Fear of Flight

Hi everyone,

I'm in St. John's, Newfoundland rehearsing a brand new show called FEAR OF FLIGHT. FoF is the brainchild of Jillian Keiley and Robert Chafe of Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland.

FoF is an a cappella opera for fourteen performers set on an airplane. The piece is woven around scenes and monologues written by—get ready for this—Robert Chafe, Denise Clarke, Marie Clements, Bryden MacDonald, Daniel MacIvor, Bernie Stapleton, Judith Thompson, Guillermo Verdecchia, and David Yee. Ninety-five percent of the show is underscored by a glorious score composed by Jonathan Monro.

I'm tremendously proud that Cahoots is a co-producer on the world premiere of this piece. And I'm equally excited to be performing with this amazing theatre company and with a visionary director like Jill Keiley.

Every now and again I'll be posting some video blogs of our journey. Here's a video from day four of rehearsal:



And here's the in-flight magazine prop I'm talking about:



Obviously, I'm not the only one challenged by the prop. Here's soprano Julia Halfyard: