Courtesy of the PCLNA northern Ontario gothic, the play follows Beatrice “Beaver” Jersey as she learns to grow beyond her circumscribed world, struggling with her whacky extended family, her alcoholic father, and her chain-smoking ghost of a mother. (From the PCLN Website)
BEATRICE “BEAVER” JERSEY: Our heroine, age 12 in Act One, ages 11 and 17 in Act Two. Beatrice is somewhere after girl and before woman.
ROSE JERSEY: Mother to Beatrice, dead.
SILO: Father to Beatrice, former talc mine employee.
COWBOY: Friend to Silo, talc mine employee.
EDNA JERSEY: Grandmother to Beatrice; mother to Nora, Sima, and Rose.
NORA JERSEY: Aunt and guardian to Beatrice, the eldest sister.
SIMA JERSEY: Aunt to Beatrice, a dominatrix. [pronounced “See-ma”]
DORRIS DELISLO: Friend of the family. [pronounced “De-lie-lo”]
2000, Factory Theatre, Toronto
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