BRUNSWICK COUNTY — A production from a local playwright is coming to life from a youth drama club that ceased to exist last year but is finding its reinvention in 2026.
While funding woes ended up culling South Brunswick High School Drama Club from the curriculum last year, it relaunched as an afterschool program. It’s overseen by the direction of Rosina Whitfield, who wrote the original production “As the Bard Turns.”
Whitfield penned the show when she was a theater camp director in Pennsylvania and said in a press release her work isn’t marking the afterschool program’s debut due to “ego,” but rather the students chose this script out of eight. According to show notes, the play is follows “two modern day women, one has been away and has missed episodes of her favorite TV show. Her friend brings her up-to-date by describing the plot of a Shakespeare play and then the action fades into a scene from that play.”
“As the Bard Turns” will make its local debut on Thursday, March 19, 4 p.m., at Brunswick High School, 380 Cougar Road in Southport. It will continue to run throughout the weekend, on Friday, March 20, 7 p.m. and Sunday, March 22, 3 p.m. Tickets cost $10 for adults and $5 for students, available at the door. It’s also an all-ages show.
The group will take it to the Brunswick County High School Theatre Festival on March 24 as well.
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