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MARCH 9, 2010
The premiere production of John Barlow's new one-act play,"Twitch," directed by Step Taylor, runs Thursday, March 11 and Friday, March 12 in the Black Box Theatre. Read my director's note here.
"Zinc," written by Ryan Griffith and directed by Alex Strong, has performances on Saturday, March 13 and Sunday, March 14.
Both shows are part of Theatre St. Thomas' "Centenary Series"--plays celebrating 100 years of St. Thomas University! Both shows start at 8pm nightly. Tickets: $4 Students, $8 Adults.
March 6, 2010
Made a smiley appearance in Fredericton's Daily Gleaner re: this week's performances of "Twitch" and "Zinc".
February 8, 2010
Purchase a copy of "A darkly complex and challenging homecoming drama," my Newfoundland-inspired play, Chapel Arm, now available at AMAZON.
There's also a couple rough new (well, old but newly posted) pieces in the poems section.
February 7, 2010
Rehearsals for John Barlow's one-act play, "TWITCH," are underway. Show runs March 11-12 in the Black Box Theatre, Fredericton, NB.
November 30, 2009
My poem, "Lunch at Dusty's," has been published by the kind monkeys at Feathertale. Big thanks to them. You can check out the previously unpublished piece here.
November 29, 2009
It's official: there will be a Fredericton launch for Jordan Stewart's new book, Greetings! From Gumdrop Mountain, published by Loose Teeth Press, and Step Taylor's Chapel Arm, published by Scirocco Drama.
It's at 8pm on Friday, December 4th at UNB's Grad House - 676 Windsor Street! Come out for new lit and Picaroon's Winter Warmer! Other reckless members of the Vagabond Trust writers group will be in attendance.
October 9, 2009
Tre are new poems to be found at the poetry zone. The newest piece,"Stuffing," is nice and topical heading into the Thanksgiving weekend. Also inspect "You are the love of my life," "Spy story" and "If I were a giant".
In other poetry news, the quirky charmers over at feathertale.com will be publishing my comedic piece, "Lunch at Dusty's," on their website on November 29th. Look for it then, babies.
October 8, 2009
Chapel Arm receives an official book launch and reading, along with several other new Canadian plays recently published by Scirocco Drama. Click here for the poster. I hope those of you in the Toronto area will check it out!
Date: October 19th, 2009
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Heliconian Hall, 31 Hazelton Avenue, Toronto, Ontario
Other featured artists:
Beverly Cooper
Annabell Fitzsimmons
Alison Lawrence
Mary Francis Moore
Marcia Johnson
Martha Ross
August 19, 2009
FUZZY WATERS had its world premiere tonight at the Black Box Theatre here in Fred Beach. This writer-director be's very, scary, lovely proud of his cast and crew. You can still catch the show Thursday-Saturday at 8pm.
August 18, 2009
CHAPEL ARM is officially in print and available for purchase thanks to the gorgeous folks at Scirocco Drama. Get your copy today. Here's the book info:
978-1-897289-44-0
DRA013000 DRAMA/CANADIAN
96PP 5.5 X 8.5 IN
$14.95 (CAN AND U.S.) PB
AUGUST 2009
Probably doable through a standard Google book search but I recommend ordering directly from Scirocco via the appropriate provincial contact:
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A new suite of poems has been added to the poetry section. She be called "My summer ended in July."
July 28, 2009
-The Fuzzy Waters poster is ready! Props to Gillian Hennessey-Macfarlane and the fine web-champions over at St. Thomas University for a thoughtful, compelling design.
-The launch for the fourth issue of Nonymous Quarterly took place at the Garrison District Ale House on July 27. Thanks to those who came out for the reading lineup; fewer thanks are extended to the noisy people at the back of the room who wanted to drink and discuss politics.
July 25, 2009
-Thank you to artsnb for their substantial financial contribution to the Fredericton debut production of my latest play, Fuzzy Waters. Ya gotta love arts lovers because they love you and you're all, like, "Hey Arts - love you, babe," and it just sort of takes flight from there, am I right?
-Fuzzy Waters runs August 19-22 in zee old familiar: Black Box Theatre, James Dunn Hall, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, NB, Canada. It's a radical event, really - some seventeen actors, and I'm writing, directing and acting so you know it's the best shit since Mel Gibson was right. Check out all the details at the Fuzzy Waters page, motherdrunkers. Moms drunk? Hm.
July 21, 2009
- The Broken Spoke was, by my account - and that's a vast and expensive account, really - a dancin' darkness success express. Kudos to director Lesandra Dodson, performers Susie Burpee, Susanne Chui, and Linnea Swan, sound designers Michael Doherty and Luis Cardoso, lighting designer Chris Saad and a host of other talented artists. I wrote some text for the piece. Here's hoping this baby gets remounted at some point.
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TWITCH by John Barlow
Presented by Theatre St. Thomas
March 11-12 @ 8pm in the Black Box Theatre