June 28 to September 23, 2017
2017
LIVE. ORIGINAL. CANADIAN. THEATRE.
There’s fanfare and fireworks all over the country this year, announcing coast to coast to coast: Canada’s sesquicentennial. From free admission to our National Parks, to public concerts in our town squares, to cookouts and promenades, the whole country is being drawn into the celebration. Funny to think though, as this Confederation era comic points to, just how far we’ve come from where we think we started. In 1867, it was really only Upper and Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick who joined. And in spite of the negotiations taking place in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island wouldn’t join for another six years! Alberta and Saskatchewan didn’t join until 1905. Newfoundland, not until 1949. Nunavut was only finally distinguished in 1999. And, lest we forget, long before 1867, the banks of the Red River had already been fruitfully farmed for thousands of years, the Atlantic harbours had long been engines of traditional fisheries, and Toronto had already been a thriving home to many communities for some 15,000 years. If Confederation were a toddling baby today, chances are it wouldn’t recognize its parents. Maybe the fact that so much has changed in Canada over the last 150 years is the greatest proof that we’re starting to grow up a little. So come to Blyth and celebrate the next 150 years of complicated steps…who can say where the journey will take us? And… auspiciously enough… 2017 is also the Village of Blyth’s 140th. With 140 events happening all over town. From community suppers to street fairs, step dance contests to jamborees, the whole village of Blyth is throwing open its doors!
Gil Garratt Artistic Director There’s nothing quite like that drive home after the show: you’ve just taken in a thrilling, hilarious, moving, affecting night at the theatre. The stars coming out over the cornfields. Palpable. You can still feel it. You can still see the show in your mind. You’re still laughing, still thinking, still feeling the echo of the magic of live theatre ringing off that stage. It’s a singular sensation, an energy that stays with you, from when you first take your seat in the hall until that moment when the actors bow and you rise to your feet. That sensation, the live experience, stays with you. And it rises again when you join with your family, your friends, your colleagues, your lovers, your partners in life, your partner in crime, your one and only, or your party of one, in remembering that laughter, retelling that part of the story, repeating the line that struck you so… sharing those reverberations together. At its heart, Blyth Festival was built for this one reason: to bring people together. Photo by Shawn Loughlin, The Citizen.
So, gather your people, book your dates, and come back to Blyth: Canada’s hometown. Always Relevant. Always Real. This is Blyth. 2015-2017 Season Sponsors
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Cover image: Top photo by Mr. T.B. McArter, June 10, 1903. Bottom photo by Terry Manzo, September 2, 2016. Creative by Terry Manzo.
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Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians blazed a path from Huron County to the Big Apple, the likes of which has never been seen, before or since.
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World Premiere June 28 to August 19 Written by David Scott Directed by Gil Garratt
MR. NEW YEAR’S EVE: A night with Guy Lombardo
For forty-eight consecutive years Guy Lombardo was North America’s “Mr. New Year’s Eve,” bandleader of the biggest holiday broadcast on the continent. Together with his band “The Royal Canadians,” Lombardo sold more than 300 million records internationally. To this day, they still play his recording of Auld Lang Syne as the official ball drops on the annual festivities in New York’s Times Square. A son of Italian immigrants, Guy was born and raised in London, Ontario, but it was his summers, playing the biggest beach bandstand in Huron County’s Grand Bend, where this local musical titan cut his teeth and learned to play both his many instruments and the teeming crowds. Though his own father adamantly opposed Guy’s love of Jazz, and Canadian radio stations showed active disinterest, Guy’s dedication to his craft was all consuming, and no obstacle could block his path to his dreams. Friend and influential colleague of some of the biggest names in show biz, including Louis Armstrong, Sophie Tucker, the Andrews Sisters, Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, and others, Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians blazed a path from Huron County to the Big Apple, the likes of which has never been seen, before or since. Production Sponsor
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A slap down, drag 'em out cultural appropriation comedy of the highest (and lowest) order.
July 5 to August 19 Written by Drew Hayden Taylor Directed by Brad Fraser
#bfBerlin Trailer: “Do
you know anything about buffalo?” Donalda: “They have great wings.”
THE BERLIN BLUES Two German developers arrive unannounced on the sleepy, fictional Otter Lake reserve. They have with them international investors, $164 million dollars, and blueprints for a “Native Theme Park”, complete with bumper canoes, an international longhouse of pancakes, and a giant laser dream catcher. What ensues is a hilarious, laugh-a-minute riot, as some members of the community try to shut down the development, while others leap in with both feet.
Drew Hayden Taylor
Full of absurd gags and indelible, larger-than-life characters, The Berlin Blues is a slap down, drag’em out cultural appropriation comedy of the highest (and lowest) order. Brad Fraser
“Masterfully done” Alan Filewood Media Sponsor
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A country parable for our times, reminding us that what takes flight, always comes home to roost.
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World Premiere August 9 to September 23 Written by The Company Directed by Severn Thompson
THE PIGEON KING
When Arlan Galbraith created his company, Pigeon King International, he boasted some fifty-years as a top breeder; he was a prominent member of the Canadian Racing Pigeon Union, the Canadian National Tippler Union, the National Birmingham Roller Club, and even the charter President of the Saugeen Valley Fur and Feathers Fanciers Association. When he announced he’d even bred his own distinct prize-winning line of racers, Strathclyde Genetics, few of his friends doubted his downy coronation.
Rebecca Auerbach
But around 2001, Galbraith began approaching local farmers and neighbours asking them to invest in a piece of the royal action. Claiming to have access to lucrative pigeon racing markets in Saudi Arabia and throughout the Middle East, the Pigeon King began to sign ten-year contracts with guaranteed profits for buyers of his breeding pairs, promising to personally buy back all of the chicks. Over the next seven years, Pigeon King International became a massive empire, worth tens of millions of dollars, with farmers investing from both sides of the border, mortgaging century farms, and hatching hundreds of thousands of birds, only to collapse in a bankruptcy filing of epic proportions. Finally convicted of fraud in a Waterloo Court, Arlan Galbraith was sentenced to seven years for his preposterous Pigeon Ponzi scheme. The Pigeon King is a country parable for our times, reminding us that what takes flight always comes home to roost. Co-sponsored by
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A play about the ever difficult path to change, the need for wholeness in healing, and a complex country's hunger for hope.
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World Premiere August 16 to September 16 Written by Falen Johnson & Jessica Carmichael Directed by Jessica Carmichael
IPPERWASH
“The Great Spirit made all things. He supplied these grounds with game, and gave them to his red children; and he gave them strength and courage to defend them.” -Tecumseh The history of the Kettle and Stony Point people goes back to time immemorial. The land along the shores of Lake Huron is home to hundreds of traditional medicines, as well ceremonial spaces, and burial grounds. After the war of 1812 the Chippewa’s of Kettle and Stony Point were granted, by the crown, lands along Lake Huron for their service. By 1929 much of the beachfront property of Kettle and Stony Point was sold by the Indian Agent without permission from the community.
Falen Johnson
In 1942, under the War Measures Act, the Department of National Defence expropriated 2400 acres of the Stony Point people’s territory. Families were moved to nearby Kettle Point. This move allowed for the creation of Camp Ipperwash, a training base for Canadian soldiers that was promised to return to the people of Stony Point after World War II. It took over 70 years for that promise to be fulfilled. Jessica Carmichael
Now that the land has been returned, the process of decontamination and healing has begun. Co-written by Falen Johnson (Mohawk/Tuscarora) and Jessica Carmichael (Abenaki), Ipperwash tells the story of resistance, resilience, and reclamation. Media Sponsor
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Phillips Studio August 9 to 13
H COM IT EDY!
Mulgrave Road Theatre presents
Phillips Studio September 12 to 16
WATCHING THE DOWNS GLORY DIE
Primordial Soup Theatre Company presents
Written and Performed by Sheryl Scott Directed by Desiree Baker
Come spend some time with Millie Johnson as she spins tales about life on the farm in 1950s Northern New Brunswick, Photo of Sheryl Scott by Debra Chantler when working hard had a whole different meaning and homemade bread was served at every meal. Millie teaches us lessons in acceptance, love, and the importance of being able to use a rifle! The story of raising five girls on a New Brunswick farm will leave you inspired, touched, and wondering when you can return for a cup of tea at Millie’s table. The Downs is a one-woman show written and performed by local artist, Sheryl Scott, directed by Desiree Baker and produced by Debra Chantler. The Downs received The People’s Choice Award and Sheryl Scott won the Outstanding Actress Award at the London One Act Festival in 2013. The show also took the Producer’s Pick Award for the 2015 London Fringe Festival. “Scott’s performance is a tour de force, among the best I’ve ever seen at London Fringe. Millie will make you laugh. Millie will make you feel happy to be alive. Millie will warm your very soul and make you cry with joy.” Joe Belanger, London Free Press
Written by Judith Thompson Directed by Emmy Alcorn Starring Stephanie MacDonald
Stephanie MacDonald
Judith Thompson
Watching Glory Die, by critically acclaimed and award-winning Canadian playwright Judith Thompson, is a riveting journey of three women bound together in impossible circumstances. Glory is a 19-year- old prison inmate whose defiant nature leads to an everspiraling clash with Corrections Canada. What can her mother do? What is the responsibility of her guard? Inspired by the real-life case of Ashley Smith, who was initially incarcerated at age 15 for throwing crabapples, Watching Glory Die takes a bold dramatic leap from the news headlines to forge the kind of visceral lyricism that is the hallmark of Judith Thompson at her most powerful. Watching Glory Die won a 2016 Robert Merritt Award (Nova Scotia): Stephanie MacDonald for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (female) and received nominations for Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Lighting Design.
Blyth Festival Young Company For the 2017 season, the Blyth Festival Young Company is creating Sallows to Selfies. A hundred years ago, Reuben R. Sallows, a Huron County photographer, shot hundreds of now iconic photographs of life as it was lived in his era in this part of the world. Sallows shot everything from images of Goderich harbour, to sweeping landscapes, to farmers working their fields, to portraits of everyday local people living their everyday local lives. With a clear preference for what would come to be known as field-photography, Sallows also shot several self-portraits, often standing among friends. Today’s generation of young people have come of age in an era where not only is photography a ubiquitous part of daily life, but nearly every single phone they have ever interacted with has a mega-pixelated iris for a digital camera and images of themselves are conveyed across the globe with a swipe of their finger. For young people living in Huron County today, posting images of themselves on platforms like Snapchat, Foursquare, Facebook, and Twitter have become a central part of how they define and express who they are to the world around them, and how the world around them comes to understand who they are. Sallows to Selfies is an exploration, by our own local young people, of the power, the playfulness, and the preciousness of self-portraits in the age of Instagram. Young Company Sponsored by
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“Boy with a Banana,” 1899, by Reuben R. Sallows. The Reuben R. Sallows Digital Library.
2017 Calendar
The Blyth Festival is housed in the historic Blyth Memorial Community Hall, 431 Queen Street in the rural village of Blyth. Directions: Located on Huron County Road 4, south of Hwy 86, north of Hwy 8. Parking: Free on all side streets and in the town parking lot across from the theatre.
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Bonanza Weekend - AUG 18-20 Purchase a Bonanza Pass and see four plays in three days. A Blyth Festival tradition! Opening Night Gala Dinner June 30 | 5:45pm | $40 Begin the season in style at our Gala Opening Night Dinner in the newly renovated Lower Hall. CKNX Night - June 28 | $9.20 Join our friends at CKNX Radio for the first preview of the season! Proceeds to benefit the Actors’ Fund of Canada. Country Suppers | $19 Home-cooked meals served at local venues selected Friday and Saturday evenings. Blyth Spirit Members at the $100+ level are invited to join Artistic Director Gil Garratt and company members at a pre-show reception in the Lower Hall. RSVP required. Talk Back Join cast members after the 2pm performance for an informal talk in the Lower Hall.
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Passes PASSES ON SALE UNTIL APRIL 30 Purchase now and save up to 27%! Passes are redeemable for mainstage productions until September 23. Special Events, Young Company, and Phillips Studio productions do not apply.
Adventure Pass $130 Preferred $115 Regular
Our full season pass is the best deal. One ticket to each mainstage production. Four tickets total.
Flex Pass $135 Preferred $120 Regular $50 Youth
This pass fits in with your busy summer schedule. Redeem for mainstage productions in any combination. Four tickets total.
Bonanza Pass (August 18-20) $115
See four plays in three days. A Blyth Festival tradition! Four tickets total.
2018 Passes on sale as of August 18, 2017!
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Support us: Become a Member At Blyth we truly believe that this theatre belongs to YOU, our Members. By becoming a member, you are asserting that you believe in the dream of the Blyth Centre for the Arts. You believe we can, together, create a theatre that is relevant, engaging, entertaining, authentic, and one that singularly gives voice to region, and our country. Memberships with Blyth start at $40 and come with an attractive list of benefits, depending upon the level at which you give. For membership information please contact the Box Office at 1.877.862.5984 or email info@blythfestival.com.
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Since 1975, the Blyth Festival’s mission has been “to give voice to the region and the country.” We have accomplished this by passionately pursuing the best in local stories, legendary stories, important, problematic, and inspiring stories. The work we do is of national importance, and we continue to be a beacon of best practice in play development coast to coast. We support new and experienced playwrights by offering not only financial support, but workshop space, staff, time and expertise to help get stories that should be told, onto our stages, and to stages across the country. We continue to tell the stories of this very place, to put this very region, and its very real lives on stage. To remain a dynamic force that contributes to the cultural fabric of this country we need your help. The Blyth Festival is a not-for-profit charitable organization. We wouldn’t be here without you and all the artists who have tirelessly worked to bring some of Canada’s most intriguing characters and history to life. To learn more visit blythfestival.com or call 1.877.862.5984 Sponsored by
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Gil Garratt and Paul Thompson, The Last Donnelly Standing, 2016. Photo by Lyon Smith.
CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP If your business or organization would like to be involved with Blyth Festival, consider one of our sponsorship programs. We have a program to suit any size business. Experience the benefits of an arts partnership in your community. For more details contact: Jennifer Lamb, Director of Development at 1.877.862.5984 or email jlamb@blythfestival.com
Blyth Centre for the Arts Blyth Festival Art Gallery As it heads into its 42nd year, the Blyth Festival Art Gallery has announced its exhibitions for 2017. The annual Student Show will feature work from art students in Perth and Huron County secondary schools and the general public is invited to submit art for the annual non-juried (open) Community Show. Michelle Zarytshansky is a graduate student at the University of Waterloo, presently working on her Master of Arts degree. Her exhibition will feature a number of large abstract paintings, using sharp black and white geometrics with subtle textural components to create her startling images.
The Bishop’s Palace, Waterford, Ireland by Julian Mulock acrylic on canvas
Darren Woluschuk works from his third-floor home studio in Seaforth to produce vivid life-like images interwoven into a surreal landscape. He will be exhibiting works drawn from his daydreams and abstract thoughts, and showing how the images that we surround ourselves with, inevitably spill out into our daily lives.
2017 Exhibitions Student Show 2017 | May 25 to June 8 Community Show 2017 | June 10 to June 23 Michelle Zarytshansky | June 30 to July 31 Darren Woluschuk | August 4 to 28 Julian Mulock | September 1 to 23
Julian Mulock is a nationally renowned Toronto artist who will present a series of paintings of “Silent Spaces,” each executed with achitectural precision, yet inviting and warm. Imagine you’ve just walked into a room, empty now, but bathed in light and shadow. What or who had been here? All exhibitions are organized by an enthusiastic group of volunteers and displayed in the Bainton Gallery in Blyth Memorial Hall. The Gallery is open the same hours as the theatre box office. For more information call 519.345.2184.
A Voluminous Harvest by Darren Woluschuk watercolour, acrylic, oils
Blyth Festival Singers Blyth Festival Singers is a county-wide community choir under the professional direction of Sharon Poelstra. The choir performs primarily in Huron County and has endeavoured to present a high standard of choral singing since its inception in 1980. A variety of music is performed: arts songs from all eras, popular music, Canadian and world folk songs, sacred and secular masterpieces. Like us on Facebook!
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HURON SHORES & BEYOND - Dinner Cabaret
Saturday, May 27 | Stanley Township Hall | Doors open at 6pm Adults: $30 | Children 6-12: $15 Rounding out the season’s musical journey will be our Cabaret dinner/concert/auction. Our musical guests, Reynolds, Robinson & Lodge, have a Celtic flair and we will also pay tribute to music from this area that we call home — music both near and far. The trio has just finished recording their CD and we look forward to hearing their great tunes. Enjoy the music, the full-course dinner, and fantastic silent auction.
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AROUND THE WORLD IN SONG
Sunday, April 2 | Northside United Church, Seaforth | 3pm Adults: $15 | Children under 12: $6 This concert, highlighting the Blyth Festival Singers and soloists and small groups from the choir, will feature songs to celebrate the 150th birthday of Canada as well as other great international music - from traditional folk songs to modern tunes that are known worldwide.
Formed in 1995, the Blyth Festival Orchestra performs frequently throughout the year and shines during special performances on the lawn during the theatre season. Its members are drawn from Huron County and the surrounding areas. This year on Palm Sunday (April 9), they will perform Part 1 of Bach’s Passion of St. John with thatotherchoir, directed by Louise Dockstader, at Clinton United Church. On June 10 at a Canada 150 concert at Southampton United Church, they will play music celebrating Canada from 1867, 1917, 1967, and 2017. The Orchestra will play another concert with thatotherchoir, also in honour of Canada’s 150th birthday, playing a newly commissioned piece by Jeff Smallman.
Annual Used Book Sale
June 1: 4pm - 9pm | June 2: 9am - 9pm June 3: 9am - 5pm | June 4: 12pm - 4pm A Blyth Festival tradition! | Free Admission Blyth Memorial Community Hall - Lower Hall
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Order your delicious homemade pie for pick up; Visit our “Book Café” for a Soup & Sandwich lunch or join us after church for tea and coffee - we’re open all hours of the Book Sale!
Opening Night Gala Dinner
Friday, June 30 | 5:45pm | $40 Blyth Memorial Community Hall - Lower Hall Begin the season in style! Join Blyth Festival’s staff, board, sponsors, donors, and friends at our Opening Night Gala Dinner; this year in the newly renovated Lower Hall!
New Play Readings
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August | Blyth Memorial Community Hall - Lower Hall Join us in the Lower Hall for readings of plays in development. Throughout August we will be holding staged readings of New Plays we’ve been working on. This is a chance for you to hear some of the voices we are considering amplifying into our future seasons. These are live, intimate events, with actors from our 2017 company reading roles from as yet unproduced plays. Call the box office for more details.
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Blyth Memorial Hall Seat Sale Part of the FOUR million dollar renovation of Blyth Memorial Community Hall is replacing the seats in the auditorium (if you sat in the old ones, you’d know why!). For a one-time donation of $500 you can leave a lasting legacy and stand behind our aim to “give voice to the region and the nation.” Many have already chosen to be a part of our seat sale. We can’t express our gratitude enough. The deep sense of proprietorship that Blyth’s audience feels for this theatre is a beacon from its history into the future. We’ve heard so many inspiring stories about why people have bought seats… donors who bought seats to remember lost loved ones; a father who bought two, one for his daughter who loved the theatre, one for her fiancé; couples who are buying them as gifts for each other; grandparents who are buying them to put the names of their grandkids on the seats; grandkids buying them to remember their grandma who brought them to theatre; descendants of veterans who want a tangible way to make their own family’s sacrifice into a lasting part of the legacy of Blyth Memorial Community Hall. Everyone who buys a seat is free to choose what will be engraved on that plaque… “In Loving Memory of…” has so far been the most common start, and we think there is something profoundly beautiful about it all… the memories of the way we come together in the theatre… and now, all those names, there in the hall, etched in brass, sitting with us, season after season, as we continue to tell our stories. This is an excellent opportunity to make a public commitment to Original Canadian Theatre, to give a unique gift to a passionate arts lover, or to honour the memory of a beloved theatre devotee. Consider being a part of this legacy.
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There’s still time to take your seat in the house!
The Renovation Well… let’s just say we’re in the market for an oversized pair of scissors! After three years of community consultations, boardroom negotiations, council meetings, draft presentations, and pleas for donations… we’ve done it! This auspicious year, the Blyth Centre for the Arts opens its doors for its first season in our thoroughly renovated building. The stage has been rebuilt, the Lower Hall has been transformed, every seat in the theatre has been replaced, the equipment has been thoroughly upgraded, the lobby has been expanded, the Art Gallery has been revamped, and the whole place is ready for the next dynamic season of Live Original Canadian Theatre. We are so incredibly grateful to the Province of Ontario, Canadian Heritage, the Township of North Huron, our partners at 14/19, and all of the generous, passionate individuals and companies that have come on board to ensure that this enormous undertaking was accomplished with grace, speed, and style. The whole project has been such a powerful assertion of the vital role the Blyth Festival plays within this incomparable community.
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An evening at a bed and breakfast after dinner and the show or a week, unplugged, looking at stars and fireflies – stay awhile in North Huron! Choose a well-appointed room at a historic main street inn or a bed and breakfast that allows you to walk our downtowns and pop into shops and restaurants. If “getting away from it all” is more your style, consider a cottage or retreat where fishing, nature walks and paddling are available at your leisure. If you would prefer reading a book by a pond or yoga under the trees, we have LOTS of places for you to relax, unwind and enjoy! North Huron is home to two campgrounds, so you can enjoy everything we have to offer and sleep in your own bed too! For help planning your stay in North Huron visit... northhuron.ca
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Fresh and local – for some, it’s a movement; for us, it’s a way of life. North Huron boasts some of the richest farm land in the province and our residents enjoy the bounty! We invite you, our visitors, to savour our fresh and delicious fare. From gourmet meals prepared by awardwinning chefs to farm-gate products to take away – fresh and local is what we do! For a list of local food and drink establishments, please visit... northhuron.ca
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We are proud to be home to the Blyth Festival and we love having excellent Canadian Theatre in our own backyard! There’s lots to do in North Huron. A creative hub and activities galore – there is something for everyone! Experience one of our festivals, perfect the Rumba, create a pottery masterpiece, or discover our trails – these are just a few of the extraordinary events waiting for you. Leave your cares behind and spend some time in beautiful, creative, natural North Huron. For suggestions on where to play in North Huron, go to... northhuron.ca