“Charley’s Aunt,” a play running at the Clarence Brown Theatre through March 7, is like a breath of fresh air when it comes to entertainment. One doesn’t expect a play to have such amazing performances and to produce so much laughter in an individual.

“Charley’s Aunt” was written by Brandon Thomas, an English playwright who died in 1914, but not without leaving this incredible work behind. “Charley’s Aunt” originally ran almost 1,500 times in London, breaking tons of records at that time. And as a first show to see at the Clarence Brown Theatre, one cannot go wrong with the farce.

“This was the first play I have been to at the CBT, and I feel that it was a great show to start with,” Christopher Manning, sophomore in industrial engineering, said. “The acting was amazing, and the show was hilarious.”

The production is set in 1910 at Oxford University, where Charles Wykeham (Matt Bassett) and Jack Chesney (Jonathan Visser) are contemplating how to write to the women they love and propose to them before they go off to Scotland for the summer. The boys think about the situation and decide to use Charley’s wealthy aunt, who is coincidentally coming into town to meet him for the first time, as a way to see the girls and have a celebration for the aunt coming to town. However, the aunt’s arrival is postponed, so they use their friend Lord Fancourt Babberly (Michael Moreno), also known as Babbs, and make him wear a women’s costume and pretend to be the multimillionaire aunt, Donna Lucia D’Alvadorez.

The play continues, and everyone is convinced that Babbs is actually a woman. The girls in the play, Kitty Verdun (Jack’s love interest) and Amy Spettigue (Charley’s love interest), go on to laugh and converse with Babbs, as though he is just another woman. Little do they know they are being tricked the whole time.

The plot thickens when Jack’s father randomly shows up to give him money and decides he should marry Donna Lucia because she is rich, and the Chesney family is experiencing money problems. Charley and Jack are, all the while, trying to keep Babbs from taking advantage of the girls getting so close to him and keeping Jack’s dad at a safe distance from whom he perceives to be “Donna Lucia.”

The story unfolds beautifully, and one who attends will no doubt leave the theater feeling very happy. The actors are extremely refreshing, and Babbs (Michael Moreno) has quite possibly the best facial expressions anyone has ever seen. It would be a shame not to mention the very witty butler Brasset (Neil Friedman) as he comes in and out of the scenes with his funny one-liners and usually gets all the blame put on him for things that are hardly his fault.

“Charley’s Aunt” is sure to be a good laugh for all.