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Drug Story Theater’s The Price You Pay delivers powerful, real-life stories direct from teens struggling with drug and alcohol abuse in a unique and innovative approach to prevention. The improvisational theater-style production integrates teens in recovery, their parents and information about adolescent brain development to inform and educate audiences. The work the teens do with Drug Story Theater aids in their progress and encourages them to lead productive, healthy lives as young adults. Sharing their stories about the seduction and addiction to substances also helps them sow seeds of prevention, especially among peers. “They are addicts, recovering ones, taking their stories onstage in the hope others will shun the path they chose,” says Drug Story Theater founder Dr. Joseph Shrand. Join us for this compelling and timely production.
Full details and tickets: https://zeiterion.org/drug-story-theater/
Thursday, February 9, 7:00pm – $5
- Performance of “The Price You Pay” by Drug Story Theater
- Resource tables in lobby
- Prayer flags designed by Dartmouth HS students hung in lobby. Blank prayer flags available for audience to design and leave for display at May 11 AHA! night
- Clinicians on hand for audience members who may need support
- “I See, I Feel” prompt: sticky notes that will be transformed into an art installation
- Post-performance Q& A with cast/audience
- Acknowledgement of recovery and survivor community members in attendance
- Post-performance community “hug” from NB Police Chief Joseph Cordeiro
- Expected audience: parents, families, athletes from NBHS, recovery community, survivors, community groups
Drug Story Theater performance for schools – Friday, Mar 24
- SchoolTime performance of The Price You Pay by Drug Story Theater
- Post-performance Q& A with cast/audience
- Pre- and post-performance assessment of students understanding of subject
- Clinicians on hand for audience members who may need support
Creative Expression Project – May 11 AHA!
- An exhibit of prayer flags and art created by the recovery community and students who attended the show.
