Fringe Review: Bountiful

Bountiful
• 4 stars out of 5
• Stage 35, L’unithéatre at La Cité Francophone
Many know the story of Bountiful, the fundamentalist Latter Day Saints settlement in southern B.C., led by a man recently sentenced to six months in jail for practising polygamy.
But what goes on in the lives of the women and girls who live in such a community?
Playwright Rebecca Merkley, who grew up in Creston, B.C., explores that question in Bountiful, looking at the lives of four ‘