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Award winning Tempting Providence to grace Theatre Orangeville stage February 23 to March 11, 2012
Tempting Providence has played to more than 70,000 people in more than 460 performances worldwide! Join the growing list of patrons who have been "wowed" by this beautifully crafted Theatre Newfoundland Labrador production!
WINNER - Capital Critics Award for Best Professional Theatre Production 2008-09!
"There are some stories that tell themselves. Stories, like this one, are legends long before they hit the stage. It is a unique pleasure to tackle a subject like Myra Bennett - a resourceful and brave woman who, while she was 'from away', signifies everything we are brought up to believe a Newfoundland woman should be. Myra's re-creation by Robert Chafe brings a depth to her character that suggests her intelligence and fearlessness was part of a more complex person -- one who experienced loneliness, alienation and homesickness. Her struggles make her wit and courage all the more human and all the more triumphant. Robert, the cast and I owe a great debt to Myra Bennett, her husband Angus and all of the wonderful people who inhabit her journals and diaries." -- Jillian Kelley, Director.
Nurse Myra Bennett - The Florence Nightingale of Northern Newfoundland!
Myra Bennett trained as a nurse at Woolwich and completed a course in midwifery at Clapham School of Midwifery. She came to Newfoundland as a district nurse under the outport nursing scheme. Her plan was to travel to Saskatchewan, but when she was made aware of the dire need for nurses in Newfoundland she changed her plans and agreed to go to Daniel's Harbour in May 1921. So began her long career of caring for the sick on the west coast of Newfoundland.
The house that she lived in at Daniel's Harbour is now a heritage site. Visitors to the Bennett House experience a view into the world of health care in the early years of the 20th century.
To purchase tickets:
Call the Theatre Orangeville Box Office 519-942-3423 or 1-800-424-1295 or order on-line.
2012-01-16
Orangeville: Theatre Newfoundland Labrador presents “Tempting Providence” at Theatre Orangeville