The River Clyde Pageant is proud to present Late Night Radio by the North Barn Theatre Collective, for a limited run from August 14 to 16 in New Glasgow, PEI.
In the dusk light of a field, a row of cars are parked facing an empty frame, their radios tuned to an FM broadcast. As the radio announcer interviews a radical poet about the end of the world, a spectacle emerges from the nearby trees. A sunflower opens its eye, a raccoon strikes up the orchestra, and the world outside of our vehicles creeps into our consciousness through sound, image, poetry and song. Dancing in the interplay between dusk and night, hope and grief, The North Barn Theatre Collective contemplates the consequences of a pandemic, our interrelatedness to the non-human world and our collective stumbling into the unknown, both together and apart. Late Night Radio is a new puppet theatre spectacle, experienced as a drive-in performance, allowing audiences to witness live theatre in a socially distant format.
Admission by donation.
In-Vehicle admission: Suggested donation of $50
Out-of-vehicle admission: Suggested donation of $40
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Performance Schedule:
August 14th @ 8pm
August 15th @ 8pm
August 16th @ 8pm
All performances take place on
The River Clyde Pageant site in New Glasgow, PEI.
2765 New Glasgow Rd., RR #3
About the North Barn Theatre Collective:
The North Barn Theatre Collective is a group of Nova Scotian puppeteers and theatre makers who have been working internationally for the past few years across the United States, Canada and Europe with such companies as Bread and Puppet Theater, the Canadian Academy of Mask and Puppetry, The River Clyde Pageant and more. With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, these artists have returned home and are planting roots in the communities that raised them. Bringing their expertise and artistic influences from many distant places, The North Barn Theatre Collective aims to connect locally while dreaming globally.
Lead Artists:
Laura Stinson - Writer, Co-creator, puppeteer, co-producer
Ian McFarlane - Writer, co-creator, puppeteer, co-producer
Megan Stewart - Dramaturg, puppeteer, co-producer
Experienced much like a drive-in cinema, Late Night Radio is a socially-distant, live theatre performance where audiences tune in their car radios to an FM broadcast as a spectacle emerges in the landscape before them. This is a gathering of up to 65 people (including audience members, volunteers and performers), where the majority of spectators are kept within their enclosed vehicles, with a few small groups of audience members observing out-of-vehicle, within demarcated, distanced spaces.
To learn more about our Covid-19 operations plan and the measures in place for public safety, click here.
Sponsored by Granville Ridge Consulting
