In accordance with our mandate, The Foster Festival initiated our new play development program this past year, developing new Canadian scripts by playwrights other than the company’s namesake. After reading 72 submissions of new plays from across the country, the Festival selected three new works that were featured at our first annual Fostered Playwrights Festival. Time & Tide by Nova Scotian playwright, Jody Stevens McCluskey, is our first official selection from our Playwrights Festival to receive a full, world premiere production at The Foster Festival this fall.

Thank you to Cellar Door Wine Experience for supporting Canadian playwrights through our Play Development Program.

This project is also supported by the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario).

THE STORY:

A small Newfoundland fishing village has been home to the Murphys for generations. They have been born and bred, they have loved and lost, and, of course, they have always fished on the island since the first Murphy arrived. Rose couldn’t wait to leave for the big city, but finds herself drawn back to her home and her family as she struggles to make her mark on the world. Time & Tide explores the push and pull of love and the challenge of finding your place with and without family. All told through the keen lens of the beloved Newfoundland sense of humour.

PLEASE NOTE

This show contains mature themes and strong language that may not be suitable for children under the age of 13.

Parental guidance is advised.

MEET OUR TIME & TIDE ACTING COMPANY:

Donna Belleville as Nan

Donna is delighted to be back with the Foster Festival. Her first appearance was when she played Clara in the Festival's production of Jenny's House of Joy by Norm Foster. Donna resides in Niagara-on-the-Lake and spent 19 seasons as a member of the Shaw Festival. Selected credits at the Shaw Festival include: Pygmalion; When the Rain Stops Falling; Drama at Inish; Age of Arousal; Devil’s Disciple; Coronation Voyage; The Heiress; Magic Fire; Waiting for the Parade; Belle Moral; and A Little Night Music. She has appeared in over 100 productions in theatres across Canada, including Canadian Stage, Centaur, Neptune, Vancouver Playhouse, Theatre Calgary and Alberta Theatre Projects. She has appeared in over twenty premieres by such writers as Michael Tremblay, Michael Marc Bouchard and Ann Marie Macdonald.

Raquel Duffy as Kathleen

Raquel Duffy is an actor/creator/arts educator and is thrilled to be making her Foster Festival debut. She was a resident artist and worked with Soulpepper Theatre for over ten years. She has performed off-Broadway at the Signature Theatre in New York, the Stratford Festival, Tarragon Theatre, Neptune Theatre, Theatre Aquarius, Theatre New Brunswick, Eastern Front Theatre, Shakespeare by the Sea, and the Charlottetown Festival.

Rahul Gandhi as Jarrod

Rahul Gandhi is a trilingual actor, director, creator, and producer born, raised, and based in Montreal. Though his heart lies on stage, he wears a variety of hats in and around theatre, film, television, and arts administration. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting for the Theatre from Concordia University, as well as a Graduates Diploma from Communication and Media studies from the same university.

Stephen Guy-McGrath as Will

Stephen looks forward to making his Foster Festival debut this fall. He has performed in theatres across the country in everything from avant-garde experimental creations like Bunny F’er at the Rhubarb Festival to Dora award-winning commercial musicals ONCE at the Ed Mirvish Theatre. Over the past thirty years some highlights include: 5 seasons at the Charlottetown Festival (Mamma Mia, Anne, Million Dollor Quartet, Tell Tale Harbour); 10 seasons at Soulpepper; (Three Sisters, Midsummers Night Dream, As You Like It, Three Penny Opera, Glengarry Glen Ross, Xmas Carol); and every production of No Great Mischief (Tarragon, GCTC, Neptune, Vancouver Playhouse).

Evelyn Wiebe as Rose

Time & Tide marks Evelyn's debut with The Foster Festival. Born in Toronto and raised in Waterloo. Evelyn trained at the National Theatre School of Canada. She recently played Mary in Mary's Wedding at the Lighthouse Festival Theatre. Other recent theatre credits include: Cindy in The Darkest Dark at Young People’s Theatre; The Woman in The Other Place at Talk Is Free Theatre; and Phoebe in The Judas Kiss at Talk is Free Theatre. On screen credits include: CBC’s Murdoch Mysteries; the lead in the short, I Wanna Be Famous.

Time & Tide by Jody Stevens McCluskey

the Official Selection of our Fostered Playwrights Series

World Premiere | October 4-13

The Mandeville Theatre, Ridley College, St. Catharines

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