Les Filles du QUOI?

Show Overview

written & performed by Abby Paige
directed by Kim Allen Bent

The new one-woman show by acclaimed Vermont performer, Abby Paige, is an autobiographical exploration of ancestry, identity, and storytelling.

An American with French-Canadian roots immigrates to Canada, a century after her great-grandparents immigrated in the opposite direction.
She has questions:

What does “francophone” mean?
What’s the deal with the queen?
Why is Jack Kerouac the only Franco-American anyone’s ever heard of?
Is Céline Dion a witch?

With this comedic, bilingual one-woman show, writer and performer Abby Paige looks for answers, crossing the borders between English and French, the past and the present, the living and the dead, history (L’Histoire) and stories (les histoires).

The show is bilingual, but you don't have to be!
Not only is Abby an amazing actor, but subtitles will be in use (both in-person and live-stream) to aid in your understanding of the lines spoken in French.

Les Filles du QUOI? has received development support from the Canada Council for the Arts and the New Brunswick Arts Board.

Les Filles Du Quoi? plays 7:30pm Thu/Fri/Sat; and 2pm Sun June 16–26, 2022
due to multiple requests, the window to purchase ON Demand Recording Tickets has been extended to July 1

Production Team

Les Filles Du Quoi? written & performed by ABBY PAIGE

directed by KIM A BENT

scenic design by CLAIBORNE H COYLE

lighting & projections design by SAMUEL J BIONDOLILLO and JAMIEN LUNDY FORREST

costume design & construction by NANCY SMITH

textile design & construction by DANIELLE HOGAN

stage manager: MARISSA MATTOGNO

production assistant: SARAH MENARD

(poster photo courtesy of Sarah Sarty; preliminary costume design Rachel Davies)

Scoop Info

Check out this article in The Times Argus about the show!

"Ultimately, the show is about the borderlands of identity. Our sense of self shifts when we cross the boundary between countries, between languages, and also, in some sense, between times.
The poet Alice Notley says,
'I want to go as far back in time as / will comfort by causing my life not to have been. / But can never get far enough.”

I want to understand where I come from, beyond genetics, beyond genealogy, beyond history.'

- Abby Paige

"People who imagine that history flatters them are impaled on their history like a butterfly on a pin and become incapable of seeing or changing themselves, or the world.”

Les Filles du QUOI?

Show Overview

written & performed by Abby Paige
directed by Kim Allen Bent

The new one-woman show by acclaimed Vermont performer, Abby Paige, is an autobiographical exploration of ancestry, identity, and storytelling.

An American with French-Canadian roots immigrates to Canada, a century after her great-grandparents immigrated in the opposite direction.
She has questions:

What does “francophone” mean?

What’s the deal with the queen?

Why is Jack Kerouac the only Franco-American anyone’s ever heard of?

Is Céline Dion a witch?

With this comedic, bilingual one-woman show, writer and performer Abby Paige looks for answers, crossing the borders between English and French, the past and the present, the living and the dead, history (L’Histoire) and stories (les histoires).

The show is bilingual, but you don't have to be!
Not only is Abby an amazing actor, but subtitles will be in use (both in-person and live-stream) to aid in your understanding of the lines spoken in French.

Production Team

Scoop Info

Check out this article in The Times Argus about the show!

I want to understand where I come from, beyond genetics, beyond genealogy, beyond history.'

- Abby Paige

"People who imagine that history flatters them are impaled on their history like a butterfly on a pin and become incapable of seeing or changing themselves, or the world.”

- James Baldwin

Buzz Info

Hear from Abby & Kim - what they think about the show - and each other! HERE

Media Info

Les Filles du QUOI?

Show Overview

written & performed by Abby Paigedirected by Kim Allen Bent

The new one-woman show by acclaimed Vermont performer, Abby Paige, is an autobiographical exploration of ancestry, identity, and storytelling.

An American with French-Canadian roots immigrates to Canada, a century after her great-grandparents immigrated in the opposite direction. She has questions:

What does “francophone” mean?

What’s the deal with the queen?

Why is Jack Kerouac the only Franco-American anyone’s ever heard of?

Is Céline Dion a witch?

With this comedic, bilingual one-woman show, writer and performer Abby Paige looks for answers, crossing the borders between English and French, the past and the present, the living and the dead, history (L’Histoire) and stories (les histoires).

The show is bilingual, but you don't have to be!Not only is Abby an amazing actor, but subtitles will be in use (both in-person and live-stream) to aid in your understanding of the lines spoken in French.

Production Team

Scoop Info

Check out this article in The Times Argus about the show!

I want to understand where I come from, beyond genetics, beyond genealogy, beyond history.'

- Abby Paige

"People who imagine that history flatters them are impaled on their history like a butterfly on a pin and become incapable of seeing or changing themselves, or the world.”

- James Baldwin

Buzz Info

Hear from Abby & Kim - what they think about the show - and each other! HERE

Media Info

written & performed by Abby Paige
directed by Kim Allen Bent

An American with French-Canadian roots immigrates to Canada, a century after her great-grandparents immigrated in the opposite direction.
She has questions:

The show is bilingual, but you don't have to be!
Not only is Abby an amazing actor, but subtitles will be in use (both in-person and live-stream) to aid in your understanding of the lines spoken in French.