Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald, opening August 2 and directed by Alisa Palmer.
​​​​​​​In this feminist reimagining of Othello and Romeo and Juliet, a modern academic travels through time to rescue Shakespeare’s heroines from their fates—resulting in sword fights, hilarity, and a sharp commentary on gender and destiny.

The riotous energy of The Flying Doctor returns after a hit run in 2023. Adapted by Evan Mercer and directed by Perry Schneiderman, this slapstick-filled take on Molière’s farce blends classical theatre with the wild antics of commedia dell’arte – including a fight with a giant bologna.

Perchance presents Every Brilliant Thing, directed by Allison Kelly and starring Harbour Grace native John Sheehan. A one-man show, it follow’s one person’s journey through life, love, and loss, using honesty, humour and a growing list of joys to navigate the impact of his mother’s mental illness. This play is currently playing on London’s West End!

What do you get when a storyteller, a musician, and a graphic artist squeeze their brains into a tiny rectangular space? You get The Kamishib’ys, of course!

Kamishibai (Japanese for paper play) is a form of street theater and storytelling, where narrators set up a miniature wooden stage, revealing a series of colourful illustrations as the tales unfold. The Newfoundland version is The Kamishib’ys: performed by storyteller Dale Jarvis and musician and percussionist Jaehong Jin, with art byprintmaker Graham Blair. Sit down in front of their portable storytelling stage as they share a three-course feast of family-friendly fables: The Mermaid Sisters of Beachy Cove, Open Open Green House, andThe Legend of Bennett’s Cove

The Kamishib’ys: a blend of mid-century-inspired art, traditional Newfoundland storytelling, and contemporary Korean folk music! Presented with support from ArtsNL.

What do you get when a storyteller, a musician, and a graphic artist squeeze their brains into a tiny rectangular space? You get The Kamishib’ys, of course!

Kamishibai (Japanese for paper play) is a form of street theater and storytelling, where narrators set up a miniature wooden stage, revealing a series of colourful illustrations as the tales unfold. The Newfoundland version is The Kamishib’ys: performed by storyteller Dale Jarvis and musician and percussionist Jaehong Jin, with art byprintmaker Graham Blair. Sit down in front of their portable storytelling stage as they share a three-course feast of family-friendly fables: The Mermaid Sisters of Beachy Cove, Open Open Green House, andThe Legend of Bennett’s Cove

The Kamishib’ys: a blend of mid-century-inspired art, traditional Newfoundland storytelling, and contemporary Korean folk music! Presented with support from ArtsNL.

Our fourth mainstage this year is Tempting Providence by Robert Chafe, Directed by Jillian Keiley (co-production with Artistic Fraud of NL). In 1921 Myra Grimsley signed a two-year contract and boarded a steamship from London, England to St. John’s, Newfoundland. Her charge: to serve as the sole health-care provider for three hundred miles of the sparsely settled coast of Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula. By the time her contract ran out two years later, Myra was married to local Angus Bennett, and had given birth to their first child, Grace. Based on the true story of Nurse Myra Bennett, Tempting Providence is a play about duty and sadness, love and change. Four strong characters drive this no-frills drama about a young British nurse who only signed on for two years, and the local man for whom she stayed for seventy. Starring Colin Furlong, Una Hill-McMullin, Marquita Walsh, and Stephen Oates.

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald, opening August 2 and directed by Alisa Palmer.
​​​​​​​In this feminist reimagining of Othello and Romeo and Juliet, a modern academic travels through time to rescue Shakespeare’s heroines from their fates—resulting in sword fights, hilarity, and a sharp commentary on gender and destiny.

The riotous energy of The Flying Doctor returns after a hit run in 2023. Adapted by Evan Mercer and directed by Perry Schneiderman, this slapstick-filled take on Molière’s farce blends classical theatre with the wild antics of commedia dell’arte – including a fight with a giant bologna.