The inaugural Gopher Conference One Act Play Festival will be held on Saturday, Jan. 20 at Medford High School. The six schools that have One Act Play this year will present their MSHSL competition play. The event will begin at 10 a.m..

The Minnesota State High School League yearly competition begins with subsection contests on Jan. 27. This leads to section contests the next weekend, followed by state competition Feb. 8 and 9.

The Gopher Conference Event is a festival. Two judges will give oral and written critiques of each play, but no scores are recorded. No champion for the event is named. The conference will name a Gopher Conference All-Conference One-Act Play Team. 

The performance is open to the public and admission will be per regular Gopher Conference event ($6/$4).