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Clowning around
Snippety the Clown was one of the main attractions at
Friday night’s Laughter and Lyrics concert at Knox United
Church in Auburn. The evening featured a perfect mix of
local music and shenanigans. (Denny Scott photo)
Memorial Hall’s history on
display with new series
Continued from page 17
Vries’ parents lived there during the
Nazi occupation in the Second
World War. They were part of the
post-war exodus to Canada that
brought many Dutch families to the
Great White North as farm
labourers.
The series will begin in 2014, the
100th anniversary of the beginning
of World War I, with Billy Bishop
Goes To War, a musical about the
Owen Sound pilot.
One of the first plays de Vries
considered for the series is John
Mighton’s Half Life, which takes
place in a veterans nursing home. De
Vries says she has the rights to
produce the play and hopes it will be
on the Festival stage in the next few
years.
“It’s a lovely, beautiful play,” de
Vries says of Mighton’s work.
Another play de Vries wants to
bring back to the Blyth stage is Quiet
In The Land by Festival co-founder
Anne Chislett, the winner of the
Chalmers Canadian Play Award and
the Governor General’s Award.
“It’s a really dynamic, moving
play,” de Vries says. “It’s a brilliant
play and it was developed and
premiered right here at the Blyth
Festival.”
The play follows Jacob (Yock)
Bauman, a young Amish man who
goes against the wishes of his family
and chooses to fight with the British
Forces as World War I rages on in
Europe.
Quiet In The Land, de Vries says,
fits in perfectly with what she hopes
to do with the Memorial Series. The
series, she says, is not just about war
and the armed forces, but on the toll
war takes on family members and
friends when a loved one is off to
war.
“All of our plays aren’t going to
just be about war. There will be
plays about war, about soldiers and
about veterans, but there will be the
stories about why someone decides
to go and fight in a war, about that
sense of duty, the courage and the
heroism, the effect of losing
someone, the sons and daughters
who fight and the wives and families
left behind,” de Vries says.
The hope is that the series, de
Vries says, will help bring history
alive for Festival audiences, and help
tell those stories in a way they’ll find
entertaining and informative.
“It’s an experience coming to a
play,” de Vries says. “That’s what a
play is all about, it tells a story. A
painting tells a story through
imagery, dance tells a story through
movement and with plays, stories
happen right before your eyes.
They’re carried out right in front of
you and that’s a way to connect with
a story.”
One play that already has an
established place in the series, de
Vries says, will be Christopher
Morris’ work on the life and death of
Wingham-area soldier Matthew
Dinning, who was killed by an IED
in 2006 in Afghanistan.
De Vries is also considering a
number of other plays, including The
Final Hour by Dave Carney and a
play by Suzanne Pasternak on the
life of Robert Clarence Thompson,
the man who founded the Teeswater
Creamery, but who also enlisted in
the armed forces at the age of 14.
“A lot of people have some
personal connections to war,
whether it’s through knowing a
soldier or knowing a veteran,” de
Vries says. “So when you come to
see a play in this series, this is a great
way to honour these people.”
Honouring the fallen
The Blyth Legion and Blyth Legion Ladies Auxiliary held its annual Remembrance Day church
service on Sunday at Londesborough United Church, led by President Andy Lubbers, left, and
Rick McBurney, right. The two groups will play a vital role with the Blyth Festival Memorial
Series going forward, says Artistic Director Marion de Vries. (Vicky Bremner photo)