Wareham High School will host Drug Story Theater, Inc. who will perform "The Price You Pay," a show created and performed by teenagers in the early stages of recovery from drugs and alcohol.

The performance beings at 7:00 p.m. on May 2 in the Wareham High School Auditorium. It is a free public performance and all members of the community are invited to attend. Children under the age of 13 should be accompanied by a guardian.

Drug Story Theater, Inc. (DST) takes teenagers in the early stages of recovery from drugs and alcohol, teaches them improvisational theater, and engages them in psychodrama, to explore their personal stories. The teens then create their own shows about the seduction of, addiction to, and recovery from drugs and alcohol. They weave their stories into a theatrical piece and perform for middle and high school audiences so the treatment of one becomes the prevention of many.

Drug Story Theater’s approach to decreasing adolescent substance abuse capitalizes on and integrates current knowledge of adolescent brain development into all stages of the program: from therapeutic group sessions, improvisational exercises, and family involvement, to story development, script writing, and rehearsing, culminating in performing the teen’s own stories in front of live audiences

You’ll see no final curtain, because the show focuses on connection. DST teens reach out, taking questions from the audience.

They share their stories, illustrating the price of choosing drugs and alcohol, and educating peer audiences about why teenagers are all at such high risk. DST performers learn to challenge themselves with positive risks. Success strengthens their recovery, while helping others increases their sense of value.