Thursday was the opening night for the winter play comedy “Leaving Iowa,” written by Tim Due and Spike Manton.

“Leaving Iowa” portrays the story of Don Browning, a middle-aged writer who returns home and decides to finally take his father’s ashes to his childhood home. But Don discovers that his grandma’s house is now a grocery shop, so he begins traveling across iowa looking for a proper place for his father’s ashes. This journey brings him old memories about one  his annual childhood vacation trips. There were a lot of good expectations for this play and fortunately they were all accomplished.

“It was a good  opening and I think it’s going to get better each night,” junior Toula Sweeney said after Thursday’s performance.

Since the beginning of the play there were a lot of laughs from the crowd, everyone seem to be enjoying the play.

“I thought it was a solid opening night. We had a good supportive crowd there, so it wasn’t too nerve-racking. The show clipped along at a good place and even if we slipped up some on stage we played it off well enough so the audience couldn’t tell. The joy of live-theatre school is that you could  get a different show every night,” senior Willie Michaels, who plays “The Father,” said.

Being in a play does not only requires to be a good actor but also a lot of stage details and projection, makeup and costumes.

“We did a good job this time with the costumes,” freshman Alexa Kroll said. “I am not nervous. I don’t think anything is going to go wrong. I’m excited.”