June 15 to September 3, 2016
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200th PRODUCTION 125th PREMIERE Blyth Festival is proud of its unique and extraordinary success in developing and producing new Canadian plays. This season, our 42nd, the Blyth Festival will celebrate two milestones: The Birds and the Bees by Mark Crawford, is our 200th production AND is also our 125th world premiere to be staged. Since 1975 (and including this season), the Blyth Festival has premiered 127 scripts, with over half going on to second or multiple productions in Canada, the United States, Europe, and Asia. Works that originated in Blyth have won major Canadian theatre awards, including the Governor General’s Award, the Chalmers Award and the Dora Mavor Moore Award. Before a new play can make its debut on stage it demands endless attention from the playwright, as well as from the creative team that provides direction and encouragement each step of the way. The Blyth Festival New Play Development Program is designed to work closely with playwrights to prepare their scripts for fullfledged production at producing theatres, not exclusively for production at the Blyth Festival. The number of new plays in active development with the Blyth Festival varies according to how each project is funded. Some projects are commissioned and developed directly through the Festival’s new play budget. Others are supported by arts councils and foundations that offer funding directly to the playwright. In these cases, the Blyth Festival still supports the development by covering expenses for workshop readings and dramaturgy. The play development process may include a reading, staged reading, or workshop, with dramaturgical guidance and support at each stage of the process.
David Fox, Emily Lukasik, J.D. Nicholsen in St. Anne’s Reel. Photo: Terry Manzo.
A selection of celebrated works first conceived at the Blyth Festival includes: The Wilberforce Hotel by Sean Dixon (2015) Fury Book and Lyrics by Peter Smith; Music by Samuel Sholdice (2015) Kitchen Radio Book by Marion de Vries; Music & Lyrics by Marion de Vries and David Archibald (2014) St. Anne’s Reel by Gil Garratt (2014) Stag and Doe by Mark Crawford (2014) Dear Johnny Deere by Ken Cameron, based on the music of Fred Eaglesmith (2012, 2013) Pearl Gidley by Gary Kirkham (2010) Innocence Lost - A play about Steven Truscott by Beverley Cooper (2008, 2009) Reverend Jonah by Paul Ciufo (2007) Test Drive by Dave Carley (2004) Having Hope at Home by David S. Craig (2003) The Outdoor Donnellys by Paul Thompson (2001) The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey (2000) Bordertown Café by Kelly Rebar (1987) Another Season’s Promise by Anne Chislett and Keith Roulston (1986) Cake-Walk by Colleen Curran (1984) Quiet in the Land by Anne Chislett (1981) I’ll Be Back Before Midnight by Peter Colley (1979)
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR GIL GARRATT A beacon. This is what great stories are in our lives, beacons calling to us, flashes of brightness that orient and re-orient our constant travels. Great stories, told with passion and flare, courage and comedy, are what carries us through the world, and ultimately what comes to define who we are. For 42 years, this is what the Blyth Festival has been, a bright beacon in the distance, calling us home. And this year we will be doing that singular magical thing that Blyth does best: premiering four new plays. Come to Blyth in 2016. I promise you an incomparable season of Heroes and Heroines, History and Hilarity; all of it homegrown, all of it as true to the technicolor spirit of Blyth as the sun setting over Huron.
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A play about love of family, the search for bravery, and the always complicated paths to manhood, motherhood, and peace.
World Premiere June 15 to August 6
OUR BEAUTIFUL SONS: REMEMBERING MATTHEW DINNING Written by Christopher Morris | Directed by Gil Garratt
Lincoln and Laurie Dinning were faced with a choice few of us can fathom; were they really prepared to face it all again? Their son, Matthew Dinning, was a dynamic, funny, charming young man who grew up, just outside of Blyth, in Wingham, Ontario. Known for his strikingly good looks and his natural leadership, Matthew was a popular kid at his high school, an accomplished local hockey player, a huge fan of rugby; an all-around good guy. Matthew’s first posting with the Canadian Forces was at Petawawa in May 2004, as a member of the Military Police. Shortly thereafter, at the age of 22, Matthew became the youngest member of the Canadian Forces’ Close Protection Unit.
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In April of 2006, at 23 years young, Corporal Matthew Dinning was killed in Afghanistan. A year later, his younger brother, Brendon, volunteered for active service. The Canadian Forces called his parents, and asked them how to proceed. Should they decline Brendon’s request? Should they assign him duties here in Canada instead? …Or should they grant his request, knowing the sacrifice this family had already made for their country? How do a loving mom and dad make a decision like this?
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World Premiere June 22 to August 6
THE BIRDS AND THE BEES Written by Mark Crawford | Directed by Ann Hodges
From the writer of 2014’s runaway hit Stag and Doe, comes The Birds and the Bees, a raucous, hilarious new comedy with huge, honeyed heart. It’s nearly time for the last-ever annual Turkey Days Festival. The excitement in town is palpable, and Gail is on the committee. A retired empty-nester, Gail has been quietly raising bees in solitude, by herself, by her lonesome, all alone, completely unaccompanied... (okay, it’s been awhile). Unexpectedly, her grown daughter Sarah returns home; it seems twenty years of artificially inseminating turkeys has taken a toll on Sarah’s love life, and she and her husband are through. As both women set about putting their lives back in order, and reacquaint themselves with living under the same roof, they are visited by an eager, athletic, strapping, young grad student named Ben who has come to study the declining bee population… but things get…well… a little extra-curricular.
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Throw in a meddlesome neighbour, a little internet dating, and the last pair of tickets to the final Turkey Days Dance of all time, and you have a racy recipe for relentless laughter. Production Sponsor
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An award winning writer moves back to her old hometown, only to discover her childhood friends and neighbours want her book banned. Photo: Terry Manzo
World Premiere July 27 to September 3
IF TRUTH BE TOLD
Written by Beverley Cooper | Directed by Miles Potter Fact or fiction, truth or lies, literature or smut; who decides what we can or cannot read? She won awards for her writing all over the country, and made a name for herself internationally, by writing stories set in the small town where she grew up. But when she leaves the city and moves back to her old hometown, her childhood friends and neighbours are anything but impressed, and a concerted campaign begins to have her work banned in the local high school. In her fight against the zealous censors, she befriends a teenage girl who is herself an aspiring young artist. What follows is a high stakes lesson in what it means to tell the whole truth, what it means to tell a good story, and what it costs to fight the good fight. Production Sponsor
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World Premiere August 4 to September 2
THE LAST DONNELLY STANDING Written by Paul Thompson and Gil Garratt | Directed by Paul Thompson
The Last Donnelly Standing is the ultimate fiery epilogue to the bloody Biddulph Feud. Of the seven Donnelly brothers, only one was ever sentenced to hard time in prison; only one was ever convicted of “assault with intent to kill and murder” (on a duly deputized police officer no less); only one returned to the charred foundations on the infamous Roman Line to drive his hammer against fresh timbers and rebuild from the ashes: Robert Donnelly. A successful business man in tumultuous times, known equally for his quick temper as his elegant fashion sense; Robert’s family name may have made him an object of scorn in the community, but his own fiery nature solidified his reputation. So notorious was Robert’s role in the Biddulph feud, that Orlo Miller, one authoritative historian on the Lucan terror, remarked of his own research into the arrest warrants of the period that “the Donnelly name had been conspicuously absent from the records since Bob had gone off to Kingston Penitentiary.” Even the London Free Times in 1878 described the way he sat as he stood trial for attempting to kill Constable Sam Everett, with “a broad grin across his face.” When the rest of the family had moved away after the fateful murders of 1880, Robert refused, and instead took up residence in a house on Lucan’s main street, pacing his porch as the murderers among them walked those very roads. The Last Donnelly Standing details the rise and fall of a defiant young man, who stood in the face of history, and dared to burn it all down with a smile. Production Sponsor
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The rise and fall of a defiant young man who stood in the face of history and dared to burn it all down with a smile.
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HOW TO ORDER
Tickets go on sale to: Members - February 1, 2016 Groups - March 1, 2016 General Public - April 1, 2016
Tickets
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Flex Pass $125 Preferred $110 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 5-7) $105
See four plays in three days. A Blyth Festival tradition! Four tickets total.
Gift Pass $60 (Available September 1 to December 24 only)
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2016 CALENDAR Mainstage Blyth Memorial Community Hall 431 Queen Street
Dinning Our Beautiful Sons: Remembering Matthew Dinning Birds The Birds and the Bees Truth If Truth Be Told Donnelly The Last Donnelly Standing Phillips Studio 209 Dinsley Street YoCo Young Company
Good Scents Policy On behalf of those who have serious allergies, we respectfully ask that employees, artists, and patrons refrain from wearing perfume, scented hairspray, cologne, scented deodorants, aftershave, or other scented products in the theatre building.
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Bonanza Weekend August 5 to 7 Purchase a Bonanza Pass and see four plays in three days. A Blyth Festival tradition! Opening Night Gala Dinner June 17 | 5.45pm | $40 Begin the season in style at our Gala Opening Night Dinner in the Lower Hall. CKNX Night - June 15 | $15 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 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. Note: The reception for Donnelly on Aug. 10 takes place after the performance.
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Contributions from individual donors directly support the exceptional repertoire of work brought to life on our stage each season. Your membership donation of $40 or more ensures that the Blyth Festival can continue to provide a unique voice in Canadian theatre. When you donate to the Blyth Festival, your gift can be directed to a number of different areas: A gift to the Operating Fund directly supports play production, including artist fees, wardrobe, props, carpentry, scenic art, lighting, and sound. A new play demands attention before it debuts on stage. Gifts to The Roulston Roy New Play Development help fund this process, and ensure that playwrights receive necessary support. Gifts to the Young Company allow Blyth Festival to present this rare opportunity at no cost to participants. Other youth programming includes drama workshops for children aged 5 to 12, and a Theatre-for-YoungAudience production for elementary schools each fall. Sheila Richards was a volunteer with Blyth Festival from 1978-1994. It was from her passion, dedication, and tireless work that The Sheila Richards Memorial Capital Fund was formed. Gifts donated to this fund will help carry on Sheila’s legacy.
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Membership benefits include: - Early booking privileges - Free ticket exchange privileges - Advance notice of the season - Curtain Call - our exclusive Members-only newsletter - Recognition in the house program - One (1) vote at the Annual General Meeting - Charitable tax receipt
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NEW PLAY DEVELOPMENT No single thing more defines and distinguishes the role of the Blyth Festival than our New Play Development Program. From the company’s very first season to the one contained in this brochure, the Blyth Festival has premiered 127 New Canadian Plays. In addition to the plays you see fully realized on our stages, Blyth’s incomparable group of artists are constantly at work, researching, writing, rewriting, re-researching, rewriting (again), workshopping, reading, and rewriting some more. It is an incredible undertaking: a simultaneously herculean task and one as delicate as holding a snowflake. But nothing is as central to who we are, as our work with playwrights and creators.
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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: John McHenry, Director of Marketing & Development Tel: 519.523.9300 | Toll Free: 1.877.862.5984 | Email: jmchenry@blythfestival.com
BLYTH FESTIVAL YOUNG COMPANY
The Blyth Festival Young Company offers an unparalleled summer experience for young people local to the area. Each year the Festival hires a professional director who works with the group in a five week intensive, free of charge. The company members learn not only valuable actor training and performance technique, but are also responsible for writing and developing their own original show for our Phillips Studio; encouraging self-expression, confidence, teamwork, and leadership. While many of our Young Company alumni have gone on to have professional careers in the theatre, all of our graduates have gone on to distinguish themselves within their communities.
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June 2 to 5 | Free Admission A Blyth Festival tradition June 2: 4pm - 9pm | June 3: 9am - 9pm June 4: 9am - 5pm | June 5: 12pm - 4pm
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SPECIAL EVENTS 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!
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LETTER FROM WINGFIELD FARM
We’re going back to the beginning! In a series of letters to the editor of the Larkspur weekly newspaper, Walt Wingfield tells of the people and events of his first year as a man of the soil. The first in the series of Wingfield shows.
OPENING NIGHT GALA DINNER
Friday, June 17 | 5:45pm | $40
THE POLKA DOGS SING THE HANK WILLIAMS SONG BOOK
Saturday, April 30 | 8pm | $30
A multi-artist musical tribute to master singer-songwriter Hank Williams. Music direction by Soulpepper Resident Artist John Millard and featuring The Polka Dogs (Tom Walsh on trombone, Tiina Kirk on accordion, Colin Couch on tuba, John Millard on banjo and vocals, and Ambrose Pottie on drums). Don’t miss these world class musicians as they mightily celebrate one of the all-time greats!
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.
NEW PLAY READING
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 2016 company reading roles from as yet unproduced plays. Call the box office for details.
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BLYTH CENTRE FOR THE ARTS Blyth Festival Art Gallery
As it heads into its 41st year as part of the Blyth Centre for the Arts, the Blyth Festival Art Gallery has announced exhibitions for 2016. 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. The first of the professional series of exhibitions is by Wendy Orr, a Stratford artist whose show of recent paintings, is entitled Quiet Time. Three Huron County artists will collaborate with a shared display of their paintings. Though each has her own distinctive style, Elfi Enns, Madeleine Roske, and Jane Stryker, find a similar point of view in Common Ground. The final show is by Montina Hussey, a recent graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, recently completed studies in Florence, Italy. Her show, entitled Transfiguration, deals with “liberating what is repressed within us.�
2016 Exhibitions
Student Show 2016 | April 28 to May 19 Community Show 2016 | May 21 to June 11 Quiet Time: Wendy Orr | June 17 to July 9 Common Ground: Elfi Enns, Madeleine Roske,
Jane Stryker | July 15 to August 7
Transfiguration: Montina Hussey | August 12 to September 3
All exhibitions are organized by an enthusiastic group of volunteers and are displayed on the Bainton Gallery in the Blyth Memorial Hall. The gallery is open during the same hours as the theatre box office. For more information, email: gallery@blythfestival.com or telephone: 519.345.2184. On the Ridge, oil, by Madeleine Roske
Alpaca, acrylic, by Wendy Orr
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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!
Requiem
April 10 | Clinton United Church | 3pm | $15 Adults $6 Children $40 Family The Blyth Festival Singers are pleased to share with you this splendid contemporary work that affirms life and life after death. This will be Director Sharon Poelstra’s fourth opportunity to conduct John Rutter’s Requiem - a work that delights audiences and singers alike. Renowned organist Ian Sadler will accompany this grand opus and guest musicians including well known flautist Jan Searle. The second half will feature other contemporary and contemplative pieces to lift your soul!
Dinner Cabaret
May 28 | Varna Community Complex | 6:30pm | $25 Rounding out the season’s musical journey in May will be the next installment of our popular Cabaret dinner-concert-auction. Join the Blyth Singers and popular local band “Whiskey Jack” and once the choir’s singing is done, it will be time to put on your dancing shoes! After a long hiatus, “Whiskey Jack” is back and better than ever!
Blyth Festival Orchestra
Formed in 1995, the Blyth Festival Orchestra performs frequently throughout the year and shines during special performances on the lawn during the theatre season. It’s members are drawn from Huron County and the surrounding areas.
BLYTH MEMORIAL HALL SEAT SALE Soon the doors of the theatre will close and a three million dollar renovation will begin. We, at the Blyth Festival, are invested in keeping our audiences experience at the forefront of the plans... a core part of which will be replacing the seats. So many of you have already chosen to donate toward the big renovation by being 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. For those of you who have contributed, we can’t thank you enough. For those who haven’t had a chance yet, consider being part of this legacy. 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.” This is an excellent opportunity to make a public commitment to Canadian Theatre, to give a unique gift to a passionate arts lover, or to perhaps honour the memory of a beloved theatre devotee. Call 519.523.9300 Toll Free 1.877.862.5984 or speak with someone in our box office about how you can truly...
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AND RENOVATION PROJECT Forty-four years ago, when a group of ambitious young actors came to Blyth to rehearse their play in Blyth Community Hall, the building was in disrepair and had been shuttered for years; they actually had to sign waivers that if the building collapsed on their heads they wouldn’t sue anyone! 1972: Dedicated volunteers came together and raised money to have the roof repaired. 1975: The hall upstairs is reopened and the first season is mounted. 1976: Air conditioning is added! 1980: The North Wing. A brick addition is added including: dressing rooms, a box office, and an administration office.
1990: The Big One. The addition of backstage, the crossover, the loading dock, the Art Gallery, the glassed in lobby, the ‘link’ to the new administration offices, the addition of the June Hill rehearsal hall, as well as the construction of our workshops and the Phillips Studio.
2004: The current seats on the main floor are installed. 2005: Thanks to the generosity of one donor, Mr. Robin Pitcher, the entire balcony was given brand new seating. 2007: Overhaul of the lighting in the lower hall to energy efficient compact fluorescent dimmables.
2010: All of the windows on Memorial Hall are replaced and the brick repointed. Complete electrical upgrades for our stage and booth, including adding more circuits, allowing for more capacity than ever before in our lighting and special effects.
2012: Sound and Lighting consoles are all replaced. I-Cues are added in the grid. 2013: Courtyard interlocking brick repaired and re-laid. 2015: New high efficiency HVAC system is added in the Administration building. And now, after 42 seasons, 202 productions, and 127 world premieres, it’s time for a major renovation. After two years of community wide consultations, the Blyth Festival (together with the Township of North Huron, and the Blyth 14/19 group), are ambitiously renovating the hall. This renovation will include new seats, a new stage surface, increased accessibility, a thoroughly reconfigured lower hall downstairs, a new roof, and HVAC. It’s a huge undertaking, and a renewal we hope will be enjoyed by our audience for generations to come. And we need your help... If you’d like to be involved in helping us realize this goal, come talk to us when you’re in Blyth to see one of this year’s amazing shows. As a registered charity, we have many different ways you can donate.
PLAN YOUR VISIT
ATTRACTIONS, ACCOMMODATIONS AND DINING. There’s something for everyone in Huron County! When planning your trip to the Blyth Festival, be sure to take the time to enjoy some local flavour while you are here. With countless events and activities, the County of Huron has become the new cottage country, and vacation destination for families this summer. Take in one of the farmers’ markets, pristine beaches, antique shops, music festivals, bistros, cafes, hiking trails - the list goes on and on! Make your trip to the Blyth Festival your “stay”cation of the summer!
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