The Pleasant Valley Middle School Drama Club will perform a play they wrote titled “CLUE-less Case: The Tale of the Missing Assistant Principal.”

The actors will take to the stage at 7 p.m. today and Saturday, and a matinee show at 2 p.m. on Saturday at the middle school. Tickets are $7 for adults and $3 for students. Cash only.

The three-act play takes place at Fox Field Middle School where one of the assistant principals — the one running Field Day — has gone missing.

The students are worried he won’t be found in time for Field Day and the event will be canceled.

A group of students — calling themselves the Clever Foxes Detective Agency — decide to find Mr. Credible.

Amanda Altemose, a teacher at PVMS and co-director of the play, said the detective agency narrows down the suspects to Ms. Katie, the PTO president who thinks she can run Field Day better; Assistant Principal Rooney, who wants Mr. Credible’s job; Ms. Crabapple, who is crabby and hates Field Day; and Nurse Vent, who dislikes Field Day because children get hurt.

Searching for answers, the student-led detective agency randomly interviews people, chaos ensues, and the janitor becomes a mentor giving the kids clues as to where the assistant principal might be, Altemose said.

The detective agency consists of students from Ms. Morris’s homeroom, a character in the play. Her students include Berd Lee, played by Norah Bird; Chad, Gary Dobrinsky; Sunni Dai, Juliana Torres; Paige Turner, Kennedy Beim; Rita Booke, Julia Saffer; Max Contract, Emerson Impellizeri; Ophelia Payne, Emilee Gearl; Mel O’Drama, Katie Rivera; Drew A. Line, Dani Ward; Jo King, Eva Madeira; Richie Grate, Jaxsen Perez; Al, Julian Meloy; Jessica Tucker, Madisyn Mozelesky; Ella, Leah Carpenter; and Lorelai, Lorelai Michelemann.

“All of the detectives have punny names,” Altemose said. “Except for Chad, who has such a big personality he doesn’t need a last name.”

Some of the cast talked about their characters.

Juliana Torres, who plays Sunni Dai, said the overall voice of the play is the everyday life of a middle schooler, with lots of dad jokes.

“The middle school vibes,” Norah Bird, who plays Berd Lee, added.

Torres said her character is really energetic. “She goes off track all the time. That’s so me,” she said.

Bird said she thinks “the fact that my last name is Bird is really funny, and I’m a really big nerd if you ask literally anyone who knows me,” just like her character.

Madisyn Mozelesky said her character is gossipy. She comes across as sort of a mean girl, but really isn’t. She’s just well connected to lots of people.

“She brings a wealth of information to the table,” Mozelesky added.

Katie Rivera plays gamer Mel O’Drama, who she said helps uncover who “kidnapped” Mr. Credible.

Rivera said her favorite part of the play is how people are fit into stereotypes, but deep down there is more to them than that.

“You don’t have to be what you seem to be,” she said. “You can break free from the stereotype.”

Emilee Gearl, who plays Ophelia, said her character helps explain things, and she thinks audiences will really enjoy the jokes in the play.

“Things can get so funny at times,” Gearl said.

Gary Dobrinsky, who plays Chad, thinks the audience will enjoy the plot twist.

The play was written during the summer writing program by Scarlett Atwal, Kennedy Beim, Savannah Bilby, Annabelle Binder, Norah Bird, Kevin Blomberg, Leah Brobst, Declan Brown, Indiana Brown, Doris Chen, Grayson Doran, Jasper Kayla Finn, Rebecca Hardy, Emerson Impellizeri, Rosabella Keifer, Peyton Laxton, Charlie Linford, Jaxsen Perez, Amara Perrotte, Sophia Reed, Katie Rivera, Ryleigh Rufo, Julia Saffer, Zoey Shorkey, Madison Temos, Juliana Torres, Meghan Worden, and Emma Stenger with assistance from teachers Alexandria Gibb and Amanda Altemose. Elaine Cucci helped with directing the play.

Many of the writers are also performing in the play. Additional characters are played by: Elyon Adjei, Sophia Brown, Olivia Burke, Amanda Chen, Angela Chen, Riley Cline, Temperance Defluri, Liviana Dobrinsky, Melinda Elston, Benjamin Fego, Elleigh Flynn, Penelope Grim, Bridget Leighty, Autumn Mackes, Hunter Marrero, Mila Martinez, Emma Miksch, Reyna Munoz, Brooke Parker, Zoe Pasqua, Sophia Radley, Ashlyn Randis, Victoria Ringwelski, and Assistant Principal Ramon Rodriguez.

“Everyone in this play, they work really hard,” said Rivera. “I don’t think anyone here will forget being part of this production.”

Rivera said the whole cast and crew became close friends.