Behind the Play

Here’s our conversation with playwright Len Falkenstein. Len’s play Wood Buffalo makes its world premiere at the Open Space Theatre in November.  Full details and ticket information can be found  HERE . Wood Buffalo (world premiere): November 8-12 | Fredericton, NB | Open Space Theatre November 14 | Florenceville-Bristol, NB | (Weldon Matthews Theatre) November 15 | Dalhousie, NB | (LER Theatre) |...

Jenny Munday dedicated more than 30 years of her life to the Canadian theatre community, working with several organizations including Mulgrave Road Theatre, the Blyth Festival, the Banff Playwrights Colony, Rising Tide Theatre, Live Bait Theatre, Neptune Theatre, and with us, here at TNB. A fierce advocate for new script development, Jenny is known to many through her work with Playwrights Atlanti...

Jenny Munday dedicated more than 30 years of her life to the Canadian theatre community, working with several organizations including Mulgrave Road Theatre, the Blyth Festival, the Banff Playwrights Colony, Rising Tide Theatre, Live Bait Theatre, Neptune Theatre, and with us, here at TNB. A fierce advocate for new script development, Jenny is known to many through her work with Playwrights Atlanti...

Jenny Munday dedicated more than 30 years of her life to the Canadian theatre community, working with several organizations including Mulgrave Road Theatre, the Blyth Festival, the Banff Playwrights Colony, Rising Tide Theatre, Live Bait Theatre, Neptune Theatre, and with us, here at TNB. A fierce advocate for new script development, Jenny is known to many through her work with Playwrights Atlanti...

Jenny Munday dedicated more than 30 years of her life to the Canadian theatre community, working with several organizations including Mulgrave Road Theatre, the Blyth Festival, the Banff Playwrights Colony, Rising Tide Theatre, Live Bait Theatre, Neptune Theatre, and with us, here at TNB. A fierce advocate for new script development, Jenny is known to many through her work with Playwrights Atlanti...

Jenny Munday dedicated more than 30 years of her life to the Canadian theatre community, working with several organizations including Mulgrave Road Theatre, the Blyth Festival, the Banff Playwrights Colony, Rising Tide Theatre, Live Bait Theatre, Neptune Theatre, and with us, here at TNB. A fierce advocate for new script development, Jenny is known to many through her work with Playwrights Atlanti...

Jenny Munday dedicated more than 30 years of her life to the Canadian theatre community, working with several organizations including Mulgrave Road Theatre, the Blyth Festival, the Banff Playwrights Colony, Rising Tide Theatre, Live Bait Theatre, Neptune Theatre, and with us, here at TNB. A fierce advocate for new script development, Jenny is known to many through her work with Playwrights Atlanti...

In 2017, we conducted an interview with Jenny for the Theatre New Brunswick archives. We met for lunch at the home of our dear friend and constant supporter Ilkay Silk on a cold fall morning. (If you listen closely you can hear the clanking of dishes and the sounds of food being served and enjoyed!)  Divided into eight short episodes, this series will feature highlights from that conversation touc...

Jenny dedicated more than 30 years of her life to the Canadian theatre community, working with several organizations including Mulgrave Road Theatre, the Blyth Festival, the Banff Playwrights Colony, Rising Tide Theatre, Live Bait Theatre, Neptune Theatre, and with us, here at TNB. A fierce advocate for new script development, Jenny is known to many through her work with Playwrights Atlantic Resou...

This episode of Behind the Play features TNB Outreach Coordinator and playwright Jena McLean in conversation and Mike Ross and Sarah Wilson, co-creators of Rose - A New Musical, which will be on stage at the Fredericton Playhouse April 21-22. This production is one of two Senior Student productions running next week at the Fredericton Playhouse. Details below: The Little Prince | April 18-19 | 7:3...

This episode of Behind the Play features a conversation between TNB Outreach Coordinator and playwright Jena McLean and playwright Jivesh Parasram, who is currently touring his one-person play Take d Milk, Nah? to theatres in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.  Take d Milk, Nah? is unlike anything we have presented in the past. Part comedy, part reality check, Parasram’s play tackles enormous issues i...

The second of a two-part conversation between TNB Outreach Coordinator and playwright Jena McLean and playwright Don Hannah.  This time around Don and Jena get into the weeds of playwriting and look at how the characters in Resident Aliens interconnect, how time is used as a tool for storytelling, and how this play differs from everything else Don has done.  Resident Aliens makes its wor...

The first of a two-part conversation between TNB Outreach Coordinator and playwright Jena McLean and playwright Don Hannah. In their conversation, Don shares his experience growing up in Shediac in the 1950s, learning what it means to be an outsider, and learning about Vivian Larsen and her adventures.  This conversation was edited for length and will be continued in the next episode. We hope...

On July 24, 1959, a 50-something widow from Shediac set off on the journey of a lifetime. Her mission: to meet Walt Disney and share with him a secret she believed would somehow pay for her daughter’s university education. Her means: a wagon pulled by a retired milk horse named Bob. The story of Vivian Larsen plays an important part in our upcoming world premiere production of Resident Aliens by D...

Behind the Play is a podcast produced by Theatre New Brunswick. In this first episode we speak with Artistic and Executive Director Natasha MacLellan about her relationship with playwright Don Hannah and his work.  Natasha is a passionate proponent of new scripts and new play development. And when the pandemic put a stop to live, in-person performances of all shapes and sizes, Natasha started...