Winter issue on the stands!

December 2023

The theme is Travel, and we’ll take you from Bulgaria to Belleoram, from the cherry blossoms in Tokyo to a bull ride in Mexico, to childhood and back.

With writing from Edward Riche, Cynthia Boyd, Adam Walsh, and Katie Vautour, and artwork from Jessie Donaldson, Peter Jackson, and Cory Collins – and a gorgeous cover from David Baltzer. Subscriptions are available here, and we have retail outlets across the country. And you can also find us at the St John’s Farmer’s Market Stocking Stuffer Fair this Sunday!

(Cover image: David Baltzer; illustration, Katie Vautour)

The Big Splash

“Shakespeare might well have called our island ‘one built by Nature for herself / Against infection and the hand of war’,” by Paul Rowe

Newfoundland and Labrador is a place of the sea. To paraphrase Keats: Its eternal whisperings have been heard for eons against our desolate shores. Even when the cod stocks were…

Theatre

Perchance to dream – and build on it: a conversation with artistic director, Danielle Irvine

What’s on the go with Perchance Theatre? Lots. In the big picture we’re moving our theatre, our whole company is moving from Cupids to Conception Harbour. And that is the…

Non-Fiction Essay

Costume Banks and Conjured Worlds

BY Eva Crocker

As we weave through the racks she tells me the history of specific pieces, like a donated Sherlock Holmes’ style cape and deerstalker hat that was worn during the Boer War. Each costume is a talisman for transformation and picking the right one can help summon a character, conjure a world.