Drama Club To Stage The Shadow Box Friday Night

will preview its entry into the Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild's annual one-act play competition Friday night.

For the last few months, the drama company's students have been working hard to put together its entry, The Shadow Box by Michael Cristofer.

"This is a new take on our usual festival spin - a small, intimate contemporary piece, with only nine actors," wrote Framingham High School Drama Company President Katie Grindeland in an email to alumni and supporters. "But a crew of 50 earnest, eager students has put this production together, and it is arguably one of our best yet."

The nine-member cast is Zachary Scott, Mikey Russo, Scott Jacobs, Olivia Wiles, Connor Fallon, Conor Dennin, Mackenzie Shay, Lindsay Ortmeyer and Katie Russo.

The Shadow Box, which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the Tony Award for best play in 1977, takes place in three vacation cabins on the grounds of a hospital over a 24-hour period. Play looks at three families with a member at a hospice for cancer, each of whom is dying.

The Framingham High School Drama Company is holding a benefit performance of The Shadow Box Friday, March 1 at 7 p.m.

The show runs about 40 minutes. Following the performance, there will be a discussion with cast and crew.

All tickets are $10 and can be purchased either at the door or online at showtix4u.com

The preliminary round of the state competition begins Saturday, March 2 at Holliston High.

Framingham High has done well in the annual competition.