In the fall of 2021 playwright Robert Chafe set out on an interview tour of eastern Newfoundland, asking residents of coastal communities why they live where they live, and how they might see their future. The responses offer a new way to think about the love, risk, and resilience of living on the edge of a changing ocean. Produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Barbara Doran and Jerry McIntosh, Taking on Water takes the audience through the process of developing the musical-dramatic performance of the same name from local conversations about ocean and coastal change to final performances on the stage.
Barbara Doran
Director, Writer
Robert Chafe
Self
Nancy Dahn
Self
Barbara Doran
Narrator (voice)
Louise Moyes
Self
Randolph Peters
Self
Timothy Steeves
Self
Sherman's March67%
A Plastic Ocean75%
The Cheshire Murders65%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Public Speaking70%
The Class of ‘9271%
Directed by John Ford70%
Extremis69%
Sidney70%
Trainwreck: The Real Project X59%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
McQueen74%
Looking for Richard68%
Maternal Instinct71%
Harmontown66%
Love, Antosha74%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
Katy Perry: Part of Me71%
The Menendez Brothers72%
