Theatre is a collaborative art — sometimes incredibly so.

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My guests today are all involved in this year’s Notable Acts Theatre Festival. Gillian Salmon is the playwright and plays the Narrator for 32 Short Plays About Fredericton. Naomi McGowan is the director for 32 Short Plays About Fredericton. Brandon Hicks is the playwright for Sinking (as well as another play in the festival, Don’t Shoot Your Mother). Pluto Shaw and Mimi Martin are Stage Managers and Designers for each of these plays.

They join me to give a glimpse into the challenges and opportunities in staging two very different plays back to back, as well as the creative process of writing these plays.

The Notable Acts Theatre Festival runs July 24 through August 3. Both Sinking and 32 Short Plays About Fredericton are part of the Acting Out series, which runs nightly at 7:30 pm at Memorial Hall at UNB, from July 30 through August 1. A post-show reception will follow the performance on August 1 at The Grad House at UNB, and a post-show talkback conversation with the playwrights, actors and directors will take place after the performance on July 31.