PVMHS Actors Performing in Festival Preliminaries on Saturday

Peabody Veterans Memorial High School actors will be performing at the Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild’s High School Festival Preliminaries on Saturday, March 1.

The schedule of performances on Saturday at St. John’s Prep features PVMHS performing How I Learned to Drive at 5:30 p.m.

The festival includes 115 one-act plays at locations throughout the state. Judges recognize acting and technical design at all three levels – preliminary, semifinal and state. Two schools will be chosen at the State Festival later this month to represent Massachusetts in the New England Drama Festival, which takes place in Vermont in April.

Here is the schedule at St. John’s Prep:

9 a.m. – Wakefield High School, The Glass Menagerie

10 a.m. – Swampscott High School, The Laramie Project

11:15 a.m. – North Shore Technical High School, The Strength of Our Spirit

12:15 p.m. – Amesbury High School, Dear Mr. Woodwell

2 p.m. – St. John’s Prep, bobrauschenbergamerica

3 p.m. – North Middlesex Regional High School, Almost, Maine

4:30 p.m. – Nazareth Academy, Whacked

5:30 p.m. – Peabody Veterans Memorial High School, How I Learned to Drive

Tickets are $10 and can only be purchased at the door. Check out the guild’s site for more information.