MAT play festival starts Friday

The drawings for the third annual Montana Actors Theatre’ 24-Hour Play Festival is set for Friday in Viszla Brewing followed by playwriting and rehearsals with the productions Saturday at The Little Theatre in Montana State University-Northern's Cowan Hall.

“What it is, you get a bunch of writers, a bunch of directors and a bunch of actors and you give them 24 hours — they have to build a play and perform it,” MAT artistic director Grant Olson said.

“So the night of the drawing, which is Friday night, we have all the directors’, actors’, writers’ (names) in buckets and you match up one writer...