Past Shows

2023

The Grown-Ups

by Simon Henriques and Skylar Fox

The campers are all finally asleep, and the lake is getting quiet. Have a beer; make a s’more; tell a scary story. Figure out what you’re going to have to do in the morning to keep camp fun and safe without letting the kids find out about... well, you’ve seen the news. I just got a push notification—they’re getting closer.


Following a group of camp counselors trying to mold the leaders of tomorrow when tomorrow is looking bleaker and bleaker, The Grown-Ups explores the traditions that change us, what it takes for us to change them, and how to change yourself when you’re hopelessly, tragically not prepared for this.


“An apocalyptic play... part satire, part scary story.” – The New York Times

Barbara Barrett Theatre

November 2 - 4 @ 7pm

Digital Program

UPDATE: Show runs two hours, no intermission

2022

The Play that Goes Wrong

High School Edition

By Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, and Jonathan Sayer

From Mischief, Broadway masters of comedy, comes the smash hit farce. Welcome to opening night of the Cornley University Drama Society’s newest production, The Murder at Haversham Manor, where things are quickly going from bad to utterly disastrous. This 1920s whodunit has everything you never wanted in a show—an unconscious leading lady, a corpse that can’t play dead, and actors who trip over everything (including their lines). Nevertheless, the accident-prone thespians battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! Part Monty Python, part Sherlock Holmes, this Olivier Award–winning comedy is a global phenomenon that’s guaranteed to leave you aching with laughter!

Silas Murray, Jack Mosney, Hannah Roberts, Cole Williams, Owen Carter, Jayla Jacobs, Addison Brooklyn, Cam Johnston, Ava Canning, Alexander Pumphrey, Rose Avoine-Dalton

Barbara Barrett Theatre

November 24 - 26 @ 7pm

Funded by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council. We acknowledge the support of ArtsNL, which last year invested $2.35 million to foster and promote the creation and enjoyment of the arts for the benefit of all Newfoundlanders and Labradorians.

2019

The Wolves

by Sarah DeLappe

Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburban stretch circle, the team navigates big questions and wages tiny battles with all the vim and vigor of a pack of adolescent warriors. A portrait of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for nine American girls who just want to score some goals.

Finalist, 2017 Pulitzer prize for Drama

Not recommended for under 14. Contains strong language and mature subject matter. 

November 7,8,9 @ 7pm

Barbara Barrett Theatre

Ananya Antony, Rose Avoir-Dalton, Emma Bartlett, Jayne Batstone, Jane Butler, Rachael Currie, Andrya Duff, Samantha Frew, Aferdita Kukac, Amelia Mitchell, Alexandra Ralph

An Image Now of you Then

by John Bowden

Alan had a brother, and now he has a tattoo. Perhaps the tattoo is a fitting memorial of his brother, or perhaps it's a vain attempt at one. Tattoos, photos, recordings, letters – all things we bring to the future from the past. But are these things truly permanent, when even we ourselves aren't? 

September 5-22 2019: Sept 19 @ 7pm, Sept 20 @ 9pm, Sept 21 @ 9pm

LSPU Hall

Cole Williams, Erica Foote, Rachael Currie, Cam Johnston, Grant Hayden, Amelia Mitchell


2018

Begets : Fall of a High School Ronin

by Qui Nguyen

In this action-packed samurai story set inside the halls of an all-American high school, Begets: Fall of a High School Ronin tells the tale of Emi Edwards, a high school geekgurl who's fighting to overthrow the cruel shoguns of her school. However in her journey to right wrongs, will her own cravings for popularity and power corrupt her quest to save the school? Will she able to establish a new world order? Or will violence just beget more violence?

Not recommended for under 14. Contains strong language.

November 15, 16, 17, 2018 at 8pm. November 17 matinee at 2pm.

LSPU Hall

Ananya Antony, Rose Dalton, Erica Foote, Emma Hayden, Grant Hayden, Juan Hiedra, Caleb Layman, Kate Whelan, Cole Williams

Poster by Graham Blair Designs


Funded by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council. We acknowledge the support of ArtsNL, which last year invested $2.5 million to foster and promote the creation and enjoyment of the arts for the benefit of all Newfoundlanders and Labradorians..

The Red Coat

by John Patrick Shanley

In The Red Coat, a teenage boy in the Bronx lays in wait outside a party for a girl he hardly knows. 

September 2018

LSPU Hall

Erica Foote, Cam Johnston

Performed as part of St. John's Shorts


2017

Brief Encounter

By Noël Coward

1938, a train station. Alec and Laura are married - but not to each other. They meet, by chance, in the cafe of a train station, and begin a love affair, which they both know is ultimately doomed.

December 7-9, 2017

LSPU Hall

Emma Hayden, Caleb Layman, Cole Williams, Kate Whelan, Alison Batstone, Erica Foote, Nathan Mackey, Isabel Acevedo, Joaquin Acevedo, Rachael Currie, Cainan Rose, Juan Hiedra, Aiden Fitzpatrick, Brendan Fitzpatrick, Lucas Spry

Poster by Graham Blair Designs


Heart's Desire

by Caryl Churchill

An elderly couple and aunt are waiting for a daughter to arrive home after years in Australia, but she is taking her time and the waiting is difficult. Dialogue is repeated over and over, each repetition sending the story veering in lurid and comical directions.

September 17, 20, 22, 2017

LSPU Hall

Aaron Dawe, Emma Hayden, Erica Foote, Jarod Burden, Nicole Bussey, Caroline Keats, Cam Johnston, Kate Whelan

Facebook Event


2016

Love and Information

by Caryl Churchill

Someone can’t get a signal. Someone won’t answer the door. Someone put an elephant on the stairs. Someone’s not ready to talk. Someone hates irrational numbers. Someone told the police. Someone got a message from the traffic light. Someone doesn’t understand pain. Someone’s never felt like this before.

Love and Information is an insightful, poetic, and fast-­paced play by award-­winning British playwright Caryl Churchill.

In over fifty scenes, more than a hundred characters are confronted with the things they know, don’t know, want to know, or want to forget. We get a glimpse of their attempts to discover meaning in the moment. In an age of big data and splintered attention spans, Love and Information challenges us to understand what it means to be truly connected with each other.

November 10, 12, 13, 2016, 8pm

LSPU Hall

Adam Brown, Maggie Coady, Emily Corcoran, Erica Foote, Emma Hayden, Cameron Johnston, Bronwyn Keough, Martha King, Luke Rowe, Rose Walters, Kate Whelan, Cole Williams, Sophia Williams

Facebook Event Page

Poster by Graham Blair Designs

2015

Brick

by Rian Johnson, adapted by Chris White

Brendan - thick as what all - gets a phone call from his ex: Emily. "I screwed up real bad", she says. She rambles: "I did what she said with the brick, I didn't know it was bad, but The Pin's on it now for poor Frisco and they're playing it all on me." Brendan's not looking for a patch up. He just wants to help her deal with ... whatever this is. And then she turns up dead. What's left to do? Get the straight, and break some deserving teeth. 

December 3-5, 2015, 7pm

Barbara Barrett Theatre

Nick Bendzsa, Adam Brown, Sarah Connors, Haylee Field, Erica Foote, Jim Healey, Bronwyn Keough, Martha King, Nathan Mackey, Luke Rowe, Sheila Ryan, Kyle Saunders, Maria Shaw, Rose Walters, Kate Whelan, Cole Williams, Noah Williams

Poster by Graham Blair Designs

Show Playbill

Original screenplay by Rian Johnson

Adapted for stage by Chris White