BAKER CITY — There’s a problem in the Hundred Acre Wood.

A big enough problem, in fact, that Christopher Robin has left a note for his friends:

”Mergency Meeting

Kinely Be On Time

This Means You.

Gone Out. Backson.”

The gang gathers — Pooh and Piglet, Rabbit and his relatives, Kanga and Roo.

And Eeyore, of course, moping and sad that he doesn’t have a house and it’s awfully cold to stand outside at three in the morning.

“However,” he said, brightening just a bit, “we haven’t had any earthquakes lately.”

And so begins “The House at Pooh Corner,” a children’s production of A.A. Milne’s story from 1928 presented by Eastern Oregon Regional Theatre.

Performances are Sept. 20-22. Shows start at 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and 3 p.m. on Sunday, at the theater, 2101 Main St.

Tickets are $10 adults, $8 EORT members and $5 for students. Purchase tickets online at easternoregonregionaltheatre.com, by phone at 541-523-9652 or at the theater.

School, and running away

Christopher Robin called the “mergency meeting” because he has the most terrible news, “something dreadful.”

He has to leave. To be educated.

(This is reiterated when he reveals that “Backson” on the sign isn’t a person, but rather a misspelling of “back soon.”)

But what if he doesn’t leave? What if, instead, the friends all pack a bandana and run away?

“We shall go to the South Pole and live there forever and ever,” Christopher Robin says.

It sounds like a grand idea, so the animals scatter to pack. Piglet shows up with one galosh — filled with haycorns.

Suddenly, Owl swoops in with the most terrible news that a terrifying new creature has arrived in the Hundred Acre Wood.

A very bouncy animal by the name of Tigger who, it turns out, doesn’t like to eat honey or thistles or haycorns.

And how, the others despair, can they get her to stop bouncing?

Maxwell Carlson plays Christopher Robin. And where, the audience may wonder, did the 10-year-old learn his British accent?

“’The BFG,’” he said with a smile, citing Roald Dahl’s book about a Big Friendly Giant.

Carlson is joined onstage by Kate Norton (Pooh), Hazel Crowell (Piglet), Shem Carlson (Eeyore), Stella Carlson (Kanga), Scarlett Scott (Roo), Riley Schuette (Rabbit), Rachel Fargo (Owl), Obsidian Adams (Tigger), and a passel of Rabbit’s relatives played by Olive Carlson, Regina Flores, Maya Keffer, Mayci Crowther, Ellie Bagenski and Ari Kinder.