Many years ago five young men committed a crime. Today one of them has been taken into police custody. The four other men, now middle aged, still at liberty, meet to discuss their options and whether they will, as they thought they would all that time ago, run. They confront what they cannot bear to leave behind and that from which they long to escape. They face who they really were and what they have become. They ask, if you had to, could you run?

Hail was commissioned by RCA Theatre Company and has been workshopped in partnership with Kim McCaw at The University of Alberta. We look forward to producing this new work by one of Newfoundland’s most accomplished authors next season.

Left Right and Centre
by Anne Chislett

A new play by governor General award winning playwright Anne Chislett, commissioned by RCA theatre.

When the long standing MHA from Greater Nor by Nor’east Cove is arrested for fraud, and the fate of the government hangs on the by-election, three unlikely candidates turn their lives, and the peaceful district of Greater Nor by Nor’East Cove, upside down.

Anne has just accepted a position in the Theatre Department at Dalhousie University. We wish her the best in this exciting new job and look forward to working with her again soon!

The Fights
by Ben Pittman

The Fights tells the tale of Johnny Dwyer, a Newfoundland man living in New York City in post-Civil War America. Johnny moves to the States with his brother and father after a bad fishery in Nfld and begins working for the Daily Eagle Newspaper in Brooklyn. After an accident involving his father, a bad review and a challenge from a local tough guy, Johnny finds himself in a whirlwind adventure amidst shady saloon owners, corrupt politicians and the toughest bare-knuckle prizefighters of the Gilded Age. Boxing was at this time illegal and Johnny’s quest to attain the world title sends him to a world of crime and scandal. What will he sacrifice? Who? He learns what it means to face a dream and see it in perfect clarity. Is it his own?