There’s Nothing You Can Do explores a group of recently reconnected friends who fall into a collective quarter-life crisis as they come to the realization that their lives aren’t what they imagined they’d be as they turn, or near, 30.

The play re-contextualizes the very real “dancing plague of 1518” as a way to explore this existential-anxiety, and posits that when life doesn’t make sense anymore, all that’s left is to dance.

Originally broadcast on May 1, 2025 on CHMR 93.5 FM in St. John's, and on other great stations across the country. 

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It's a hunt for the Holy Grail taken on by an American Anthropologist and a Newfoundland History professor that unveils hidden secrets within Newfoundland history!

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