I’m honoured to have been shortlisted for the first-ever Jenny Munday Atlantic Canadian Playwriting Award, presented by Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre. I’m in fine company!
Event image from Persistence Theatre.
I was commissioned to write a short one-person play about Women and Work in 1921 St. John’s. The result is A NEW WORLD FOR WOMEN. Thanks to Persistence Theatre for the inviting challenge of writing this piece, and thanks especially to Sharon King-Campbell and Margot Duley for their expertise in realms dramaturgical and historical. My character, Annie, has just finished her first day of work as a shopgirl on Water Street, and she has a LOT to say about it. I'm looking forward to seeing what the production team come up with to bring her to life.
From Persistence Theatre:
On Tuesday, September 7th, join us at Royal Canadian Legion Pleasantville Branch 56 for our next Ladies' Reading Room: Women and Work, featuring the new play A NEW WORLD FOR WOMEN by Sara Tilley, directed by Alix Reynolds, performed by Michaela Sheldon, and costume designed by Melanie Mooney.
Following there will be a panel discussion on the topic of Women and Work, moderated by Dr. Margot Duley with panelists including Dr. Allyson Stokes and Mary Shortall!
This event has free in-person admission by pre-registration. Register today and learn more: https://www.votesforwomen100.ca/september-women--work.html
Well, this is a first! I was interviewed by Megan Nimigon about Pochinko Clown through Mask for the Theatre for Good podcast.
It was a pleasure to try and explain the fundamentally unexplainable nature of this work. Check it out if you dare!
I was delighted to be asked by Robert Chafe of Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland to write a piece of audio theatre for the Bonavista Biennale this year. Part of Artistic Fraud’s project Ephemera, my piece Seafoam responds to an earlier artwork from the 2017 Biennale - Will Gill’s The Green Chair. Visitors can download the Ephemera app for their phones and then listen to the audio on-site in Maberly, where The Green Chair was originally installed.
Ephemera site map, 2021.
From Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland: “A conversation with the past, and an invitation to listen. Five of Atlantic Canada’s finest writers engage with legendary Bonavista Biennale artworks that transformed our relationship to the landscape forever. These short audio pieces, available through free located-audio phone app, provide a beautiful and wholly original way of thinking about the physical impermanence, but lasting legacy, of art.”
The other four pieces in the series are written by Lisa Moore, George Murray, Sharon Bala and shalan joudry. Ephemera is free to hear until the end of the Biennale on September 12, 2021.
Please note that cell reception is patchy throughout the Bonavista Peninsula, so you are advised to download the app and site map to your phone before you visit. The app will work even if you can’t get cell reception on-site. Headphones are recommended.
Hungry Little Shadow is a puppet show for all ages, inspired by a Slovenian folk tale.
Very young children should watch with a parent or guardian.
In a tiny, magical restaurant just big enough for a table for one, a grand tale is told. Lilu, also known as Shadow, is a hungry, orphaned kitten, desperate for a meal. This is no ordinary dining experience. Even the silverware gets transformed as the story of Shadow the Cat unfolds.
Written, directed and produced by Sara Tilley
Performed by Sara Tilley and Andrea McGuire
Puppet Design by Sara Tilley
Sound Design and Original Music by Andrea McGuire
Produced with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts/CBC Digital Originals Fund
Originally conceived as a live puppet show for one puppeteer and a volunteer audience member, Hungry Little Shadow has been re-envisioned as a digital film. This is a COVID-safe, made-in-a-bubble production.
Copyright Sara Tilley, 2021