Elmwood Theatre is pleased to present the world debut of Miss Bruce’s War by Jean Duce Palmer. A heart-warming narrative, the story follows that of a trainee-teacher, Miss Bruce, who sweeps into a German-speaking community in wartime Alberta to supervise a one-room school in the dead of winter. Beyond her ability to ride a horse and “play by ear”, she brings few skills and no training, but she is determined to instill patriotism, forbid the use of German and do a good job. Her young and defiant charges are reluctantly won over by her songs and ‘dancing at noon’, while a handsome fiddle player and a string of courting farm boys bedazzle Miss Bruce.