Todd Allen has taken the plunge from reading books to writing them with his debut novel, Sacra Obscurum. Sacra Obscurum grew from Allen’s first hand experience with New Brunswick’s mental health care system after he and his wife made an emergency trip to the hospital to visit a recently arrested family member. The process would ultimately lead Allen to a gauntlet of psychiatrists, diagnoses, and ‘assembly line care’. Continue reading Todd Allen: Dark Fiction in Saint Andrews
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In Review: Saint John Theatre Company’s 937 – The Voyage of the St. Louis
Two years ago, Saint John Theatre Company‘s artistic director Stephen Tobias experienced Two Planks And A Passion Theatre‘s production of 937 – The Spirit of St Louis at the Atlantic FRINGE Festival and knew he wanted to share this experience with the Saint John community. This unique production explores the story of one Jewish family escaping Nazi persecution and is told without words. For the past year, he has worked with the Saint John Jewish Historical Museum and the Anglophone School District – South to produce a two week tour at various schools and several community shows in the greater Saint John area. Continue reading In Review: Saint John Theatre Company’s 937 – The Voyage of the St. Louis