Vanessa Wilcock-Wynn-Carroway

"Join me in fiction!"

- Vanessa to Dennis

Vanessa Wilcock-Wynn-Carroway, or simply just Vanessa Carroway, is a member of Cornley Drama Society, who appears in The Goes Wrong Show. She is portrayed by Bryony Corrigan.

Personality
Vanessa is an example of an Ascended Extra, who before The goes wrong show, appeared as stagehand and minor/ background characters. As one of the most normal members of the cast, she often is the "Stright man" of the cast who is often mildly frustrated or anxious when things go wrong, but does not get angry like Chris Bean. She often desperately tries to keep the show on track such as protesting "Santa's" offer of a sherry due to her character being just a little girl.

When things goes wrong she seems unsure what she should be doing and isn't good at improvising which often results her doing things like just reading anything that's put in front of her like the telegrams in the Pilot, going ahead and killing her child when Jonathan is unable to get on the set to stop her or pretending to drink a Bear statue when she fails to get Dennis to pass her the beer.

In "Harper's Locket", the cast are sat down to pretending to have dinner, the actual food ended up on the floor, when Trevor falls through the Glass ceiling on to the table, becoming trouserless when the crew attemps to winch him backup by his trousers. The cast carry on the scence which requires Venessa to pepper the Roast and then use a meat thermometer to check the tempeture. Vanessa Peppers Trevour's bum insead and then aproaches him with the thermometer before Robert intervenes and stops her.

In the The Goes Wrong Show she is often the butt mockey of the cast, often getting repeatedly smashed in the face and forced to ad lib in languages she doesn't speak. A running joke when she's acting alongside Dennis is her having to correct him when he messes up, often having to feed him his next line or correct him when he mispronounces them. Another running joke is that despite her being a good actor she struggles to improvise when required. During the The Cornley Drama Festival she notes this and tries to run an improv class to improve but is unable to think of any lines and reverts back to the same two line scene with Annie. She tries to improvise with a proposal scence with Dennis and is shocked when Dennis thinks its a real proposal and thinks that they are now getting married.

She is not very good at languages, as shown in The Pilot when she had to try and speak French, Spanish and German. However, she does have an impressive singing voice and is able to keep up when the backing track is turned up too many octaves in The Spirit of Christmas. In "The Cornley Drama Festival Part 2" she is part of Chris's dancing play, paired to dance with Chris, and dances very well before she is thrown into a camera.

Dennis Tyde
Out of the cast members that appear in The Goes Wrong Show Vanessa is the one that gets most flustered with Dennis weird behaviour or when he forgets his lines or gets confused. This may be due to the fact that she's the newest member of the group and the other have gotten use to him. In "90 Degrees" there is a scence where Venessa's character asking for Dennis to pass her a can of beer that's on a table next to him but due to her American accent he thinks she's asking for him to pass him the Bear statue which is next to the Beer. Venessa makes several attempts to get him to understand and pass the right object just after multiple tries before she just resorts to pretending to drink the Bear statue.

In The Most Lamentable... Dennis forgets characters characters names and mixes up the character names with the cast names resulting in Vanessa trying to explain the difference between fiction and reality to him. In The Cornley Drama Festival Part 1, Vanessa tries to improvise a proposal scene with him, but Dennis doesn't realise she's acting, causing him to believe she's genuinely proposing to him.

Robert Grove
In "The Cornley Drama Festival Part 1" Robert runs an acting class where he lines up the rest of the Society's from best to worst based on their acting skills. Robert places her at number four meaning that he judges her as a good actor though she is possibly counts as number 3 after Chris is moved down the line.

Roles
Songs:
 * The Spirit of Christmas as Belle
 * The Pilot (Not the Pilot) as Camille Leclaire
 * A Trial to Watch as Becky Sandhurst (Prosecutor)
 * The Lodge as Emma
 * Harper's Locket as Mrs Hargreaves
 * 90 Degrees as Renee Burgess
 * The Nativity as Wise man, Shepherd and Donkey
 * Summer Once Again as Mother
 * The Most Lamentable... as Queen Isobel
 * There Is No Escape as Stu Malone/Mackenzie
 * The Cornley Drama Festival Part 1 as Herself/Ladybug -
 * The Cornley Drama Festival Part 2 as Herself/Mum/Mrs Carmichael
 * Dear Santa, Can You Help Me?

Trivia

 * Vanessa is the only principal character whose surname was not revealed, however on 13th August 2020 Henry Shields stated on his Twitter that the latest script had it written as "Wilcock-Wynn-Carroway, because it's silly".
 * She is one of the most helpful (but breaks character often because of it) because when the piano catches fire in The Nativity, she is one of the first to react with a fire blanket and a bucket of sand.
 * Her last name "Carroway" is similar to Caraway House, the location of the Goes Wrong Show episode The Pilot (Not the Pilot).
 * Vanessa was not Bryony Corrigan's first character in the Goes Wrong Extended Universe, as she played a BBC receptionist in A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong and was a Stage Crew Member in Peter Pan Goes Wrong. It is possible that Vanessa was the same character as the crew member and decided to go into acting, the same as Annie.