Half-Cracked (also known as Half-Cracked: The Legend of Sissy Mary) by Nova Scotian playwright Mary-Colin Chisholm is a hilarious, magical-realist comedy about two rural sisters and their chickens.The story follows fiercely practical Yewina and her sister Sissyβa dreamer with a flair for blending gossip with wild, enchanting fantasy. Their isolated, rural Nova Scotia routine is completely upended when Scott, a nervous folklorist, arrives at their farmhouse hoping to collect never-before-heard folktales for his masterβs thesis.