Persistence Theatre
  • Home
  • The Armine Nutting Gosling Statue in Bannerman Park
  • About Us
    • About
    • Staff & Governance >
      • Board Bios
    • In The News
  • Donate
    • Join the Ceiling Breakers Circle
    • Donate to PerSIStence
    • Persistence Supporters
  • Past Projects
    • 2017-2018 >
      • Isle of Demons (Sept 2017)
      • Pink Tie Gala (2017)
      • Offensive to Some (Dec 2017)
      • Women Playing Hamlet (Feb 2018)
      • Isle of Demons (April 2018)
      • Play Workshops
    • 2018-2019 >
      • Pink Tie Gala (2018)
      • Original (Nov 2018)
      • Offensive to Some (Jan 2019)
    • 2019-2020 >
      • The Abortion Monologues (2019)
      • Pink Tie Gala (2019)
      • The Haunting of Margaret Duley >
        • Teacher's Guide
        • Workshops with Edward Daranyi
      • Working with Respect Conference
    • 2020-2021 >
      • Original (2021) >
        • Programme
      • Offensive to Some (2021) >
        • Programme
      • What Hangs in the Balance (2021)
      • I AM A GENIUS DOES ANYONE HERE KNOW ME? (2021)
    • 2021-2022 >
      • Votes for Women 100
      • Pink Tie Gala (2021)
    • 2022-2023 >
      • The Abortion Monologues (2022)
      • 2022 Pink Tie Gala
    • 2023-2024 >
      • Stolen Sisters
      • Rainbow Tie Gala
      • Precariously Placed: Pandemic Monologues from the Edge
    • 2024-2025 >
      • Today I...
      • Year of the Arts Women's Play Festival >
        • Reviews & Recaps
        • Opening Night
        • Night Two
        • Night Three
        • Night Four
        • Night Five
        • Night Six
        • Night Seven
        • Night Eight
        • Night Nine
        • Night Ten
        • Night Eleven
        • Closing Night
      • Goodbye Glass Ceiling - An Election Night Celebration
      • 8th Annual Pink Tie Gala >
        • Pink Tie Gala Programme
    • 2025-2026 >
      • Raise Her Up - The Gosling Statue >
        • Raise Her Up: June 18
        • Project Newsletter Apr 2024
        • Armine Nutting Gosling Statue project updates
        • Donate to #RaiseHerUp
        • Purchase Statue Miniature
  • Blog
  • Contact & Location
Picture
Canada’s PerSIStence Theatre presents Sharon King-Campbell’s acclaimed one-woman show ORIGINAL, part of this renowned feminist company’s broadcast series IT’S WOMEN’S PLAY.

Filmed before a live audience on the COVID-free island of Newfoundland, King-Campbell show “dazzles as it delves into truth and myth” by exploring what being a woman means and has meant throughout Western Civilization, from creation to right now.  



PerSIStence Theatre is delighted to premiere the worldwide broadcast of this acclaimed production
February 24 at 7 PM EST / 4 PM PST / 8:30 PM NST
and on demand February 25-March 3.
Tickets are $15 USD - available from Events.BroadwayWorld.com.
Picture
PURCHASE TICKETS
Canada’s PerSIStence Theatre Company presents ORIGINAL, written and performed by SHARON KING-CAMPBELL.

Part of this feminist theatre company’s one-woman play series IT’S WOMEN’S PLAY, ORIGINAL explores what being a woman means and has meant throughout Western Civilization, from creation to right now.

Actor King-Campbell plays the three “original women” -- Eve, Embla, and Pandora – who continue to wander the earth long after their stories were first told.

“"Sharon King-Campbell’s one-woman show dazzles as it delves into truth and myth." - The Telegram (St. John’s)

Audiences Say:

“A powerful story about how there’s always more to any story, especially the stories we think we know as cultural touchstones, origins.”

“Empowering, enraging, badass, epic – and succinct and direct and unapologetic.”

“What a marvellous show... brilliant everything!”
​

“I feel like I’ll be digesting it for weeks! So much knowledge and wisdom and truth.”
Picture

Production Community

 Written by & starring Sharon King-Campbell
Directed by Bernardine Ann Teraz Stapleton
​Production design by Diana Daly
Production management by Mara Bredovskis
Stage management by Jaimie Tait
Wardrobe by Melanie Ozon
Sound design by Kat Burke
Produced by Jenn Deon
Associate Producer Erika Squires
Outreach Coordinator Tiffany Martin
Production Assistant Gao Huiyan 
Picture
Mara Bredovskis - Production Management

​Mara can often be found hiding in booths and backstages around town. She has worked as a production manager and stage manager (thankfully rarely at the same time) for companies such as Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, PerSIStence Theatre Company, Opera on the Avalon, Perchance Theatre, Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre, White Rooster Theatre, Wonderbolt Circus, Theatre St.John's, and many others.

Picture
Kathryn Burke - Sound Design

Kathryn is an actor, musician, producer, and sound designer based out of St. John’s. She has co-produced a provincial tour of skc originals' Give Me Back, and also sits on the board of Shakespeare by the Sea Festival, and V-Day St. John’s - which produces the Vagina Monologues annually.

​Sound design credits: The Tempest (SBTS), A Nice Family Christmas, Wit, The Maltese Bodkin (SJP), Noises Off, CLUE On Stage (Nothing on Productions), Original (PerSIStence Theatre Company), The Cut of It (White Rooster), and Puffs (Best Kind Productions).

Picture
Diana Daly - Production Design
​

Diana is a multi-instrumentalist, performer, printmaker, storyteller and songwriter with a history as a production/stage manager and lighting designer. Diana is originally from St. John's and has spent the last ten + years living and working in BC, Montreal and Nunavik. Favourite projects that she has created include: The Fogo Island Song Share; the Lhasa de Sela Youth Stage for the Montreal Folk Festival; her EP When Women Kill; being the "Femme d'Orchestre" for the puppet show Kate Crackerberry;  and all of the musical experiences with her students in Puvirnituq and Kangirsuk. Diana is one of three members of the Daly Family Collective with Louise Moyes and Anne Troake and together they have made the multi disciplinary stage show If A Place Could Be Made. 

Picture
Jenn Deon - Producing Artistic Director

​Jenn is a freelance theatre artist who has worked in St. John’s since the early 90’s. With PerSIStence, she has directed Robert Chafe's Isle of Demons (2017) and Berni Stapleton's The Haunting of Margaret Duley (2019). As artistic director with the Shakespeare by the Sea Festival from 1995-2015, she directed many of its productions over the years, including a female-driven production of The Taming of the Shrew (2014) and an all-female production of Much Ado About Nothing (2008).  In 2013, Jenn was a recipient of a Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal for her community involvement, and in 2018, the Woman of Distinction Award for Arts & Culture from the YWCA St. John's. She is a founder of and the producing artistic director with PerSIStence Theatre. Jenn is also a CHRC-trained facilitator of Respectful Workplace workshops for arts and non-profit organizations. More at jenndeon.ca.   

Gao Huiyan - Production Assistant
Picture

Huiyan holds a bachelor of arts in English, a masters of arts in Culture and Difference and a masters of Education from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Although this is her first job in the theatre industry, she is passionate about feminism and gender relations and so excited to be a part of the PerSIStence team!

Picture
Sharon King-Campbell - Performer / Playwright

Sharon King-Campbell is a playwright, actor, storyteller and director based in St. John's, NL. Her plays, Fighting Fire with Snow (World's End Theatre Company) and Give Me Back (skc originals/For the Love of Learning), both enjoyed multiple remounts, and Give Me Back toured Newfoundland and Labrador in partnership with the Arts & Culture Centres.

​Sharon was the 2017 recipient of the Rhonda Payne Award, and her script, Dayboil, won the Arts & Letters in 2020. She is delighted to be working with PerSIStence again on Original. More at sharonkingcampbell.com.

Tiffany Martin - Outreach Coordinator
Picture

​Tiffany Martin has over twenty years of experience in arts administration and a lifetime of love and commitment to the St. John's arts community. She has worked for RCA, NIFCO, Pope Productions, Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland, and the St. John's International Women's Film Festival just to name a few. Tiffany is one of the most loyal, caring, and supportive co-workers anyone could ask for. She is tickled pink to be able to combine her love for the arts with her beliefs in social justice with Persistence Theatre Company!

Erika Squires - Associate Producer
Picture

​Erika Squires is a multi-faceted theatre artist from St. John’s Newfoundland. She is a student at Memorial University of Newfoundland studying English with a specialization in Theatre and Drama and she is a teaching assistant and student for the diploma in Film and Stage Technique. Erika is an acting and piano teacher at Courtney Fowler Performance Academy and she is the co-Artistic Director of the new 2SLGBTQIA+ theatre group, GroupHug Productions. She is so excited to be a part of the PerSIStence community!

Picture
Bernardine Ann Teraz Stapleton - Director

Berni Stapleton is a Newfoundland- Labrador writer and performer of unique distinction. She is the co-founder and co-artistic director of the newly founded Kitchen Party Theatre Festival, launching digitally this year, hard launch in 2021!

She was writer in residence at Memorial University of Newfoundland-Labrador in 2019. Her play The Pope and Princess Di was just listed on the Playwrights Guild of Canada Sure Fire List of top 23 plays from female playwrights in Canada. She is the recipient of the 2018 Arts and Letters best dramatic script for her one woman play Dolly. Her newest book for young Selkies and other creatures is called: Girly Muckle and the Queer Hands.She is one of the featured performers in the acclaimed Artistic Fraud production of Between Breaths. 

Last year her plays professionally produced included: The Double Axe Murders, A Tidy Package, Offensive to Some, The Haunting of Margaret Duley, and, the hit musical chomping at the bit to tour the country: No Change in the Weather. 

She was recently nominated for Arts NL artist of the year. She also launched a blog series championing body image acceptance and produced a one woman show of her own called “A Broad’s Perspective” in which fairy tale tropes were dismantled and rewritten to reflect a more accurate view point. 

She is a recipient of The Rhonda Payne award from Arts NL. She is a past recipient of the WANL award for best work in non-fiction for her contribution to the book They Let Down Baskets. Her short stories and essays have appeared in Riddle Fence and The Newfoundland Quarterly. She is a recipient of the Ambassador of Tourism award from Hospitality NL. Berni was the Artistic Director of the Grand Bank Regional Theatre Festival for 11 years. 

​She has been a playwright-in- residence with the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights’ Workshop Montreal, Alberta Theatre Projects, CanStage, PARC, and other national companies. Her plays are regularly produced nationally and internationally. They include Offensive To Some, Brazil Square, and Our Frances. Berni’s other books include This is the Cat, Rants, Riffs and Roars and her memoir Love, Life. 

Berni was the originating director and dramaturge for, and helped devise transVersing with For The Love of Learning, and Artistic Fraud. Find out more by checking out www.bernistapleton.com.

Picture
Jaimie Tait - Stage Manager
​

Jaimie is very happy to be back working with Persistence Theatre this season. Originally from Vancouver BC, Jaimie moved to Newfoundland six years ago and is now proud to call St. John’s her home. Most recently Jaimie stage managed The Father for 30 for 60/Mindless Theatrics. Next year Jaimie will be hitting the road again with No Change in the Weather for Terra Bruce Productions. 

Favourite past credits include: Tosca for Opera on the Avalon, Offensive to Some for Persistence Theatre, Betroffenheit with Kidd Pivot, Chelsea Hotel: The Songs of Leonard Cohen for The Firehall Arts Centre, and All The Way Home for The Electric Company. Jaimie is a graduate of Studio 58.


Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

St. John’s is home to a rich, diverse, and vibrant urban Indigenous community. Located on the ancestral and unceded territory of the Beothuk, the lands and waters in and around the City have traditionally served as a gathering place for the Mi’kmaq. The broader region of Newfoundland and Labrador continues to be home to diverse Indigenous Peoples, including First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. We honour and pay respect to the past, present, and future caretakers of these territories.

We also must acknowledge the labour theft extracted from people of African descent, used to build European wealth and economies globally, and in the Canadian nation state, including Newfoundland and Labrador’s shipbuilding and cod fishery industries, through the violence of trans-Atlantic enslavement.

We thank both First Light and the office of the Vice-Provost of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Anti-Racism at Memorial University for crafting and sharing these words that provide us with important perspectives.

Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture

Subscribe to our Newsletter
Picture
  • Home
  • The Armine Nutting Gosling Statue in Bannerman Park
  • About Us
    • About
    • Staff & Governance >
      • Board Bios
    • In The News
  • Donate
    • Join the Ceiling Breakers Circle
    • Donate to PerSIStence
    • Persistence Supporters
  • Past Projects
    • 2017-2018 >
      • Isle of Demons (Sept 2017)
      • Pink Tie Gala (2017)
      • Offensive to Some (Dec 2017)
      • Women Playing Hamlet (Feb 2018)
      • Isle of Demons (April 2018)
      • Play Workshops
    • 2018-2019 >
      • Pink Tie Gala (2018)
      • Original (Nov 2018)
      • Offensive to Some (Jan 2019)
    • 2019-2020 >
      • The Abortion Monologues (2019)
      • Pink Tie Gala (2019)
      • The Haunting of Margaret Duley >
        • Teacher's Guide
        • Workshops with Edward Daranyi
      • Working with Respect Conference
    • 2020-2021 >
      • Original (2021) >
        • Programme
      • Offensive to Some (2021) >
        • Programme
      • What Hangs in the Balance (2021)
      • I AM A GENIUS DOES ANYONE HERE KNOW ME? (2021)
    • 2021-2022 >
      • Votes for Women 100
      • Pink Tie Gala (2021)
    • 2022-2023 >
      • The Abortion Monologues (2022)
      • 2022 Pink Tie Gala
    • 2023-2024 >
      • Stolen Sisters
      • Rainbow Tie Gala
      • Precariously Placed: Pandemic Monologues from the Edge
    • 2024-2025 >
      • Today I...
      • Year of the Arts Women's Play Festival >
        • Reviews & Recaps
        • Opening Night
        • Night Two
        • Night Three
        • Night Four
        • Night Five
        • Night Six
        • Night Seven
        • Night Eight
        • Night Nine
        • Night Ten
        • Night Eleven
        • Closing Night
      • Goodbye Glass Ceiling - An Election Night Celebration
      • 8th Annual Pink Tie Gala >
        • Pink Tie Gala Programme
    • 2025-2026 >
      • Raise Her Up - The Gosling Statue >
        • Raise Her Up: June 18
        • Project Newsletter Apr 2024
        • Armine Nutting Gosling Statue project updates
        • Donate to #RaiseHerUp
        • Purchase Statue Miniature
  • Blog
  • Contact & Location