By Richie Wilcox 

Directed by Richie Wilcox 

Produced in collaboration with HEIST and Eastern Front Theatre

August 13th-August 24th in Parrsboro

September 11th-21st in Dartmouth

A Basketball Tournament, a pageant queen and a decades-long mystery

Roz is on a mission to find their birth mother and what better place to start than their mother’s hometown of New Waterford, Cape Breton. Roz soon discovers that in order to find her they must learn all about the town’s legendary annual basketball tournament, The Coal Bowl Classic.

Featuring a community of characters sharing their stories of first kisses, dramatic reliving of basketball games and bittersweet memories of lost loves, Coal Bowl Queen celebrates the spirit of a tournament that has captivated a community, players, coaches, fans, and families for over forty years. 

 “Coal Bowl Queen is a small town story where the stakes are high, the dreams are big and people love like they’ve never loved before“-Richie Wilcox