Ahead of a regional competition in Hamilton, the Wallaceburg District Secondary School drama club will put on a public performance of its award-winning play to raise funds for the trip.
The club will perform The Boy in the Treehouse on Wednesday at 7 pm in the school’s gymnasium.
The club won the Lambton-Kent section of the National Theater School Drama Festival this month and will move to South Regional festival in Hamilton April 24-26.
To support the costs of the trip, the cast and crew are raising money to support the club.
This is the first regional competition for the Wallaceburg high school.
The play is about a boy named Simon, who has a white father and an Ojibwa mother. His mother dies when he is young and he decides to reconnect with that part of his culture and ancestry.
The Wallaceburg production features an all-Indigenous cast.
WDSS also won awards for set design and use of space, production of promise and acting at the local competition. Acting nodes went to Turtle Loulas, Halle Miskokomon and Biidaas Chiblow.
For other ways to support the club, call the school at 519-627-3368.