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Join us for four play readings, part of the 20th Annual Women's Work Festival. For more information about this year's many exciting events, and to register to attend, please visit our website: https://www.womensworkfestival.ca/womens-work-festival-2026.html. We can't wait to celebrate twenty years of theatre with you!March 3, 7pm: "PAZ" by Alicia Payne, with dramaturgy by Sara Tilley: In PAZ, a child goes missing after her Filipina nanny is fired.
March 4, 7pm: "Modern Vintage" by Amy House, with dramaturgy by Donna Butt: Lorraine and Ethel, sisters in their sixties, are living in their childhood hometown, a small to medium sized town in Newfoundland and Labrador called Port Might. The play opens with Ethel in their family home of over one hundred years, sitting at a small table applying her make-up. The house was left to her by their brother who recently died. Ethel has just had a big Flee Market and has sold a lot of the contents of the house. This morning, Lorraine enters to find furniture dismantled and the house in a state of flux and disarray. Ethel tells Lorraine she is leaving, and she is selling the house. This shocks Lorraine who had great plans of her own for the family home. Through their conversation, arguments, and reflections, we get a glimpse into their lives, their hopes - realized and dashed, paths taken and not taken, and their relentless search to make sense of it all.
March 5, 7pm: "I Don't Feel Pretty / Chu pas cute" by Nancy Kenny, with dramaturgy by Annie Valentina: I Don't Feel Pretty/Chu pas cute is a bilingual (English/French), absurdist dark comedy taking place inside the fractured mind of an alcoholic on a bender. Through spoken-word poetry underscored by the greatest pop hits of the 90s and early 00s, it explores identity, addiction, isolation, motherhood, and intergenerational pain. But in, like, a funny way.
March 6, 7pm: "To Our Roots" by Jamie S. Merrigan, with dramaturgy by Lara Lewis: To Our Roots was inspired by Jamie's close relationship with his grandmother and his experience with being trans in Newfoundland. It tells the story of Aster and their Nanny Hilda. Aster is visiting home, having been away working as an actor in Toronto. Their Nanny Hilda is struggling with the death of her own mother, and is working on assembling a family tree. As the two delve through boxes left by Great Nanny, they discover family secrets and test the strength of their relationship as they discover what they have been hiding from each other.
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Thanks to this year’s sponsors and partners:
Canadian Heritage - Building Communities Through Art and Heritage and Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program, Government of Newfoundland - Department of Tourism, Arts, Recreation and Culture and Department of Jobs, Growth and Rural Development, City of St. John's, Music NL, College of North Atlantic, Arts NL, Resource Centre for the Arts & LSPU Hall, Playwrights Guild of Canada - Play Connect, Centra, Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre, ARC-NL, TODOS Productions, Stephenville Theatre Festival, Modo Yoga, IceberGallery, Anna Templeton Centre, Wonderbolt Productions, St. John’s International Film Festival, White Rooster Theatre, and Persistence Theatre.
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