Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The spring of 1992. Maenad, the city’s first and only women’s theatre collective, presents as the final show of its third season at the Pumphouse Theatre, Mother Tongue, announced as collaborative theatre and performance art created and performed by Cheryl L’Hirondelle and Alexandria Patience. Concurrent with the three-week theatre run, Mother Tongue is also “an exhibition of artifacts from the process of its creation. Assemblage, video and found objects, among others, will be on exhibit at TRUCK: an artist-run centre” (from the programme). Two weeks after the theatre run has closed, Mother Tongue reemerges as performance art (cutting loose its label of “collaborative theatre”) at TRUCK. This performance version plays only once, on a Saturday afternoon.