2019-05-07 20:002019-05-18 22:0060Canada/Eastern🎟 NAC: Between Breaths
https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/18800
An Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland (St. John's) Production
In the final moments of his extraordinary life, east coast whale researcher Jon Lien tried desperately to tell his wife something, which she struggled to understand.
Between Breaths floats through the inspiring career of the man who freed more than 500 whales from fishing nets. From his unexpected first encounter with a whale, Lien worked to earn the trust of the injured giants, as well as the fishermen whose nets...
“Between Breaths is a compelling and compassionate show. ”
The Telegram
≈ 70 minutes
· No intermission
NAC English Theatre Collaboration
An Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland (St. John's) Production
In the final moments of his extraordinary life, east coast whale researcher Jon Lien tried desperately to tell his wife something, which she struggled to understand.
Between Breaths floats through the inspiring career of the man who freed more than 500 whales from fishing nets. From his unexpected first encounter with a whale, Lien worked to earn the trust of the injured giants, as well as the fishermen whose nets accidentally entrapped them.
With an evocative, live score by The Once, this moving work by renowned playwright Robert Chafe (The Colony of Unrequited Dreams) examines what it means to find your passion and how to let it go.
Robert Chafe is a writer, educator, actor and arts administrator based in St. John’s, Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland). He has worked in theatre, dance, opera, radio, fiction and film. His stage plays have been seen in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and in the United States, and include Oil and Water, Tempting Providence, Afterimage, Under Wraps, Between Breaths, Everybody Just Calm the Fuck Down, and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (adapted from the novel by Wayne Johnston.) He has been shortlisted twice for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama and he won the award for Afterimage in 2010. He has been guest instructor at Memorial University, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, and The National Theatre School of Canada. In 2018 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Memorial University. He is the playwright and Artistic Director of Artistic Fraud.
Robert Chafe est un écrivain, enseignant, acteur et administrateur des arts basé à St. John’s, Ktaqmkuk (Terre-Neuve). Il a travaillé dans les domaines du théâtre, de la danse, de l’opéra, de la radio, de la fiction et du cinéma. Ses pièces de théâtre ont été présentées au Canada, au Royaume-Uni, en Australie et aux États-Unis. Elles comprennent Oil and Water, Tempting Providence, Afterimage, Under Wraps, Between Breaths, Everybody Just Calm the Fuck Down et The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (adaptation du roman de Wayne Johnston). Il a été finaliste deux fois au Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général, dans la catégorie Théâtre, et a remporté ce prix pour Afterimage en 2010. Il a été professeur invité à l’Université Memorial, au Sir Wilfred Grenfell College et à l’École nationale de théâtre du Canada. En 2018, il a reçu un doctorat honorifique de l’Université Memorial. Dramaturge, il est directeur artistique d’Artistic Fraud.
Jillian Keiley has directed and taught across Canada and internationally. She was the founding Artistic Director of Artistic Fraud. Highlights from her 27 years with the company include In Your Dreams Freud, Under Wraps, AfterImage, The Cheat, The Chekhov Variations, and Salvage: Story of a House, Oil and Water, Between Breaths, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, and I Forgive You, most of which were featured on tours across Canada including the NAC. Jillian assumed her role as NAC English Theatre Artistic Director in 2012 and finished her tenure in 2022. Other NAC productions include A Christmas Carol, Twelfth Night, Metamorphoses: Based on the Myths of Ovid and Copenhagen. She also directed Bakkhai, The Diary of Anne Frank, and As You Like It for the Stratford Festival, as well as The Neverending Story and Alice Through the Looking-Glass, both produced as collaborations between the Stratford Festival and the NAC. Tempting Providence, her collaboration with Robert Chafe for Theatre Newfoundland Labrador, toured internationally for 12 years. Her production of Tell Tale Harbour at the Confederation Centre for the Arts was a blockbuster hit at the Confederation Centre this past summer and she looks forward to opening summer productions of Richard the Second at the Stratford Festival and Come From Away in Gander, Newfoundland. Jillian holds Honorary Doctorates of Letters from both Memorial University and York University, and she was the winner of the Siminovitch Prize for Directing in 2004 and the Canada Council’s John Hirsch Prize in 1997.
Metteure en scène primée de St. John’s, à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, Jillian Keiley est la fondatrice de la compagnie de théâtre Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland. Elle a signé des mises en scène et enseigné partout au Canada, et elle a aussi travaillé à l’étranger. Titulaire d’un baccalauréat en Beaux-arts avec concentration en Théâtre de l’Université York, Mme Keiley a remporté le prestigieux prix Siminovitch (mise en scène) en 2004, ainsi que le prix John-Hirsch du Conseil des arts du Canada, et a reçu des doctorats honorifiques en Lettres de l’Université Memorial et de l’Université York. Jillian est entrée en poste comme directrice aretistique du Théâtre anglais du CNA en août 2012, et les productions qu’elle a mises en scène au CNA comprennent The Neverending Story, Between Breaths, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, A Christmas Carol, Twelfth Night, Metamorphoses: Based on the Myths of Ovid, Tartuffe, Oil and Water et Alice Through the Looking-Glass. Récemment, elle a mis en scène Bakkhai, The Diary of Anne Frank et As You Like It pour le Festival de Stratford, et ses productions de Tartuffe (CNA) et The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (Artistic Fraud) ont tourné à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador. Tempting Providence, fruit de sa collaboration avec Robert Chafe pour Theatre Newfoundland Labrador, a tourné sur la scène mondiale pendant douze ans et a été la production inaugurale lors du lancement du Nurse Myra Bennett Theatre à Cow Head, Terre-Neuve, l’été dernier.
Berni Stapleton is a playwright, author, skit-artist, and actor. She was born in North West River, Labrador and grew up on the south coast of Newfoundland. She has spent her career making beautiful theatre in unexpected places. She was a Siminovitch Playwright Prize finalist in 2023. She is the recipient of the prestigious Rhonda Payne Award for Theatre. She is the founder and Artistic Director of Girl Power Inc. an indie feminist theatre company devoted to the queer-hands and creators of the outer reaches. She has had almost forty plays professionally produced. Her plays include Offensive to Some, first developed as part of the NAC’s English Theatre Program the Playwright’s Circle in 1996. It is produced regularly to this day. The Antidote for Life: Memory, Madness and Beagles, is an autobiographical exploration of madness in the arts. New works in progress include the feminist queer imagining Ophelia Swims and the upcoming podcast The Haunted Doorbell. Berni was writer-in-residence at Memorial University in 2019 and has taught an Introduction to Playwrighting course there. Her books include Love, Life, with Breakwater Books, the newest yet unpublished Brazil Square about the once iconic boarding house district of St. John’s, and the writing guide How to Write a Play and Have Fun Without Hardly Even Trying or How to Finish Your Best Worst First Draft or Prepare to Throw the Pasta. She lives in St. John’s with rescue beagles Georgie Girl and Tiggy Duff.
Dramaturge, écrivaine, auteure de sketches et actrice, Berni Stapleton est née à North West River, au Labrador, et a grandi sur la côte sud de Terre-Neuve. Elle a consacré sa carrière à créer de belles œuvres théâtrales dans des endroits inattendus. Finaliste au Prix Siminovitch en tant que dramaturge en 2023, elle est également lauréate du prix de théâtre Rhonda Payne. Elle est la fondatrice et la directrice artistique de Girl Power Inc., une compagnie de théâtre indépendante féministe pour les artistes queer et de la marge. Une quarantaine de ses pièces ont été produites professionnellement, dont Offensive to Some, créée en 1996 dans le cadre du programme Playwright’s Circle du Théâtre anglais du CNA et encore montée régulièrement aujourd’hui, et The Antidote for Life: Love, Aging, A Beagle Named Georgie, une exploration autobiographique de la folie dans le milieu des arts. Parmi ses œuvres en gestation, mentionnons la relecture queer et féministe Ophelia Swims et le balado The Haunted Doorbell. Berni Stapleton a été auteure en résidence à l’Université Memorial en 2019 et a enseigné l’introduction à la dramaturgie dans cet établissement. Elle est notamment l’auteure des livres Love, Life chez Breakwater Books, Brazil Square (à paraître), sur le fameux quartier de St. John’s où pullulaient les pensions de famille, ainsi que le guide d’écriture How to Write a Play and Have Fun Without Hardly Even Trying or How to Finish Your Best Worst First Draft or Prepare to Throw the Pasta. Elle vit à St. John’s avec ses deux beagles, Georgie Girl et Tiggy Duff.
Duane Andrews is a noted composer/arranger as well as a recording/touring musician whose music is a product of an adventurous spirit and a love of music that is beyond category.
His recordings have won numerous awards and have led him around the world touring from his home in St. John's, Newfoundland to Tasmania, Australia with stops in between on stages such as the Newport Folk and Montreal Jazz festivals.
He sharpened his composing skills at the Conservatoire International de Paris and the CNR in Marseilles, France studying with Georges Boeuf. Since then, his compositions have found home in a diverse range of contexts including a variety of award-winning films which have screened at such events as the Toronto and Cannes Film Festivals.
Duane Andrews est un compositeur et arrangeur de renom ainsi qu’un musicien de studio et de tournée. Ses œuvres, produit d’un esprit aventurier et d’un amour de la musique inclassable, ont été couronnées à maintes reprises et l’ont mené en tournée autour du monde, de sa ville natale de St. John’s (Terre-Neuve) à la Tasmanie (Australie), en passant par le Festival folk de Newport et le Festival de jazz de Montréal.
Duane Andrews a perfectionné son art au Conservatoire international de musique de Paris et au Conservatoire national de région de Marseille, étudiant auprès de Georges Bœuf. Depuis, ses compositions ont été utilisées dans divers contextes, notamment dans plusieurs films primés qui ont été présentés lors d’événements aussi prestigieux que les festivals de Toronto et de Cannes.
Kellie Walsh is the founder and Artistic Director of the award-winning Lady Cove Women's Choir and the Artistic Director of the internationally celebrated Shallaway Youth Choir. She has most recently co-founded the Inuit Youth Choir Ullûgiagatsuk from Nunatsiavut, Labrador, and is the immediate Past President of Canada’s national choral organization, Choral Canada. From deep and proud roots in Newfoundland and Labrador, she’s gained renown internationally for embracing the medium of choral singing as an opportunity to explore empathy building, sociocultural identity, and civic engagement. Walsh has worked across Canada, the United States, South America, Europe and Asia advocating choral music as a medium to unite people and cultures, transcend geography and societal, political and economic circumstances. Walsh believes the arts can play a transformative role in shaping communities' futures.
Kellie Walsh est la fondatrice et la directrice artistique du Lady Cove Women’s Choir, lauréat de nombreux prix, et la directrice artistique du Shallaway Youth Choir, de renommée internationale. Elle a récemment cofondé le chœur de jeunes Inuits Ullûgiagatsuk du Nunatsiavut, au Labrador, et est la présidente sortante de l’organisme choral national, Choral Canada. Fière de ses racines profondes à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, elle a acquis une renommée internationale en utilisant le chant choral comme moyen d’explorer le développement de l’empathie, de l’identité socioculturelle et de l’engagement citoyen. Mme Walsh a travaillé dans tout le Canada, aux États-Unis, en Amérique du Sud, en Europe et en Asie, afin de promouvoir le chant choral comme moyen d’unir les gens et les cultures, de transcender la géographie et les contextes sociaux, politiques et économiques. Mme Walsh est convaincue que les arts peuvent jouer un rôle transformateur en façonnant l’avenir des communautés.
Sarah/SGS is VP of Programming at Arts Commons in Calgary and co-stewards historic Birchdale. Formerly the Artistic Producer for the National Creation Fund (NAC). As part of her PhD, in Cultural Studies at Queen’s, she created Massey & Me: Conversations at the End of Theatre. This five-part series formally references the CBC Massey Lectures, and it reflects critically on the genealogical, political, and administrative structures that house professional theatre in Canada.
She is co-founder of SpiderWebShow and FOLDA, the Baby Grand Theatre, was the 1st female Artistic Director at Buddies in Bad Times, and was the inaugural Artistic Associate for The Magnetic North Theatre Festival.
SGS was named a 2022 Arne Bengt Johansson Fellow at The Banff Forum and returned in 2023. She was recently appointed to the board of Alberta Theatre and the Buddies Leadership Advisory Pilot and the National Advisory for the Creation Fund.
Sarah, alias SGS, est vice-présidente de la programmation d’Arts Commons à Calgary et codirectrice du légendaire Birchdale. Elle a également été productrice artistique du Fonds national de création du CNA. Dans le cadre de son doctorat en études culturelles à l’Université Queen’s, elle a créé Massey & Me: Conversations at the End of Theatre, une série de cinq événements de réflexion faisant référence aux conférences CBC Massey. Dans le cadre de cette réflexion critique, SGS explore les structures généalogiques, politiques et administratives qui régissent le théâtre professionnel au Canada.
SGS a cofondé le SpiderWebShow, le Festival of Live Digital Art (FOLDA) et le Baby Grand Theatre, en plus d’avoir été la première directrice artistique du Buddies in Bad Times et la première collaboratrice artistique du Festival de théâtre Magnetic North.
En 2022, elle a été nommée boursière Arne Bengt Johansson du Banff Forum, avant d’y retourner l’année suivante. Depuis peu, elle siège au conseil d’administration de l’Alberta Theatre et au Comité consultatif national du Fonds national de création du CNA, et fait partie du projet pilote de consultation en leadership du Buddies in Bad Times Theatre.
Brian is a designer for theatre from Mt. Pearl, Newfoundland and Labrador and is a graduate from The National Theatre School of Canada and Sheridan College. Selected credits include: Come From Away in concert [Mirvish, Marquis Ent], Billy Elliott, The Rocky Horror Show, The Music Man, Little Shop of Horrors [Stratford Festival], Elf, Grow, Mary Poppins [The Grand Theatre], Once [Segal Centre], Everybody Just C@lm The F#ck Down, Between Breaths, TheColony of Unrequited Dreams [Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland], Supper Club, Birthday Balloon [RCA Theatre]. Brian is a board member of the IATSE Local 659, The Associated Designers of Canada.
Originaire de Mount Pearl à Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador, Brian Kenny est un concepteur de théâtre diplômé de l’École nationale de théâtre du Canada et du Collège Sheridan. Parmi ses collaborations, mentionnons : Come From Away in Concert (Mirvish et Marquis Ent.); Billy Elliott, The Rocky Horror Show, The Music Man, Little Shop of Horrors (Festival de Stratford); Elf, Grow, Mary Poppins (The Grand Theatre); Once (Centre Segal); Everybody Just C@lm The F#ck Down, Between Breaths, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (Artistic Fraud, Terre-Neuve); Supper Club, Birthday Balloon (RCA Theatre). Brian est membre du conseil d’administration de la section locale 659 de l’AIEST, l’Association des designers canadiens.
Sharon King-Campbell (she/her) is a theatre and literary artist based in Ktaqmkuk/Newfoundland. She has been working with Artistic Fraud since 2017 as director on transVersing, assistant director on Between Breaths, and director of five short monologues in The Imaginary Real. She has also directed for Bear & Co., Best Kind Productions, Grand Bank Regional Theatre, Stephenville Theatre Festival, New Curtain Theatre and Girl Power Inc, among others. Sharon is the author of four plays and one book of poetry, and is currently pursuing a PhD at Memorial University of Newfoundland. You can find out more at sharonkingcampbell.com.
Sharon King-Campbell est une artiste de théâtre et une écrivaine basée à Ktaqmkuk/Terre-Neuve. Avec Artistic Fraud depuis 2017, elle a signé la mise en scène de transVersing, et de cinq courts monologues dans The Imaginary Real, en plus d’aider à la mise en scène de Between Breaths. Elle a également travaillé comme metteuse en scène pour Bear & Co, Best Kind Productions, Grand Bank Regional Theatre, Stephenville Theatre Festival, New Curtain Theatre et Girl Power Inc., entre autres. Sharon est l’autrice de quatre pièces de théâtre et d’un recueil de poésie. Elle prépare actuellement un doctorat à l’Université Memorial de Terre-Neuve. Pour en savoir plus, vous pouvez visiter le site sharonkingcampbell.com.
Patrick Foran is a St. John's-based theatre artist and has served as Producer on several Artistic Fraud productions, including Under Wraps, Oil & Water, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Between Breaths, transVersing,The Other Side of This, and The Imaginary Real. As a community builder, Patrick helped establish the St. John's Short Play Festival and the Association of Professional Theatre of NL. As an actor, Patrick has worked with theatres across Newfoundland and Ontario, and is co-Artistic Director of Double Sure Theatre in St. John's. He is a graduate of Memorial University's Faculty of Business Administration and George Brown Theatre School.
Patrick Foran est un homme de théâtre de John’s (T.-N.) qui a produit plusieurs spectacles d’Artistic Fraud, dont Under Wraps, Oil & Water, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Between Breaths, transVersing,The Other Side of This et The Imaginary Real. Patrick a contribué à la vie culturelle communautaire en participant à la création du St. John’s Short Play Festival et de l’Association de théâtre professionnel de Terre-Neuve. Comme acteur, Patrick a travaillé avec des compagnies de théâtre de Terre-Neuve et de l’Ontario, et il est codirecteur artistique du Double Sure Theatre de St. John’s. Il est diplômé de la Faculté d’administration des affaires de l’Université Memorial et de la George Brown Theatre School.
