None This Tide / Nor Any Tide

November 2022

My Boy Jack, by Rudyard Kipling

“Have you news of my boy Jack?”
Not this tide.
“When d’you think that he’ll come back?”
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide …

Top photo: Newfoundland National War Memorial; above: sculptor Basil Grotto with caribou memorial statue

Michael Connolly: “My images are reactions to memories of particular places and experiences”

His new solo exhibition, Rise, opens at The Leyton Gallery tomorrow. In this series, Connolly explores the changing face of the landscape within Gros Morne National Park. “My places are interactive,…

Tara Bryan: an exacting sense of play

“When you hold one of Tara Bryan’s books in your hands, immediately you sense a remarkable intelligence at work. For Tara, books were never just simple objects—they were journeys, they…

Theatre

Take Shakespeare, add toutons: NQ talks to Paul Rowe, director of a new production of Merry Wives of Windsor

Congratulations on the new play! Can you talk about how you adapted the script to a 100-minute running time? It took it was an elaborate cut.  And it was an…