Jamie and his fiancee Bev are doing just fine in their basement apartment in Chapel Arm, Newfoundland. Bev works as a beautician, Jamie has a job as a Òdick-pickerÓ at the local fish plantÑand the young couple are expecting a baby.
But when JamieÕs childhood sweetheart, Dodi, returns unexpectedly from the mainland, their small-town world is rocked. Complicating matters is DodiÕs alcoholic uncle Art, who has just torched the house heÕs been living inÑand everyone in town knows he did it.
The characters navigate their way through a minefield of love, obsession, sex, loyalty, and betrayal as they seek to reconcile the past with their present reality. The raw emotion of Chapel Arm is balanced with a full measure of Newfoundland humour, and a powerful sense of language.

Step Taylor is a twenty-four-year-old playwright, poet and novice screenwriter currently enrolled in the University of British ColumbiaÕs Optional Residency Creative Writing MFA Program. Taylor spent his childhood in the titular village of Chapel Arm, Newfoundland but has been based out of Fredericton, New Brunswick since 1999.In addition to acting in St. ThomasÕ Black Box Theatre, Taylor quickly began writing play scripts to workshop and mount in the space. His original one-acts Ask Kathy WhoÕs Pathetic (2005), Weird and Picky (2006) and I Unclick (2007) received readings at the annual Ò78Ó public workshop. Taylor won the Notable Acts Summer Theatre FestivalÕs ÒTaking it to the StreetÓ Playwriting Contest on three consecutive occasions with The Father and Floozy Fiasco (2004), Shoes That ArenÕt Red (2005) and Stap My Vitals (2006) all receiving performances. Chapel Arm was also staged by the company in the Black Box Theatre, August 2008.Step is currently developing a new play, Fuzzy Waters, the story of a cell phone sales consultant who considers becoming a serial killer.

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