Framingham High Competes In Drama Festival Finals Tonight

For the 10th time in a dozen years, the Framingham High School Drama Company will compete in the finals of the state's drama festival.

Framingham High is scheduled to perform The Diviners at 7 tonight at the Back Bay Events Center, the old John Hancock Hall, at 180 Berkeley St. in Boston. There are three high schools performing tonight. Tickets, if available, are $20-30 for the trio of performances.

There are 14 high schools that qualified for the finals of the 83rd Annual Massachusetts Drama Festival, sponsored by the Massachusetts Educational Theater Guild. The winner will not be announced until the awards ceremony on Saturday at 8 p.m.

The Diviners centers around Buddy Layman, a boy who suffered brain damage in a drowning incident that killed his mother but has the ability to find water and CC Showers, a former preachers and stranger to the Indiana community where Buddy lives with his father and sister.

There are a dozen students in the cast, but more than 70 students involved in the production said Donna Wresinski, who is directing and producing the play with Chris Brindley.

The production's stage manager is Kelsey Kilduff.

The cast includes:

• Buddy Layman - John Llewellyn
• Jennie Mae Layman - Katie Russo 
• Ferris Layman - Jacob Meyers 
• CC Showers - Jackson Cote 
• Norma Henshaw - Lindsay Reamer 
• Darlene Henshaw-  Noel Shay
• Goldie Short - Katerina Kounadis
• Basil Bennett - Zach Colten 
• Luella Bennett - Jenny Paulhus 
• Melvin Wilder - Tristan Burke 
• Dewey Maples - Scott Jacobs 
• Ellegy Callie Llewellyn and Grace Graham 
• Dulcimer Player - Sarah Rosenthal