Winnipeg Broadway Theatre
This powerful new musical follows the extraordinary rise and heartbreaking exploitation of the Dionne quintuplets, born in the small farming town of Corbeil, Ontario, in 1934.
After their unprecedented birth inspires a struggling nation, government leaders and medical authorities seize custody under the guise of protection, transforming the infants into international sensations and the centerpiece of a booming tourist attraction known as QUINTLAND. When wartime interest fades and political motives shift, the girls are finally sent home after eight years, only to face further trauma in a household fractured by loss.
Bound by sisterhood, the quintuplets remain determined to move from a childhood that belonged to the world to an adulthood that finally belonged to themselves.