PORTLAND – The Off-Broadway production of local playwright Carolyn Gage’s “Parmachene Belle” is coming to Portland.

It’s one of the plays produced by Cauldron and Labrys, Portland’s all-women theater company, that will be presented at 8 p.m. Sept. 17-18 and Sept. 24-25 at the Company of Girls Performance Space, 10 Mayo St.

The plays include “Calamity Jane Sends a Message to Her Daughter,” Gage’s one-act play that won this winter’s Boston Play Slam!

Connecticut actress Leslie Bernardini reprises her acclaimed performances of Cornelia “Fly Rod” Crosby (1854-1946), Maine’s first hunting guide, and of Calamity Jane, in an evening of four one-acts by Gage called “Wild Women Don’t Get the Blues.”

The evening also includes Portland playwright and director Cathy Plourde as a fiercely funny cook in “Cookin’ with Typhoid Mary.”

The final offering, “Artemisia and Hildegard” features local actresses Liz Rensenbrink and Heidi Kleiber in an confrontation between two powerful feminist artists.

“This is an evening of women who defied all the social conventions to live their lives the way they wanted,” said Gage, who tours internationally in a play about a lesbian Joan of Arc.

“These are tough, tough women and in tough times, I think their examples can help us all stand up for ourselves more.”

Tickets for this production are $15 and $12 for students and seniors.

There will be a talk back with the playwright on Sept. 18. For information and reservations, people can call 774-4231.