A Time for Dolls

by Shantell Powell

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A Time for Dolls is a powerful, darkly comic one-act play rooted in Inuit storytelling, myth, and coming-of-age ritual. Set within the traditional home of an Inuit family, the play unfolds as a mother tells her teenage daughter a series of ancestral stories—stories of survival, hunger, sexuality, transformation, and resilience—on the eve of the girl’s transition from childhood to womanhood