Perchance still dreaming (and sword fighting and tempting and flying)

August 2025

Their summer 2025 season runs through the end of August, with productions of Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), by Ann-Marie MacDonald; Tempting Providence, by Robert Chafe; and The Flying Doctor (adapted by Evan Mercer from the Molière original) scheduled for matinee and 6pm stagings – plus presentations of Every Brilliant Thing and The Open Sky Series.
Perchance consistently hits theatrical high notes, even as it weathers site changes, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the odd reluctance of banks to lend mortgages to theatre companies. Here’s an interview with Irvine, and you can get your Perchance tickets here.

Images from Goodnight Desdemona: Una Hill-McMullin and Aiden Flynn sword fighting while Diane Flacks (Constance) works on her thesis; Diane Flacks (Constance) and Zoe Cleland (Juliet); Una Hill-McMullin (Desdemona) smothers Diane Flacks (Constance); courtesy Perchance Theatre.

Podcast

New Issue Podcast: All Things “Corner Store”

BY NQ

Our editor, Joan Sullivan, joined Adam Walsh, host of the Signal on CBC, to chat about all things “corner store”. They were joined by guests Paul Rowe, Reed Weir, David Michael, and Eva Crocker for a colourful look at the role that corner stores play in the life of this province.

NL Q and A: Elisabeth de Mariaffi

BY Joan Sullivan

I usually come to new stories with either a first line or a first image in mind. With Hysteria, it was an image – almost a moment, really. A young mother, lounging on a wooden raft in a quiet pond with her child, suddenly is witness to a strange and unexplainable event. It’s a hot and lazy day, the woman is half-dozing. She looks up to see a second child, a strange little girl, has appeared out of nowhere.

Visual Art

New solo show from Iakov Afanassiev

Opening May 22 at The Leyton Gallery of Fine Art: Where the Light Settles, an exhibition of Afanassiev’s luminous realism in portraiture, florals, and landscapes. Stop by and take in…