One For Sorrow, Two For Joy

Juanita Dawn – Long Grass Studio | Canada 

Created by an all-female team, this show unfolds through beautifully handcrafted puppets and captivating original music. Like a whimsical carnival ride wound up and released, it tells the bittersweet story of Willow Mae O’Reily — a woman alone on the prairies of western Canada who, born at the turn of the 20th century, tosses caution to the untamed prairie winds and embraces a life of her own, first as a nurse on the battlefields of WWI, then as a farmer in the foothills of Alberta.