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With La Farce de Maistre Piarre Pathelonne et autres farces, the Araignées won first prize at the 1989 Nova Scotia Amateur Theatre Festival. They also won a prize in scenography, best suporting actor and a special prize for adaptation.
The theatre group les Araignées du boui-boui was launched in 1971 by Jean-Douglas Comeau at Universtié Sainte-Anne.At the National Festival in Gander, Newfoundland, the Araignées won best play, best director, best scenography and best supporting actresses for their performance of Panique à Longueil by René-Daniel Dubois and were chosen to represent Canada at the World Amateur Theatre Festival in Monaco in 1993.
The Araignées launched their Clare Acadian Dinner Theatre in 1993 with Tous les ch'monnes m'nont au rhum, followed in 1994 by La dernière seine.
This musical drama has already been played over a hundred times and has been seen by 20 000 theatre goers. The four thousand people who have filled out the appreciation forms at the end of the shows are nearly unanimous in praising the music, the scenography and the soul of the actors. The play has toured on the prestigious stages of Montreal, Québec, Trois-Rivières, Halifax, as well as in New Brunswick and in Maine (USA), Chéticamp and Wolfville (N.S.) during the 150th anniversary of the writing of Longfellow's poem.
With Joko fête son anniversaire, by Topor, the Araignées have won best Nova Scotia play at the Liverpool International Theatre Festival, and for this reason represented Canada at the Fiesta Internacional de Teatro San Martin in Caracas, Venezuela in 1998.