A Place to Call Home: Living Heritage at Cupids
Written by: Trudy Morgan-Cole
Directed by: Sharon King-Campbell
July 14th – September 4th, 2022
Wednesday to Sunday: 11am, 1pm, and 3pm.
For tickets call: +1 (709) 528-1610
Wednesday to Sunday: 11am, 1pm, and 3pm.
For tickets call: +1 (709) 528-1610
In this exciting new experience, the Cupids Legacy Centre brings together the impeccable historical knowledge we have accumulated, together with the exemplary historical fiction writer, Trudy Morgan-Cole, who has recently authored two books exploring Cupids; and celebrated director (and long-time historical interpreter) Danielle Irvine, whose very successful theatre company, Perchance Theatre*, is based in Cupids.
These contributors have worked hard to create an exciting, insightful, and inspiring piece of living interpretation that will become a regular feature at Cupids Legacy Centre this summer and in future years.
These contributors have worked hard to create an exciting, insightful, and inspiring piece of living interpretation that will become a regular feature at Cupids Legacy Centre this summer and in future years.
Kathryn Guy
Played by Monica Walsh
Kathryn’s experiences are loosely based on those of the first English women to settle in Cupids in 1612, and particularly on the “wife of Nicholas Guy” who was the mother of the first English child born in Newfoundland in 1613.
Played by Monica Walsh
Kathryn’s experiences are loosely based on those of the first English women to settle in Cupids in 1612, and particularly on the “wife of Nicholas Guy” who was the mother of the first English child born in Newfoundland in 1613.
Sam Rowe
Played by Steve O’Connell and Bruce Brenton
Sam Rowe, a fisherman and sailor. Born in Cupids in 1850, Sam is a fictional character who represents the generations of fishermen who made Cupids their home.
Played by Steve O’Connell and Bruce Brenton
Sam Rowe, a fisherman and sailor. Born in Cupids in 1850, Sam is a fictional character who represents the generations of fishermen who made Cupids their home.
Louisa Dawe
Played by Nicole Redmond
Louisa Dawe, born in Cupids in 1912, went into service in St. John’s at the age of 14 and returned home at 19 to marry a fisherman. Louisa is a fictional character whose life experiences represent those of many of the women of Cupids in her generation.
Played by Nicole Redmond
Louisa Dawe, born in Cupids in 1912, went into service in St. John’s at the age of 14 and returned home at 19 to marry a fisherman. Louisa is a fictional character whose life experiences represent those of many of the women of Cupids in her generation.
Meet the Team
Sharon King-Campbell is a director, writer, actor, and storyteller who divides her time between St. John's and Winteron, NL. She has directed for companies across the province including Best Kind Productions, New Curtain Theatre, Grand Bank Regional Theatre, Stephenville Theatre Festival, Girl Power Inc, and Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland. She is often a featured teller at St. John's Storytelling Festival events and has told stories as far afield as New Zealand. Sharon has won the Rhonda Payne Award in theatre and Arts & Letters Awards in fiction, poetry and dramatic script. She is currently pursuing her PhD at Memorial University.
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Monica Walsh is an actor, writer, producer and singer. She is artistic director and founder of Kanutu Theatre and in 2015 founded ‘Scene and Blurred’ an open mic series for writers and theatre artists. Training includes Memorial University’s Stage and Screen Diploma, Acting Method London, and Movement Theatre Studio NYC. Monica is the 2018 winner of the Rhonda Payne Theatre Award. She is very happy to be working here at the Cupids Legacy Centre this summer.
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Steve O'Connell: In addition to a long career on stage, and on screens, both big and small, Steve has been involved in many other Historical Performance Projects like this over the years. Previous credits include: The Grand Bank Theatre Festival (Artistic Director, 1999); Receiving The World: 2001 (Artistic Director, Writer, and Guglielmo Marconi actor); Celebrating Bartlett: 2009 (Assistant Producer, Writer, and Captain Bob Bartlett actor); and as a Dark Minion of The St. John’s Haunted Hike since 2001, among many others. Steve is excited to be part of this new endeavour, and is looking forward to working with Sharon, the rest of the cast, the staff here at the Cupids Legacy Centre, and especially with his fellow Sam, his old buddy Bruce.
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Nicole Redmond is an actor from Bay Roberts. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Grenfell Campus, Memorial University and has performed in a variety of roles throughout her program including: #14 (The Wolves), Anya (The Cherry Orchard), The White Rabbit (Alice in Wonderland), 1st Witch (Macbeth), and Smeraldina (The Servant of Two Masters). Recently she has worked with Salt Teeth Theatre Company playing Jane in Cashin Avenue and Mun Drama Society’s production of “It’s Up To You” playing Paige. Film credits include Astrid and Lily Save the World, ASKIN’ FOR IT and most recently landed the role of Penelope Gumble on Hudson and Rex. Nicole has also studied dance, voice and piano, and made her directing debut back in 2021, directing the show The Nether. She is excited to be working on this project and hopes everyone enjoys this walk through history.
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Originally from Glovertown, Bruce Brenton is a teacher and actor now living in St. John’s. He's been working in theatre for over 35 years. Select roles include Prospero, Tempest; Falstaff, Merry Wives of Windsor; Voice of Audrey II, Little Shop of Horrors; Mr. Cellophane, Chicago; Dr. Scott, Rocky Horror Show. He also performed with Perchance Theatre, Cupids in 2014. Bruce teaches Drama as well as introductory sewing, knitting, rug-hooking, embroidery, and similar crafty things at Prince of Wales Collegiate. Bruce and his wife Sharon have two sons (Dylan and Jordan) and just recently became grandparents to the beautiful Rosalie Darling Brentwood. We would like to thank our daughter in law Tessa for adding such grace and beauty to the family genepool.
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Trudy Morgan-Cole is a writer and educator living in St. John's. She is the author of numerous works of historical fiction including By the Rivers of Brooklyn, A Sudden Sun, Most Anything You Please, and more. Her particular interest is in uncovering and re-imagining the lost and silenced voices of women in history. Her Cupids trilogy, a fictional exploration of the earliest English settlements on the island of Newfoundland, began with A Roll of the Bones (Breakwater Books) in 2019. Volume 2, Such Miracles and Mischiefs, was released in 2021, with the final book, A Company of Rogues, coming in fall 2023.
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Danielle Irvine is a proud Newfoundlander who has had to travel a lot for her work. Highlights of her career include teaching and directing at the National Theatre School of Canada; Assistant Directing at the Stratford Festival of Canada; and winning such awards as the Canada Council for the Arts prestigious John Hirsch Prize for Directing, the ArtsNL BMO Artist of the Year, and the ArtsNL Artist’s Achievement Award 2019. Danielle was also a participant in the World Stage Festival 2000’s Master Class for Directors and the inaugural International Classical Directing Intensive at the Stratford Festival. For almost 30 years, she has been directing theatrical productions of all sizes and types in all manner of venues. Her love and passion for NL culture combined with her theatre training inspired Danielle to co-develop a show with Anna Stassis which brought audiences through a theatrical experience on a bus, a ferry, around Bell Island and culminated 650 feet underground in a mine. This was listed by the Professional Association of Canadian Theatres as a Landmark Theatrical Event in 1997. She was one of the founders of the Shakespeare by the Sea Festival in NL, as well as the founding artistic director of Sweetline Theatre Company. She has also been a keynote speaker and workshop leader at various conferences over the years and is also a casting director for television and film. Credits include: CBC’s Republic of Doyle; the Netflix series, Frontier; the CBC Series, LittleDog; the CBC mini-series, Caught; the Citytv Series, Hudson and Rex; and the feature film, Maudie. Recently, she has been nominated a YWCA Woman of Distinction for Arts and Culture and a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Excellence in Casting for Frontier. Since 2014, Danielle has been bringing her love of Newfoundland culture and community, together with her passion for Shakespeare and other timeless theatre in her role as the Artistic Director of Perchance Theatre at Cupids. Most recently their Power of One series was awarded the Tourism Innovation Award by Hospitality Newfoundland and Labrador. She is thrilled to be a part of this new initiative with the Cupids Legacy Centre, bringing lost history to life in such an evocative performance style.
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