This is Nowhere

Wandering audiences are led on a city-wide scavenger hunt, led by a custom app that offered personal, timed, puzzle clues. Scenes are discovered at twelve different stations where the Halifax of the past collides with Halifax of the future.

Production Credits

Principal Writer: Kate Cayley
Conceived and Directed by: Alex McLean with Stewart Legere, Kathryn McCormack, Liliona Quarmyne, Ben Stone
Additional concept work by: Kate Cayley and Susan Leblanc
‘Justice’ scene written and conceived by: Sobaz Benjamin
‘Perspective’ scenes written and conceived by: Rebecca Thomas
App Development: Andrew Burke
Choreography by: Liliona Quarmyne
Choirs: Xara Choral Theatre, The Nova Scotia Mass Choir
Composer: Jason MacIsaac
Musical Arrangement and Transcription: David Christensen
Cast:
Love: Rebecca McCauley, Mary Fay Coady, Colleen MacIsaac, Sophie Schade, Lindsay Ross
Art: Matt Lumley, Briony Merritt
Memory: James MacLean, Gil Anderson
Belief: Tara Taylor, Stephanie MacDonald, Thomas Niles
Authority: Ailsa Galbreath, Kelin Boyd, Sheila McLean
Age: Jilly Richard, Zya Langdon, Ed Thomason, Steve Baker
Justice: Sobaz Benjamin, Lance Perry, Tim Dunn, Cst. Amit Parasram
Perspective: Sebastian Labelle, Lara Lewis, Kayla Gunn, Michelle Pillar, Rebecca Thomas, Aaron Prosper
Play: Deirdre Lee, Stepheny Hunter, Gina Thornhill, Jeff Schwager
Inclusion: Jennifer Powley
Commerce: Anthony Black
Disagreement: Peter Sarty
Wanderers: Rena Kossatz, Eunice Abaga, Allison Basha, Katie Dorion, Genevieve Steele, Madeline Tench, Roland Au, Lesley Smith, Kyle Gillis, Ivy Charles, Ryan Gallant, Sam Vigneult
Dancers: Jacinte Armstrong, Kendra Armstrong, Molly Johnson
Production Manager: Jessica Lewis
Crew: Emily Robinson, Georgia DuVall, Simon Ross-Siegel, Dan Bray, Simon Rainville, Lee-Anne Poole, Vern Endicott, Ben Hammer, Carmen Lee, Andrea Dymond, Benoit Gravel, Jocelyn Pringle, Alison Crosby, Anna Shephard
Video Designers: Nick Bottemley, Anna Shepard
Accessibility Coordinator: Steve Estey
Marketing: 3 o’clock Communications
Assistant Producers: Sophie Schade, Ariel Bates and Rooks Field-Green
Producers: Alex McLean and Anika Riopel
This is Nowhere was funded through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter program.

Production History

Downtown Halifax, NS, 26-30 September 2018