Eel Ground and Elsipogtog Students Prepare for NB Drama Fest

Drama students from Eel Ground/Elsipogtog Drama Club have performed their play, PDM...The Game Show, seven times in the past two weeks in preparation for the NB Drama Festival which will be held in Fredericton from May 11-13. The play focuses on the misuse of prescription drugs in native communities but the theme would be true for every community in Canada. Approximately 30 students from grades 5-8 are in the drama club. For Eel Ground students it will be the fourth consecutive year that students presented a play for adjudication at the provincial festival. Each year the play has focussed on a social issue in the community.  Earlier plays dealt with  social issues such as teen suicide and the effects of alcohol on unborn babies.

The schools will be producing a video of the play, PDM...The Game Show, in June, 2009.

Copies of the play will be available to the public in September, 2009.