Danvers High School Academy Theatre Presents "Wit" and Hosts METG Semi-Finals on Saturday, March 19, 2016

The Danvers High School Academy Theatre (DHS ACTS) presents the one-act play “Wit” on March 19, 2016, at Danvers High School, 60 Cabot Road, Danvers, MA. DHS ACTS will perform at 1:30 PM as part of the semi-final round of the Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild (METG) High School Drama Festival, and will also act as festival hosts at DHS that day, where a total of six schools will compete, starting at 9 AM. Admission for one show or all six is $10 per ticket, available at the door. For more information, please visit http://www.danversacademytheatre.org/.

The other schools competing at DHS on March 19 include Acton-Boxboro Regional High School, Andover High School, Hingham High School, Malden Catholic, and Taunton High School. Competition will also take place at six other sites statewide the same day. Two schools from each semi-finals competition site will move on to compete in the finals, held in Boston March 31 – April 2. Last year, DHS ACTS was a State Finals Winner of the METG’s 2015 Drama Festival with its production of “Tribes.”

"Wit" is a one-act play by Margaret Edson that won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. If you found out you were going to die, would you be satisfied with the way you lived your life? More importantly, would you be happy with the way you treated people? "Wit" follows Dr. Vivian Bearing, a college English professor with stage four ovarian cancer, as she examines these questions moments before her death.

A special preview performance of “Wit” takes place at 8 PM on Thursday, March 17, immediately following parent-teacher conferences at DHS. All are welcome and encouraged to attend to support the cast and crew of nearly 70 DHS students, under the direction of Kyla Moulton (Director) and Tracie Ewing (Technical Director). At this performance, there is no admission fee, but donations will be accepted for the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.

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Visit http://www.danversacademytheatre.org/ for more information.