{"id":26814,"date":"2026-10-02T16:41:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heritagelsl.ca\/?post_type=cpt_events&#038;p=26814"},"modified":"2026-10-07T14:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:12:50","slug":"la-belle-mere-the-stepmother-in-rimouski","status":"publish","type":"cpt_events","link":"https:\/\/heritagelsl.ca\/fr\/events\/la-belle-mere-the-stepmother-in-rimouski\/","title":{"rendered":"La Belle-m\u00e8re &#8211; The Stepmother in Rimouski"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>In the aftermath of a crisis within her blended family, a stepmother weighs up her choices, past, present, and future. Fragment by fragment, she pieces together her story, with the honesty of a woman with everything to lose and everything to gain. Using words as a mirror, she tries to see herself as she is, not in the eyes of the society around her, but in the eyes of those who love her and who she loves.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heritage LSL is proud to present an abridged spoken word version of <strong>The Stepmother<\/strong>, followed by a Q&amp;A. <strong>The Stepmother<\/strong> is an international play that offers a complete re-reading of the stepmother archetype, a subject of the collective Western imagination for centuries. The challenges, duties, responsibilities, stakes, and freedoms of the role are weighed and analyzed without complacency, in this dynamic suite of narrative poems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"509\" height=\"390\" src=\"https:\/\/heritagelsl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Prevost-McCrum.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26817 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heritagelsl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Prevost-McCrum.png 509w, https:\/\/heritagelsl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Prevost-McCrum-300x230.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 100vw, 509px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With <strong>Am\u00e9lie Pr\u00e9vost,<\/strong> a spoken word artist and author who toured Canada and France for several years, and <strong>Rachel McCrum<\/strong> a poet, performer, editor, author and curator. Both are recipients of awards related to poetry and performance.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018<em>The move towards honesty and openness about the tough realities of stepparenting is exactly what makes La Belle-m\u00e8re \/\/ The Stepmother a celebration of this often demonized familial role\u2026both on the page and the stage, this is a feminist project<\/em>.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Klara du Plessis, Montreal Review of Books<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The show will be in English and it will last 45 minutes + a session of Q&amp;A hosted by Heritage LSL\u2019s Joana Projecto Garcia. This event is suitable for ages 12 years old and above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With thanks to our funders:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"129\" src=\"https:\/\/heritagelsl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SRQEA_imprime_process-300x129.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heritagelsl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SRQEA_imprime_process-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/heritagelsl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SRQEA_imprime_process-768x329.png 768w, https:\/\/heritagelsl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SRQEA_imprime_process-1024x439.png 1024w, https:\/\/heritagelsl.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SRQEA_imprime_process.png 1036w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26847,"template":"","cpt_events_cat":[],"cpt_events_location":[],"class_list":["post-26814","cpt_events","type-cpt_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>La Belle-m\u00e8re - The Stepmother in Rimouski - Heritage Lower Saint Lawrence<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/heritagelsl.ca\/events\/la-belle-mere-the-stepmother-in-rimouski\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"La Belle-m\u00e8re - The Stepmother in Rimouski - Heritage Lower Saint Lawrence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In the aftermath of a crisis within her blended family, a stepmother weighs up her choices, past, present, and future. 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