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.

Tara Bryan: The air in Newfoundland is tangible

Bryan’s background was multi-faceted: along with her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she also earned a BA in Music Theory and Composition from the University of New Mexico; she…

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Seeing Through Glass, Plastic and Ice

BY Matthew Hollett

When I signed up for my first photography class in art school, my dad rummaged around in the basement and placed a heavy leather case in my hands. I unbuckled it to find his old 35mm camera, a Zenit EM. It had an enormous dent above the lens, as if it had deflected a bullet, and its selenium light meter, mysteriously, did not require batteries.