2005, Volume 98 Number 1

On The Cover ...

Abandoned fishing rooms at Lear’s Cove near Port de Grave.
Photo by: Dennis Flynn

In this issue:

Feature Articles ...

Twinning Lines: Sheilagh O’Leary’s Portraits from Newfoundland & Ireland by Lisa Moore

The Newfoundland actor, Brian Hennessey, has a distinctive nose, very similary in shape and size to the nose of the irish theatre director Ben Hennessey. Can any other cultural, historical, or genealogical conclusions be drawn from putting the portraits of these two men side by side? [ read online ]

Shank’s Mare by Peter Gard

To walk along the East Coast Trail is to follow pathways set down over the course of more than four centuries.

Rising Tide in Trinity Bight by Helen Peters

It is now 11 years since the summer of 1994 when Donna Butt staged Rising Tide Theatre’s first festival in Trinity Bight, beginning the return to her earliest experience in theatre.

Sarah Joy Stoker and the Festival of New Dance by Jon Whalen

I meet up with Sarah Joy Stoker at the house she shares with her sister Stephanie in downtown St. John’s. She’s been on the phone and the computer all day, in the final phase of organizing the fifteenth annual Festival of New Dance.

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