Submitted PhotoLowndes High School Off-Broadway cast and crew won awards, including best ensemble, in theatre competition with 'Enchanted April.'

VALDOSTA – Lowndes High School Off-Broadway received more than ovations last weekend.

The theatre troupe won top awards during the Georgia Theatre Conference in Savannah, said Sheri Dorsett, LHS Off-Broadway director.

LHS Off-Broadway performed playwright Matthew Barber’s, “Enchanted April.”

The romantic comedy has an emphasis on comedy with the romance being four women’s discovery of the magic within themselves and their lives.

The quick-moving play follows two women looking for an adventurous escape from their dreary lives in rainy England, their dull marriages, their personal heartaches and the disappointment they have found in their day-to-day lives in the years following World War I.

They believe a month-long holiday to sunny Italy may be the cure.

And they are right.

The show was noted as a one-act play competing against 16 top drama programs from the region, Dorsett said.

Student Lawson Cribb won best actress, she said.

“Enchanted April” cast and crew won best ensemble.

Samantha Calel was named to the all-star cast.

“We also had five students who auditioned for college and university theatre programs,” Dorsett said. “All five received multiple call-backs – 47 – with many, many Southeastern theatre programs including Columbus State, Kennesaw, LaGrange, Valdosta State University, Young Harris, Shorter, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia Southern and more.”

Participating students included Cribb, Caleb Chaney, Rhyonna Dewey, Calel, Liz Robinson, Isaiah Harris, Caylee Lawson, Trevor Clayton, Melba Miller, Houston VanLandingham, Eli Beal, Kaylee Huff, Ellie Doyle, Tristan Chastain, Alicia Stogin.