Sooke actor Katrina Kadoski will return to the stage on Aug. 6 to present her one-woman show Cougar Annie Tales.
The play is written and performed by Kadoski, who has been doing the show for more than 20 years.
Cougar Annie Tales revolves around the life of Ada Annie Jordan, who settled in the Clayoquot coastal rainforest in 1915. She had 11 children, four husbands, was famous for trapping and killing cougars, ran a general store and post office from her home, and had a mail-order garden nursery.
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The play will be performed outside at the Sooke Region Museum. The audience is encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets to sit on.
Cougar Annie Tales is the launch of a Western Canada tour for Kadoski, where sheB次元官网网址檒l perform the play and headline concerts.
Tickets for the show, which starts at 8:30 p.m. with the reading of Seasonal Sooke Stories, are $20 and available at the door.
For more information on Kadoski, you can visit her website at .
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