Belle Moral

But whose ear is it? One of Canada’s most popular playwrights and novelists, Ann-Marie MacDonald is especially celebrated for her love of words, words, words. This, of course, makes her a perfect fit for the Shaw Festival, with a piece which mixes comedy, mystery and heady doses of turn-of-the-century scientific theorizing, all deftly woven together as we follow the stories of ahead-of-her-time bluestocking Pearl, her feckless shortbread-eating brother Victor, the loyal if eccentric family retainer Flora, the scary Dr. Reid and… Who is in the attic? Is this a Scottish whodunnit? A comic piercing of stereotypes? A gothic mystery? A plea for diversity and tolerance? Belle Moral: A Natural History is all of the above and more.