Robert Chafe

Festival Players is having the writers over for tea and a chat - and you’re invited! First up is Robert Chafe, whose play Tempting Providence is playing as part of the 2010 season. The reading takes place Sunday, March 28, at 2pm at Books & Company in Picton. Admission is free and refreshments are provided.

Robert Chafe’s work has been seen across Canada, the U.K., and Australia. He is the author of fifteen stage scripts and co-author of another ten. He frequently collaborates with Siminovitch Prize winning director Jillian Keiley. Two of his plays (Tempting Providence and Butler’s Marsh) were published in 2004 and shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Drama. Tempting Providence, directed by Keiley and produced by Theatre Newfoundland Labrador, is entering its eighth year of national and international touring, and has been nominated for two Betty Mitchell Awards (Calgary), a Dora Mavor Moore Award (Toronto) and was recently awarded the Capital Critics Circle Award for Best Production after its run in Ottawa. Chafe has been writer in residence at Artistic Fraud, Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre and Forest Forge Theatre, Hampshire, U.K., and a guest instructor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, and the National Theatre School of Canada.

Tempting Providence was commissioned by Theatre Newfoundland Labrador in 2000 and since its premiere production has played over 370 times in over 90 communities across Canada, England, Scotland, Ireland and Australia, and this year will add the U.S. to its touring schedule. Festival Players is delighted to bring this production to our community.

Admission to the Playwrights Reading Series is free. Light refreshments available. For more information call 613.399.5677.

Playwrights Reading Series Sunday, March 28, 2pm

With Tempting Providence playwright Robert Chafe

Books & Company, 289 Main Street, Picton