The Franklin High School Theatre Company will present the one-act play Flowers for Algernon, as its submission to the Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild (METG) Drama Festival preliminary competition. Tickets for the show are available for March 1st, 2024, at 7 p.m. and March 8th, 2024, at 7 p.m. Visit http://our.show/1pi252lj for more information.

The production is about the compelling story of Charlie, an intellectually disabled man, and the strange interweaving of his life with that of Algernon, a mouse. Experimental surgery has been performed on Algernon increasing his intelligence fourfold. The operation is then conducted on Charlie, whose intelligence rapidly increases to that of a genius, far more intelligent than his teacher, Alice Kinnian, or the doctors who created the operating technique. 

As Charlie approaches the peak of his brilliance, Algernon shows frightening symptoms of regression. The play becomes a race against time in which Charlie attempts to keep his new intelligence long enough to save himself and thus continue what he and Alice have found. Featuring students Reece Lorenzo, Bella Nuckolls, Colin Joyce, Brandi Dumas and many others!

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