Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador (TNL) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating and producing professional theatre which reflects the lives and dirversity of our audiences on the provinces's west coast, extending to labrador and across the island of Newfoundland.
Through the Gros Morne Theatre Festival, youth theatre programming, main stage, courses in threatre instruction, and by touring productions to outport communities, TNL seeks to provide Newfoundlanders with thought-provoking and relevant entertainment, with an emphasis on regional and Canadian work.
To promote Theatre Newfoundland Labrador as a leading cultural voice for its communities, and to develop and maintain a growing arts community and audience on the west coast of Newfoundland & Labrador.
TNL actively promotes the development of theatre artists and the growth of an indigenous arts community through youth theatre instruction, the fostering of emerging artists in our winter season and at the Gros Morne Theatre Festival.
TNL reaches out to its community, by providing programmes in theatre instruction, youth theatre productions, Gros Morne Theatre Festival, and by touring mainstage productions. In so doing we aspire to enrich the cultural life of our community and to inspire new audiences to a life-long love affair with the theatre. Our programming must reflect an awareness of Canadian and world theatre as well as our own, in order to bring the world to the west coast of Newfoundland & Labrador and at the same time help our audiences to see themselves.
TNL seeks to forge an alchemy of traditional theatre rendered in fresh and innovative ways, and alternative theatre produced in ways which provide access and engagement for our audiences. We are committed to finding and helping to develop emerging artists in western Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, the Atlantic provinces and in Canada.
As a grassroots organization heavily involved with our communities, TNL must be as concerned with the process of developing a theatre audience and a community of artists, as with production. That means we must remain devoted to audience development and young artists and provide both with artistic leadership and a stable and creative professional context in which to develop.
Welcome to the Gros Morne Theatre Festival 2008! What a summer we're going to have! This year we're basing our stories firmly in the rural landscape and certain universal themes seem to run true no matter what country you're in - from rural Russia to rural Ireland to rural Newfoundland and Labrador there'll be comedy, drama and tragedy along with Dinner Theatre, Musical Times and outdoor family shows! Something for everyone!
For the past twelve years we've entertained 91,995 audience members and this summer we'll entertain another 13,000 why not be our 100,000th patron?! This is Newfoundland professional theatre at its finest over 40 professional actors, musicians, writers, designers and technicians will be working hard for over four months to bring you the best in entertainment 8 plays all summer long! Join us we'll make you laugh, we'll make you cry, we'll make you sing well, we won't make you sing but if you do, we'll probably join in!
Here's to lookin' at ya this summer!
Jeff Pitcher
