An Audience of Chairs is a 2018 Canadian drama film directed by Deanne Foley and written by Rosemary House.

Set in 1997, in Tors Cove, Newfoundland, Maura Mackenzie and her two daughters, Bonnie and Brianna Fraser, arrive at their summer home for a two-week vacation.

Maura's husband, and the girls’ father, Duncan Fraser, is an ambitious reporter travelling through Russia on a political scoop.

This causes her to fall into a depression, pounding on the piano at night, and sleeping throughout the day leaving her children unattended.

Maura's father Ian, who lives nearby, begins to suspect that she may be exhibiting signs of bipolar disorder.

Maura becomes isolated and violent and refuses to take any medication after being diagnosed with bipolar II disorder by a doctor.

However, during a walk in the woods, she twists her ankle and misses the visitation, prompting Duncan to ask for a divorce and full custody of the children.

This sends Maura into despair and she travels to the coast with a plan to drown herself in the same wharf where she claims her mother committed suicide.

The end of the film shows both adult Bonnie and Brianna, arriving at the Tors Cove home, to be with their mother.