Charlotte is witnessing the death of a parent, while struggling to hide it from herself and her best friend, Emily, who is staying with Charlotte's family for the summer. Emily is in a constant state of confusion with the facade of normalcy. In a summer of pretending, they find comfort in creating a play about the lives of Charlotte and Emily Bronte. The worlds they create force them to confront their secrets. They also deal with the prosaic problems of boys, parties, drinking and self-image.

Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman is a Governor General’s Literary Award– and Dora Mavor Moore Award–nominated playwright, winner of the Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition, and the K.M. Hunter Artist Award. She graduated from the playwriting program at the National Theatre School and writes for theatre, radio, film, and television. Her writing includes The End of Pretending with Emily Sugarman, Twisted with Joseph Jomo Pierre, Scratch, and Sudden Death. She directed and co-created Highway 63: The Fort Mac Show and wrote for CBC Radio’s Afganada and for the TV series KING. Currently she is developing two new musicals as well as three feature films. She lives in Toronto.

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