Fans of Shakespeare, the BBC or the Three Stooges’ slapstick humor will love Oak Harbor High School Drama Club’s fall drama, which is actually a comedy.

It’s a mouthful. It’s called “The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of Macbeth,” which is the best of a series of plays created by playwrights David McGillivray and Walter Zerlin, Jr.

It’s really a play within a play. The story is about a group of inept, dithering English women, and a few men, who decide to put on a production of Macbeth — the “cursed play” — for a competition, with disastrous consequences. There’s a plethora of prop problems, wardrobe malfunctions, forgotten lines, angry outbursts, a drunk, a pie in the face and a Macduff who keeps breaking bones.

One of the many highlights is Shakespeare’s Weird Sisters dressed as Halloween witches. They even sing and dance.

Shauna Lindsey, the high school drama teacher, said she’s always wanted to put on a Shakespeare play at the school, but never has the chance because Shakespeare takes three to four months to get right. This comedy, she said, is the next best thing.

“At least it has some Shakespeare in it,” she said.

Lilly Islas, who plays Kate (who ends up in a wheelchair by the end), said the 50 or so students involved in the production have been working on it just about every afternoon since late September.

And the effort shows.

Rae Beadles plays the often-outraged Thelma, the one serious thespian to take the stage. Thelma is playing Macbeth in the ill-fated production. Her fiery acting ability comes through even with the constant mayhem that surrounds her.

Of course, no English comedy is complete without men dressed as women. And the men, or boys, in this comedy play the female parts with obvious relish.

Lady Macbeth missed the bus, but the play must goes on, so stage manager, Henry, takes on the part. Devon McGaha plays Henry who plays a butt-scratching Lady Macbeth. He has to deal with a lot of physical comedy and does it well. Although his falsetto English accent is a little hard to understand at times, he’s sure to get a lot of laughs.

Robert Barrett is George Peach, the hilariously affected, garish and strangely feminine adjudicator. He spends most of the play sitting at a table at the side, snoozing, taking notes with a feathery pen, or applying makeup.

At the end, Barrett dons a wig and dress for no obvious reasons (he’s supposedly going to a drag party) and speaks about the brilliance of the drama. Barrett, in his first speaking role, is able to capture the mannerisms of a Monty Python-esque British drag queen expertly.

He’s very weird and very funny. It’s a performance worth catching.