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It only takes one spark of love to change the world forever. Mabel Hubbard Bell was a strong, self-assured woman—bright, passionate, and a complete original. Despite a near-fatal case of childhood scarlet fever that cost her the ability to hear, she learned to talk and lip-read in multiple languages. At nineteen, she married a young inventor named Alexander Graham Bell and became the most significant influence in his life.This is Mabel's story, offering the unique perspective of a woman whose remarkable life was forever connected to her famous, distracted husband.

There's a great deal of rage underlying [Beautiful Man], but also many humorous elements, and so many things to admire about Shields's acute observations and inversions of expectation . . . Every new play from her is a challenge, and a treat.

In an effort to rekindle their spark, empty nesters Norm and Ruth book a trip to a familiar family campground, only to realize that it's now a nudist camp.

In this thrilling exploration of the intersections and divisions within liberalism, a young professor finds herself in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse.

Originally produced for the stage by Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland and For the Love of Learning, transVersing features some of Newfoundland’s most vibrant and necessary trans-youth voices. Gathering the work of Violet Drake, Daze Jefferies, Fionn Shea, Perin Squires, Taylor Stocks, and Dane Woodland, and including the dramatic text by Berni Stapleton and Sharon King-Campbell, transVersing is where Shakespeare meets slam poetry and the fiddle meets soapbox rant. These are the creative and courageous voices charting our course to understanding and social justice for all.

With an introduction by Sara Tilley
From playwright and poet Shannon Bramer comes Trapsongs, a collection of three dark comedies that navigate the realm of the surreal and absurd.

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Drama. Winner of the Chalmers Play Award. A rhapsodic blues tragedy. Harlem Duet could be the prelude to Shakepeare's Othello, and recounts the tale of Othello and his first wife Billie (yes, before Desdemona). Set in contemporary Harlem at the corner of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X boulevards, the play explores the space where race and sex intersect. Harlem Duet is Billie's story.

ELLE je suis devenue l'ombre de moi l'ombre qui s'efface ses contours qui disparaissent dans la noirceur qui monte.

Quinze femmes ordinaires de l'Est de Montréal se réunissent pour un marathon de collage d'un million de timbres-primes. C'est dans la cuisine de la gagnante que se rencontrent et se confrontent sa famille et ses voisines, et bien vite la fête tourne au drame. Dans des tableaux exubérants et tragicomiques, elles font entendre leurs misères, leurs espérances, leurs aliénation, leurs frustrations et leurs calomnies dans un délire amer.

Les quatre personnages de cette cantate du désespoir sont les instruments d'une partition musicale parlée. Seuls leurs mots entremêlés, tricotés les uns aux autres, nous parviennent du fond de leur abîme, écorchés comme leurs vies et lyriques comme leurs âmes. Quand monte cette musique de chambre douloureuse, traversée par un maesltröm de passions destructrices, on prend la mesure de la misère de Marie-Lou: entre la prison du travail qui abrutit son mari Léopold et l'enfer qu'est devenu leur couple, que lui reste-t-il?.