Laura Sperling Junior Jonathan Goldman, Michelle Paragment, senior, and Hope Keanse, sophomore, rehearse a scene from for the play "'Is He Dead?' A New Comedy by Mark Twain,” which will be presented at Winston Churchill High School.

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The Drama Department at Winston Churchill High School will present “‘Is He Dead’ a New Comedy by Mark Twain” as adapted by David Ives at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24 and Saturday, Feb. 25 and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26 at the school’s Gertrude Bish Auditorium, 11300 Gainsborough Road, Potomac.

“The play was just discovered five or six years ago,” drama teacher Lynda Scionti said. “Twain wrote it in 1885 or so and at the time there was talk about it being produced and it never happened. It just lay dorman all that time.”

Originally, Scionti said, the play was a little more convoluted and had more characters. But it was rewritten for Broadway by David Ives and was very successful.

“It is very funny, it has Twain sarcasm. It starts as a melodrama, changes quickly to a sitcom then ends up as a rip roaring farce,” Scionti said. “We have all had so much fun and I think the audience will too.”

Tickets are $8 online at www.wchsdrama.org or $10 at the door.