’s a lot of shows where you have a couple of the main players on the stage and they are out there most of the time and everyone else is in and out, kind of helping move the plot forward. But in this one, once the characters show up, they are kind of stuck there, so there’s this constant interaction of all these different characters.”

The selection of “Quirk of Fate” also worked well with the timing of the play this year. According to Krug, the play is usually performed the first weekend of November, but this year that would have meant holding opening night on Beggars’ Night in Fort Dodge, which she didn’t want to do. The second week of November, the Comedia Musica Players will be holding their production of Irving Berlin’s “Holiday Inn” and Krug didn’t want to conflict with their performance.

“I won’t perform on top of another theater group,” Krug said. “There is so much theater in Fort Dodge and

I want our patrons to be able to see everything. So I worked it out with (activities director) Brandon Ruffridge

last spring and we decided that weekend worked.”

Krug said that extra time has been a benefit with the larger cast that includes understudies for almost all the parts,

something that hasn’t happened with the fall play before.

“I’ve been very fortunate this year because I have had our primary cast and understudy cast,” she said.

” In some years I’ve had some cast as swing players that can go in and out of any part. So this year, if people were gone because they had a game or a meet, I had this group of understudies who could come in and take their spot.”

“I can tell you I am absolutely floored, amazed and in love with these kids,” she added.

“The primary cast goes on stage and the understudies are taking notes and watching and then they get to go up on stage.”

Krug described “Quirk of Fate” a murder mystery comedy.

It takes place in the offices of an advertising agency that is trying to develop an ad campaign for medicated cornflakes.

They’re behind on the rent and are trying to convince the landlady to let them stay.

“Everyone, including the kitchen sink, starts to show up,” said Krug. “A travel agent shows up, a doctor from down the hall shows up. No one will leave and then a man shows up who has been stabbed in the back and then nobody can leave. Then the FBI finally shows up and the United Nations shows up.

It’s a lot of fun because it’s this big ensemble group.”

Each performance will start at 7 p.m, but this year there’s a special performance at

2 p.m. on Nov. 16 which will feature all the understudy performers.

Tickets for all performances are all $7 and can be purchased at the door.

High school activity tickets cannot be used.

If you go

What: Fort Dodge Senior High School fall play “Quirk of Fate”

When: 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Saturday

Where: Gail Niceswanger Little Theater at the Senior High School

Admission: $7