About the Play:

Finalist for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for drama (Canadian equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize)

Everybody Just C@lm the F#ck Down is a full-length comedic drama by Robert Chafe. Frenetic, tender, and sometimes scary, Everybody Just C@lm the F#ck Down is a stumbling folly about the aging body, mid-life anxiety, and what it means to live when you can't know what's next.

Everybody Just C@lm the F#ck Down is the one-man about anxiety, mortality, creativity, and control. After an unexpected night in a Regina hospital emergency room, Robert Chafe can't shake the burning question of whether he's Tennessee Williams or Dorothy Zbornak. Are his symptoms a harbinger of a terrifying undiagnosed condition, or is it all just in his head? Everybody Just C@lm the F#ck Down explores unanswered, or perhaps unanswerable, questions relating to mortality, fear, illness, health, loss and existence.

Everybody Just C@lm the F#ck Down premiered in 2021 at the historic LSPU Hall (so named as it was formerly owned by the Longshoremen's Protective Union) in the heart of downtown St. John's, Newfoundland.

Cast: 1 male

What people say:

"A note perfect piece of pure pleasure." — Vancouver Sun

"An ingenious and delightful theatrical tour de force." — The Telegram

About the Playwright:

Robert Chafe is a Canadian playwright and actor who 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. He has been shortlisted twice for the Governor General's Literary Award for Drama and he won the award for Afterimage in 2010. He has been guest instructor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, and The National Theatre School of Canada. In 2018 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Memorial University of Newfoundland. He is currently Playwright in Residence and director of Artistic Fraud Theater in St. John's Newfoundland.