Tupper Lake High School's “You Can’t Beat the House.” (Enterprise photo — Jessica Collier)

Over the next three weeks, high schools in the Tri-Lakes will be presenting their fall plays, starting with Tupper Lake this weekend, with Saranac Lake’s the next weekend and Lake Placid’s running the following weekend. To kick off the string of theatrical events, the Tupper Lake Middle-High School will mount “You Can’t Beat the House” by Pat Cook. The play is a screwball comedy of mistaken identities that follows a pair of burglars who break into a suburban house with intentions of robbing it. The house, however, is empty and when people show up looking into buying it, they are forced to pretend they are real estate agents. To complicate things even more, the real real estate agents show up and the robbers are left to talk their way out of the situation. Directed by high school English teacher Melissa Savage, the play is set in the modern-day suburbs and features ten students between seventh and 12th grade. “They have a lot of enthusiasm,” Savage sai.