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Robert Chafe - Thought #5 - Being a Rule Follower

I'm walking around the lake and there's a guy riding his bike on the walking trail and following him is his dog off leash and suddenly I'm filled with such, like, intense annoyance. And in that moment, I realize that I'm inherently in my life a really strict follower of rules. And then I start to w…

Robert Chafe - Thought #4 - Something's Gotta Give

Today Greta Thunberg departs on a two-week journey across the Atlantic in a zero emissions yacht to attend a climate conference. Today I head to my office to work on more details of sending 10-12 people on a six-month tour across Canada via car, plane, bus. Something's gotta give

Robert Chafe - Thought #3 - Skateboarders and Failure

So I was sitting in the park yesterday and watching some skateboarders and kind of marvelling at the inherent engagement with failure that comes with skateboarding. It's really admirable. They – usually a bunch of guys – they usually get together, and fail, try things that they know are beyond thei…

Robert Chafe - Thought #2 - Get Over Yourself

My name is Robert Chafe, and this is my thought residency, day 2. So, I composed a rather eloquent thing detailing a conversation I had with a friend of mine about the very fuzzy line between confidence and arrogance and how I sometimes trip on that line and don't quite know how to proceed. And ju…

Robert Chafe - Thought #1 - The Pressure to Be Poignant

So as with all things with regards to my career, I'm going back to basic principles with this thought residency and rooting it in honesty. And my first thought rooted in honesty is that this thought residency is stressing me out. Because I feel the weight and need to be poignant and smart. And I do…

Interviewing ROBERT CHAFE of BETWEEN BREATHS! | The Write Project

Robert Chafe is a writer, educator, actor and arts administrator based in St. John’s, Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland). He has worked in theatre, dance, opera, radio, fiction and film. His stage plays have been seen in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and in the United States, and include Oil and Water…

Home Alone, or Christmas with the Kranks? Toffifee or Terry's? One local man's Christmas Facebook polls are getting popular

Do you have a favourite Christmas movie? What about a song? Or a Christmas treat? These are the sorts of questions award winning playwright Robert Chafe presents to his Facebook followers, and he joined us in studio this morning to explain.

Robert Chafe

The playwright Robert Chafe discusses his play Between Breaths, inspired by the life and death of Dr. Jon Lien, who devoted his career to saving over five hundred whales off the coast of Newfoundland, which plays at the Firehall Arts Centre (until 23 November 2025), with Joseph Planta. Tex…

Does this province have a handle on the invasive green crab? + There's a new children's book about the 'Whale Man' Jon Lien

DFO senior biologist Lynn Lush on how Nfld is tackling green crab since 2007 + Robert Chafe is the author of a new children's book called 'Whale Man' about whale rescuer Jon Lien.