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Rants, Riffs and Roars

The World According to Berni Stapleton

by (author) Berni Stapleton

Publisher
Creative Book Publishing
Initial publish date
Apr 2009
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781897174449
    Publish Date
    Apr 2009
    List Price
    $4.00

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Where to buy it

Out of print

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Description

One of Newfoundland's greatest exports is humour, and few performers serve it up better than comedian Berni Stapleton. Her collection of short stories and sketches will leave readers weeping tears of laughter on the floor. Stapleton's savage "foxhole" writing takes aim at semi-famous alcoholic neighbours, the vanity insanity of the "Me, too!" generation, and the trials and tribulations of raising youngsters. (He was born, kicking and screaming, already wearing a pair of skates and with a pack of smokes tucked into his diaper.) From her vantage point of the Friendly Neighbourhood Welfare Goddess, Stapleton illuminates the lighter side of the everyday life. She'll put a smile on your bookshelf, and a laughing pain in your gut.

About the author

Berni Stapleton is a Newfoundland- Labrador writer and performer of unique distinction. She is a past recipient of the WANL award for best work in non-fiction for her contribution to the book They Let Down Baskets. (Published by Creative Book Publishing and co-created with the esteemed Chris Brookes and Jamie Lewis.) Her short stories and essays have appeared in Riddle Fence and The Newfoundland Quarterly. She is a recent recipient of the Ambassador of Tourism award from Hospitality NL. Berni was the Artistic Director of the Grand Bank Regional Theatre Festival for 11 years on the south coast of Newfoundland and is credited with having built during her years there a flourishing theatre and tourist attraction. She has been a playwright-in- residence with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights' Workshop Montreal, Alberta Theatre Projects, CanStage, PARC and other national companies. Her plays are regularly produced across the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and she is currently working on several new works. "Brazil Square" is her homage to the iconic boarding house district of St. John's, NL and will be produced next year for Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre Company. For Rising Tide Theatre she is writing "The Margaret Duley Story" about the woman some might consider to be the Harper Lee of Newfoundland. "Our Fanny" is inspired by France Cluett, the World War 1 Nurse from Newfoundland who served overseas and is being produced in 2016 by Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador. She is celebrating 25 years as a playwright with the creation of a new one woman show called "The Remarkable Life of Clementine Parsons."

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