Secondary Schools Theatre Festival
Each year, the West Virginia Theatre Conference invites West Virginia high schools to perform and compete during WVTC's annual conference. The secondary schools theatre festival has been and continues to be a vital part of the West Virginia Theatre Conference. Spirited presentations from high schools as far north as Oak Glen and as far south as Wyoming East have long joined hands for autumn weekends filled with theatre spectacle and educational opportunity.
In either late October or early November, high school students and their teachers gather to share a variety of educational theatre issues. Theatre problems, perceptions, and productions are explored in multiple venues and formats from formal productions to casual workshops, from impromptu meetings in a university hallway to scheduled conferences around a meeting table. Beginning with the raising of the grand drapery early Friday morning and ending with the grand finale of Saturday evening's curtain call, the secondary schools theatre festival, the pulse of the West Virginia Theatre Conference, continues to highlight theatre education with a vitality that speaks well of the secondary theatre programs throughout our state.
The adjudicated winner of The West Virginia Secondary Schools Theatre Festival is eligible to represent the state during a two-day theatre festival at the Southeastern Theatre Conference Annual Convention.
Contact Crystal Gibson, for more information.
Sign language or other personnel-based
accommodations require 30 day advance notice.