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Flowers
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Author: Deborah Porter Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press (cover image may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 76 Pub. Date: 1993 ISBN-10: 1551737086 ISBN-13: 9781551737089 Cast Size: 5 female
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Flowers
is a full-length
drama by Deborah Porter. Can five ever be one? In 1934, a
woman in northern Ontario gives birth to identical quintuplets and so begins
the plaintive struggle for uniqueness in a world of fives. Plucked
from pages of Canadian history, Flowers is a play inspired by
the lives of the Dionne quintuplets.
Flowers investigates the
challenge of 'becoming', as five adult sisters – quintuplets
– strive to find a singular identity in the aftermath of their
childhood and celebrity. A northern Ontario woman gives birth to
identical quintuplets in 1934, and the resulting celebrity changes the whole
Paquette family's lifes. Many years later, the identical sisters return home to
visit their dying mother. Five times the fun, five times the tragedy
– in a flood of memory and image, their lives are re-lived as the
women, through Sylvie, try to make sense of their fiveness. The
tyranny of conformity is seldom more vivid than in Flowers, a
fictionalized tale of the Dionne quintuplets.
Flowers premiered
in 1993 at The Canadian Stage Company's Berkley Street Theatre in
Toronto. Since then the
play has been successfully staged at several professional theatres
across Canada and
has been performed in college theatre productions as a showcase of
student talent.
Cast: 5 female (doubling)
What people say:
"A beautifully crafted play
... a remarkable piece of Canadian theatre." — London
Scene
"...really the best new play
I've seen in a long time... It's true theatre." — CBC
Radio
About the Playwright:
Deborah Porter Taylor is a Canadian playwright, director,
and dramaturg whose plays have been produced throughout Canada. She
is a Toronto expatriate currently living on the West Coast.
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