It is 1810 and fifteen year old Jane is about to meet her fiancée and get her period. Both for the first time. And at the same time.
Tilly, Miah and Safa are three young women who endure debilitating period pain. Following an adolescence with little menstrual education, support or relief, they navigate the physical and emotional toll of intensely painful periods while trying to maintain a normal life.
As millions of women and girls take shots and pills to stop their periods, the meaning of menstruation changes. Current marketing of hormonal birth control (Depo-Provera, Seasonale, Seasonique, Lybrel, Anya) attracts customers by promising freedom from monthly periods. For many consumers, menstrual suppression eliminates painful monthly flow, giving them more control in their lives. For others, menstrual suppression represents a frightening shift in thinking about the human body and another dangerous experiment on woman’s health. Period: The End of Menstruation? interrogates the cultural and medical side effects of suppression before 'the curse' disappears.
A woman sailing solo across the Atlantic finds herself lost and on the brink of starvation and she must use her wits to figure out her next meal.
After having "left the dress" in her previous show, Caroline Vigneaux finds herself naked like Eve in the Garden of Eden. In her turn, she bites the apple, the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge... And as she takes a liking to it, she bites again and everything goes haywire: she discovers the truth about secrets that have never been discussed, and settles down at the Grand Point Virgule to reveal everything, even if it means breaking ancestral taboos!
A middle school girl's sudden shift into womanhood sparks an exploration of the intersection of the mind and body.
When a young girl becomes jealous of her little brother for receiving money from the tooth fairy, she hatches a peculiar plan to cash in.
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