Cape Breton High School Theatre Festival
1250 Grand Lake Road B1P 6 L2 Sydney, NS, Canada

Come out tonight to support Glace Bay High during the opening night of the Cape Breton High School Theatre Festival! Featuring plays written by Maxwell Slade and the grade 12 Drama class, tonight’s shows are definitely not to be missed

Prior to this event, the only high school theatre festival has been the Nova Scotia High School Drama Festival, held in Halifax, each year, says Drama teacher and co-organizer of the festival, Mike McPhee. Cost and equity issues marginalized students from outside the Halifax region, so Todd Hiscock and I built a program that Cape Breton students will truly benefit from.

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We would be thrilled to have you join us at the Boardmore Playhouse the weekend of May 17th for our first ever Cape Breton High School Theatre Festival! Come spend your time celebrating these talented students from Sydney Academy, Riverview High School, Cape Breton Highlands Education Centre, Glace Bay High School, and the CBVRCE Middle School Musical Theatre Ensemble! Friday, May 17... Glace Bay Blueberry Pancakes Written and Directed by Maxwell Slade What happens when the life you wish for doesn’t quite turn out to be the way you’d hoped? Is there any going back? We Leave Conceived and Created through improvisation by the GBHS Semester II Drama 12 Class The third production of this class, this collaborative creation examines the lengths that some young people in our community will go, to become free...even if it costs someone else everything. Saturday, May 18 Highland Academy Lighthouse Written by Bruce Miller 10 years after almost making it big, the members of a band reunite for a radio interview and reflect upon why they went their separate ways. Dear Chuck Written by Jonathan Dorf Teenagers are typically caught in the middle they’re not quite adults, but they’re definitely no longer children. Through a series of scenes and monologues, we meet an eclectic group of teen characters who are trying to communicate with that wannabe special someone, coping with the loss of a classmate, battling controlling parents, swimming for that island of calm in the stormy sea of technology and more. What they all have in common is the search for their Chuck, that elusive moment of knowing who they are. Sunday, May 19 Riverview Jaded Written by Brittany Fagan-Steele A car accident has happened involving a group of friends. One of the girls in the vehicle was killed. It is now 6 months later and the group of friends are all dealing with this incident in different ways. They come together to remember their friend and to forgive each other. Sydney Academy The Worst Word in the World Written by Scott Sharplin, in collaboration with the members of the Sydney Academy Drama Group. Running time: Approximately 30 minutes The concept of identity is explored through a group of students who interact across the span of an average school day. Through the interactions of a number of characters, we see how the social constructs of identities (such as nerd, theatre geek, emo kid, princess, jock, clown, and even teacher) impact how characters see each other and themselves. CBVRCE Middle School Musical Theatre Ensemble