do you know if trevor's band actually based in any sort of canon or is it just more gws fanon that's just incredibly widespread?
Yes, Trevor's band is canon! It is mentioned in his bio from The Play That Goes Wrong's programme, dating at least back to 2014. And I believe the info is still the same in current programmes. His metal band is called Amoeba.
You can also check out the rest of the program here
Huge thanks to @the-irrelevant-trumpeter for confirming this info! And if you have any more cornley questions, I highly rec asking them - they have a great knowledge of cornley lore :)
Do you have any headcanons for how/ what order they all joined, or their ages in relation to each other? Usually if it isn't stated I assume the characters are the same ages as the actors, but in this case I can't even find that out for half of them!
I'll leave my tl;dr lists here and my reasoning below the cut for anyone interested!
Order they joined: Robert > Sandra > Annie > Chris > Dennis > Max + Trevor > Lucy > Jonathan > Vanessa
Age: Robert > Annie > Trevor > Chris > Dennis > Jonathan > Sandra > Max > Vanessa > Lucy [edit: I swapped max and Sandra]
This post is a really good breakdown of each characters history within cornley gathered from programs/playbills (which can be found in my #mischief playbills and #mischief programs tags). (thank you @reallyhardy it’s a very useful post!!)
According to this post they 'try so hard to make out like the characters aren't all the same age' but obviously are played by actors of the same age so it's a bit dependent on how you want to take it.
That said I've managed to work out some sort of order for when they each joined the group - this could be reflective of their ages too but also there's very little to suggest this
So I can say with some confidence that Robert was the first of the cornley gang to join. (40 productions since 2002 with them I have absolutely no idea how many shows they do each year this could be upwards of 4 shows a year or they just put 10 on one year for the lols) Followed by Sandra (interestingly, where Sandra had 11 acting credits and Chris 6, Chris was elected head of the group). I can then say Annie and Chris both joined around the same time (as of TPTGW Chris had 6 acting credits and Annie had been crew for 3 years so presuming they do 2 shows a year they joined at the same time however the number of shows they put on is very unclear leading me to think Annie may have joined just before Chris). I can confidently say Max and Trevor joined after those 4 (it's stated that tptgw was Max's first year and apparently Trevor said he never wanted to work with them again leading me to believe it was his first time experiencing CDS). Then I would say confidently that Lucy joined after those 6. Then I would say Vanessa joined last, possibly once they changed from cornley polytechnic drama society to just cornley Drama Society (though I'm not 100% certain of the timeline)
Dennis and Jonathan are very difficult. Jonathan seems to have very little information about him based on my personal feelings I would put him about the same time as Lucy simply because PPGW is the first time I can remember seeing them both. Dennis apparently couldn't get into any other societies but I truly do not know where to place him. I'd like to put him quite late on because of how much he struggles but I truly do not know, he moves in with Robert eventually so I would argue he had been there for a while. Maybe somewhere between Chris and Max+Trevor?
Age becomes more difficult since you can go to uni at any age and courses vary in length. Seemingly Robert wasn't a student, once again placing him at the top age-wise. I'd then put Annie due to her odd backstory involving a husband and 2 children for which I'd assume she'd have to have lived for at least a few years past 18. Then Trevor because apparently PPGW was his final year at uni for the 3rd time running. Then I'd put Chris followed by Dennis then Jonathan based purely on vibes tbh(if anyone could find evidence to prove or disprove I would be eternally grateful!) then Max (tptgw was his first year I believe so I'm saying he's relatively young) [edit: I'm swapping max and Sandra, if tptgw was Max's first year and Sandra had already been there for 11 shows I'd say she's older than him] I'd put Sandra [4th] from the youngest because apparently she won a child's beauty pagent thing in 1998 making me think she's about Lucy's age (considering Robert was working at cornley 4 years later in 2002), followed by Vanessa because I still feel like Lucy is somewhat younger than the rest of them. I would place Lucy solidly at the bottom (she's seemingly significantly younger than Robert, though she may be similar in age to the likes of Max and Sandra if you believe there to be a large age gap between Robert and the rest of the group).
Oh yeah since I can finally post about it haha, the wondeful @savemefrommysolitude sent me this amazing care package that arrived on Sunday!! I now have a Mischief programme (and of og cast as well!) despite never seeing the show live haha. Thank you so much Kat!!! 💜
