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Robert Chafe

ROBERT CHAFE

  
Nationality:    Canadian
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Robert Chafe's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Robert Chafe's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Afterimage         Butler's Marsh         Charismatic Death Scenes         Emptygirl         Isle Des Demons         Lemons         Oil And Water         One Foot Wet         Place Of First Light         Signals         Tempting Providence         Under Wraps         Vive La Rose

Afterimage

Synopsis:
Lise a nurse has the gift of being able to see flashes of the future. She is shunned by her community. One day a badly burnt man is admited to the hospital. Lise sees his future. they become friends and fall in love and get married. Years later two of their children has inherited her gift

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One act

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Male:  4            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Butler's Marsh

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 2005   -

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Charismatic Death Scenes

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Emptygirl

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto,    -

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Isle Des Demons

Synopsis:
the true story of Marguerite de la Roque, a French noble woman who, along with her lover and her aging attendant, was abandoned in the spring of 1542 on the so called Isle of Demons, now believed to be on the Quebec north shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Inhospitable climate, and grave isolation resulted in the death of her attendant, her lover, and her newborn child, all within the first year of her stay on the island. She, miraculously, managed to survive another year and a half on her own before being rescued

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1st Produced:
Gros Morne Theatre Festival, Canada    2004

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Theatre Newfoundland Labrador

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Lemons

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Oil And Water

Synopsis:
the true story of Lanier Phillips Shipwrecked aboard the USS Truxton in 1942 off the coast of Newfoundland, Mr. Phillips was the only African American survivor. Rescued and cared for by the residents of the village of St. Lawrence, the experience changed the life of this son of the segregated South.

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part of Unknown Country

1st Produced:
WorkShop Theater Jewel Box
312 West 36th Street, 4th floor, New York, NY 10018    25 Jan 2013

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One Foot Wet

Synopsis:
set in the present day and is about a Canadian tourist who visits Poole in Dorset, england

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part of New Found Lands consisting of two thematically linked one Act plays; "One Foot Wet" written by Robert Chafe, whose play "Tempting Providence" was short listed for the Governor General's Award for Literature in Canada And "Winter" by Nell Leyshon, winner of the Charles Wintour evening Standard Award for her play set in Somerset "Comfort Me With Apples"

1st Produced:
Gros Morne Theatre Festival in Canada    2007

Organisations:
Forest Forge Theatre and Theatre Newfoundland Labrador

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Place Of First Light

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Signals

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Tempting Providence

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Commissioned by theatre Newfoundland Labrador, Tempting Providence is a heart-felt portrayal of Nurse Myra Bennett, a British-born nurse who came to Newfoundland after learning of the desperate need for medical aid in rural communities. Nurse Bennett arrived in Daniel's Harbour on the Northern Peninsula in the spring of 1921. She signed on for a year - but stayed - and during more than 50 years of service delivered over 700 babies, extracted 5,000 teeth, set broken limbs, performed kitchen table operations by lamplight and was known throughout the province as the Florence Nightingale of the North.

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Theatre Newfoundland Labrador

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Playwrights Co-op, Toronto, 2005   -

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Under Wraps

Under Wraps
Mark works in a furniture and he meets David an out of work lifeguard. They have an instant attraction - but Mark is not sure whether David is gay. In fact Mark is not sure that mark is gay. Mark decides to just be friends with David

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Playwrights Canada Press 2015   978-1770912519

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Vive La Rose

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Stephenville Theatre Festival    -

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