Sixth Annual New Works Festival to be held March 21 – 30 (note new end date!)

Live Bait Theatre New Works Festival 2024 Please note – all Festival events are pay-what-you-can at the door.

You can reserve a space for some events – if that’s the case there will be a link to reserve them in the event details in section marked SCHEDULE below.

If there is no link, there are no reservations and you should just show up at the door.

Unless noted in the DAY BY DAY SCHEDULE section below, all events will also be streaming on Live Bait’s Facebook page which is https://www.facebook.com/LiveBaitTheatre Featuring (See DAY BY DAY SCHEDULE and more details below) Theatre Reading of “Family Reunion” by Morgan Grant and “The Bartender’s Friend” by Michael Warren – reserve tickets for in-person event here Reading of “The Dawning Colours” by Devin Rockwell – reserve tickets for in-person event here World premiere of the play “Ashe” by Sue Rose – reserve tickets for in-person event here In collaboration with Playwrights’ Atlantic Resource Centre, presentation of U-Compete Youth Playwriting Contest winners – reserve tickets for in-person event here Music Presented in association with Sappyfest and CHMA Radio – Caged Animals and Tess Poirier Workshops POSTPONED – contact us for details “Panto Femme: Finding Your Feminine Power on Stage” with CJ Norris “Be(ad)ing Indigenous: Connecting Culture to a Medium” with Paul Brisk Jr. – reserve tickets for the in-person event here “Get Weird, Be Proud: The Importance of “Failure” in Improv” (for adults) with Hannah Lucas – reserve tickets for the workshop for adults here Literature Reading by Charlie Rhindress from his upcoming book “Nova Scotia’s Women of Song” – reserve tickets for the in-person event here DAY BY DAY SCHEDULE (See ARTIST BIOS below) Thursday, March 21 5 pm – 6 pm – Staged reading of two new one-acts – “Family Reunion” by Morgan Grant and “The Bartender’s Friend” by Michael Warren – at 3 Fairfield Rd.

Morgan Grant Michael Warren reserve tickets for in-person event here “Family Reunion” – Four siblings reunite in their childhood home for a burial.

Tensions rise as the distance between them becomes apparent, leaving all of them to wonder just how long they can stand each other. “The Bartender’s Friend” – A young bartender stuck at work amidst a treacherous hurricane finds himself an unusual customer; a strange man claiming to be a storm chaser.

As the two men a drink, the unexpected encounter turns to the truth of our own mortality.

Friday, March 22 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – World Premiere of the play “Ashe” by Sue Rose – at 3 Fairfield Rd.

Sue Rose reserve tickets for in-person event here In Ashe, an absurd, fun, thoughtful new play by Sue Rose, a woman finds a ticket that could take her anywhere.

Saturday, March 23 10 am – 12 noon – POSTPONED – contact us for details – “Imagination Station: Making Big Choices in Improv” – workshop for ages 9 – 14 with Hannah Lucas – at 3 Fairfield Rd.

THIS EVENT WILL NOT BE STREAMING Hannah Lucas Telling a story is at the heart of improvised theatre: Big stories, little stories, and every story in between.