The Montgomery County High School drama club is looking forward to putting on its first play in March.

It even came up with a title of the play. It will be called "Flipping Skits."

For the last two months, the club has been working on a TV show like-play that will have a series of skits. The production is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. on March 18 and at 1 p.m. on March 19 at the MCHS gymnasium.

“When we first started the drama club, we weren’t sure what we wanted to do,” said MCHS sophomore Sylvia Pike, one of the club members. “We wanted to have a big play, like a standard one or a bunch of skits. This is the first year the drama club has started up in a while, so we thought we would stick with skits. It all seemed like we wouldn’t have a good way to put them together, so I came up with the idea that if we presented it like a TV show to the audience, it might transition better.”

Pike, senior Jackson Hathaway, juniors Willow Clark and Salem Morton, sophomores Joshua Cobb, Lindsey Peel and Allison Tresch and freshman Wade Milleson and Serenity Shahan make up the drama club.

“They are some of the most creative kids that I have ever met in my life,” MCHS drama club adviser Casey Dillon said. “They have all of these wonderful ideas, interpretations and improvisations for what we’re doing. Every rehearsal is fun and exciting. You never know what’s going to happen. It’s usually very good.”

The play was originally scheduled for Jan. 14-15 before it was postponed. Dillon, who has been working at the R-II School District for three years, said even though they have to wait two more months, the drama club members are excited about putting on their first play.

“It will be very nerve-racking, but it will be very exciting with this much work they have been putting in,” Dillon said.

Dillon said guidance counselor Keri Poehlman came up with the idea of having a drama club at MCHS.

“The goal was to have something for kids who didn’t want to participate in activities such as basketball to do during the winter,” said Dillon, who was a drama club adviser at the Hazelwood School District years ago. “So these are a lot of the artsy kids who do band and choir and things like that. We wanted to start smaller, so we’re not doing a full-blown play.”

Pike, who transferred from Linn High School before the school year began, said she became interested in the drama club when it was first advertised in November. She performed in school plays in the past, and her mother was a drama club adviser at the Linn School District.

“I was with my friends and we found out about it,” Pike said. “We were told that it would be a lot of fun. I was like, ‘Sure, I’ll try it out.’ My friends wanted to go.”

Hathaway said being a drama club can help create friendships.

“Just because you’re surrounded by people you don’t talk to or people you don’t know, instead of getting nervous and not interacting at all, try to at least work with them,” Hathaway said. “That way, everything can be worked at the end. Who knows. You might form a little bond and you will never realize it until you give it a shot.”