Previews from April 17 · Opens April 22
Northgate Ensemble presents · 2026–27 Season
Low Tide at Carrow Point
“Some debts the sea collects in person.”
When a drowned man's boat drifts back into harbor twenty years late, the widow who buried him has one night to decide what she's willing to admit.
Tickets $22–$48 · Student & senior tickets $15 · Sold by Boxline
About the play
Carrow Point, a fishing town on the Maine coast, 1979. Twenty years after the Margaret Ann went down with all hands, her hull drifts back into the harbor on the lowest tide of the year: empty, intact and impossible.
Hester Penhallow buried her husband without a body. Now her son wants answers, the harbormaster wants the boat gone before the reporters arrive, and the town's oldest debts are rising with the water. Over one long night, the people of Carrow Point must decide which stories they can keep telling.
Mara Vell's new play is a ghost story without ghosts: taut, funny in the dark, and haunted by what small places choose to forget.
- Genre
- New drama · Coastal gothic
- Season
- 2026–27 Season
- Producing company
- Northgate Ensemble
- Running time
- About 2 hr 10 min, including one 15-minute interval
- Age guidance
- Ages 14+
- Content advisory
- Contains references to drowning and bereavement, a staged fight, strong language, haze, and a brief strobe effect in Act Two.
Tickets
& dates
- Full price
- $28–$48
- Previews
- $22, all seats
- Discounts
- $15 for students, 65+ and under 25 (ID at the door)
All tickets are sold by Boxline.
Book tickets- Preview
- Early performances before opening; the show may still change. Reduced prices.
- Captioned
- Open captions on a screen beside the stage, visible from every seat.
- Relaxed
- House lights partly up, softened sound and haze, free to move and leave.
- Matinee
- Afternoon performance.
- 17Apr
Sat · 7:30 PM
The Foundry Stage
- 20Apr
Tue · 7:30 PM
The Foundry Stage
- 22Apr
Thu · 7:30 PM
The Foundry Stage
Sold outAsk the box office about returns - 24Apr
Sat · 2:00 PM
The Foundry Stage
- 24Apr
Sat · 7:30 PM
The Foundry Stage
- 28Apr
Wed · 7:30 PM
The Foundry Stage
- 1May
Sat · 2:00 PM
The Foundry Stage
- 7May
Fri · 7:30 PM
The Foundry Stage
- 9May
Sun · 2:00 PM
The Foundry Stage
Venue
The Foundry Stage
214 Mill Street Providence, RI 02903Map & directionsBox office
- Phone
- (401) 555-0147
- Hours
- Tue–Sat, 12–6 PM, and one hour before every performance
Getting here
Bus routes 6 and 92 stop at Mill & Fountain, three minutes' walk. The train station is fifteen minutes on foot.
Parking
Pay parking at the Fountain Street garage, two minutes away. Two accessible spaces outside the venue; reserve through the box office.
Accessibility
- Step-free access from the street to all seats
- Four wheelchair spaces with companion seats
- Accessible all-gender restroom on the ground floor
- Free assistive-listening headsets at the box office
- Captioned: Wed Apr 28 and Sun May 9 · Relaxed: Sat May 1
Questions about access? Call the box office. A person answers.
Cast
10 performers
Margit Sorensen
Hester Penhallow
Arjun Mehta-Clarke
Davy Penhallow
Niamh Delaney
Ros Tregear
Rafael Ortiz
Elias Tregear
Tamsin Okafor
June Abernethy
- Joseph WhitlockCallum Rowe
- Bea HollisMarguerite Lowe
- Desmond AchterbergThe Harbormaster
- Lior Ben-AmiFisherman / Ensemble
- Kezia MumfordNet-mender / Ensemble
Understudies: Ines Calloway (Hester, Marguerite), Theo Brandt (Davy, Callum), Rosa Fenwick (Ros, June). Understudies may perform at any performance; changes are posted at the venue on the day.
Creative
team
- Playwright
- Mara Vell
- Director
- Tomás Iriarte
- Set & Costume Design
- Hana Okabe
- Lighting Design
- Felix Marr
- Movement Director
- Siobhan Quill
- Stage Manager
- Ruth Ellery
Gallery
Produced by
Northgate Ensemble
Northgate Ensemble is a ten-member company making new plays about work, weather and the places people refuse to leave. It produces three to four shows a season from its home at The Foundry Stage in Providence.
Visit northgateensemble.exampleLow Tide at Carrow Point is supported in part by the Narragansett Arts Fund and the members of the Northgate Circle.