Playwright Stewart Lemoine combines drama with hilarity in a play that tells a speculative story of legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt's trip to Edmonton in 1913, where she performed before two packed houses at the Empire Theatre.
Stewart Lemoine was born in Winnipeg, MB. Since 1982, he has been the artistic director of the Edmonton theatre company, Teatro La Quindicina, with whom he has premiered over fifty plays. In addition, Lemoine has taught playwriting for Edmonton Public Schools and Theatre Alberta, and has written and directed works for young performers at the Citadel Theatre, the University of Alberta's Drama Department, and Grant MacEwan Community College Theatre Arts. Other published works by Lemoine include Cocktails at Pam's and Evelyn Strange (0-88754-539-4), and A Teatro Trilogy (1-896300-80-4). Lemoine is a five-time winner of Edmonton's Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for playwriting (most recently for At the Zenith of the Empire). He has also won Toronto's Dora Moore Award and is the recipient of a Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal.
