BAY ROBERTS, NL • The colours of old St. John's are the pastel pinks, blues, yellows and greens of the Jellybean Houses. The landscape outside the city offered a different palette of steel grey water, dark green conifers and browns ranging from reddish to wheat on the
Myles A. Taylor plays Joey in Kill Me Now, Brad Fraser’s black comedy currently at the National Arts Centre. The character is a teenager with a severe disability, and the play focuses on the relationship between Joey and his father Jake, a widower and his
Robert Chafe is a name familiar to patrons of the National Arts Centre. His script, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams was staged at the NAC last season under the direction of his long-time friend and colleague, Jillian Keiley, the artistic director of the NAC's 's English
ST. JOHN'S, NL • The forecast calls for freezing rain. The northeastern part of this island is slammed by thick pack ice and there's an iceberg south of here that can be seen from space and that helicopters are landing upon. But it was warm and toasty (it
Double Exposure: Plays of the Jewish and Palestinian Diasporas Edited by Stephen Orlov and Samah Sabawi (Playwrights Canada Press) In town: Stephen Orlov and Samah Sabawi are at the Ottawa International Writers Festival Sunday, April 30. They will speak at 2 p.m. at Christ Church Cathedral, 414 Sparks
ARTSFILE has been taken on board the NACO tour of Atlantic Canada from April 26 to May 7. First stop along the way: St. John's, Newfoundland. • Duane Andrews picked up a guitar when he was 10. His mother was learning to play at the same time so
The National Arts Centre Foundation has announced two donations totalling $3.5 million that will go towards the creation of new performing arts works, education programs in theatre and the new Indigenous Theatre Department. The donations come from John and Jennifer Ruddy, of Ottawa, and the estate
One Day We'll All Be Dead And None Of This Will Matter Scaachi Koul (Doubleday Canada) In Town: The author will be at the spring edition of the Ottawa International Writers Festival on April 27 at 8:30 p.m. in Christ Church Cathedral. For more information including tickets,
If you’re made uncomfortable by some scenes in Kill Me Now, opening this week at the National Arts Centre, playwright Brad Fraser will be content. “Any good play has elements that make you uncomfortable. Isn’t that the whole point of going to the theatre?’’ In fact,
ARTSFILE has been taken on board the NACO tour of Atlantic Canada from April 26 to May 7. Follow our coverage from each stop along the way: St. John's, Newfoundland, Moncton and Saint John, New Brunswick, Charlottetown, P.E.I., Eskasoni, Cape Breton, and Halifax, Nova Scotia. • Four
