While you’ve maybe heard someone compare 2020 to the twists and turns of one year spent at the fictional Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, West Central Valley High School is embracing the comparisons for their fall play this weekend.

“Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic,” will be performed for a limited audience at 7 p.m. this Friday and Saturday at the high school. Besides trying to avoid copyright infringement in this comedic retelling of a popular book series, there are added challenges with the students having to wear face masks the entire performance and dealing with students possibly in quarantine during the leadup to the show. Senior Cael Hansen says their director Zoey Perrigo gave students even more obstacles to face as this play has several more stage directions and character changes then in previous productions, “She always tells us that the reason why she chose this play is because it is a challenge for us and she wants to push us and become the best we possibly can, and she just wanted to give us a challenge more this year especially with COVID and everything, just try to push us out there more and out of our comfort zone and get to our full potential.”

Tickets for the play will not be sold to the public like normal as each student involved will be allotted four tickets for each of the performances which they can give to fellow students as each situation permits. Hansen shares how he feels about still having a fall play, “And so I am very happy and lucky that we were able to still have a play because there were talks about not even having a play this year with COVID and not really people knowing what was going to happen. And we always were saying how we only gave our school a month until we got shut down again.”

You can hear more from Hansen and fellow seniors Gavin Dupuy and Emma Johnson in Tuesday’s Let’s Talk Guthrie County program on air and at raccoonvalleyradio.com.