Stephen Massicotte's MARY'S WEDDING Ends Run at Portland Stage, 4/25

Stephen Massicotte's MARY'S WEDDING will end its run at the Portland Stage on April 25th.

A passionate and heart-breaking love story about a young farmer and his bride-to-be who are separated when he enlists in World War I. Mary and Charlie tell an unforgettable story from the quiet after a prairie thunderstorm to the terrors of the trenches in this award-winning drama about two lovers who must surrender their fate to the uncertainties of tumultuous times.

Stephen Massicott was raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario. After receiving his MFA from the University of Calgary, Massicotte wrote several one-act plays produced in fringe theaters, including The Boy's Own Jedi Handbook, which was written in response his memories of the 1977 Star Wars frenzy. Massicotte also worked as an actor, and has performed in several of his own works, which has influenced his writing. After five years of preparation and reworking, Massicotte completed Mary's Wedding in 2000, his most successful play to date. His fifth play and one of his latest works, The Oxford Roof Climber's Rebellion, premiered at the Tarragon Theater in Toronto in 2006 and follows the lives of Robert Graves and Lawrence of Arabia after WWI. As a writer, Massicotte's work is characterized by the expression of deep emotion and feeling, as exemplified in the touchingly personal scenes of Mary's Wedding.

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