HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2011-11-10, Page 27THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2011. PAGE 27.
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Foodland, Burke’s Tent Rentals,
Cheryl’s Critter Care, Cinnamon
Jim’s, the Cowboy Loft, Go Video,
Island Wire, It’s A Shear Thing,
J.R.’s Family Restaurant, Maitside
Orchard, McCutcheon Motors,
McDonald Home Hardware, Mystic
Willows, Oldfield’s Hardware,
Primitive Wares, Radar Auto Parts,
Sholdice Insurance and Sholdice
Financial, Solace on Turnberry and
Turning Heads and Making Waves.
Participating businesses not acting
as stamp pick-up or passport drop-
off locations are the Brussels Public
Library, Chris Ten Pas RDMT, Don
Montgomery Auto Body, Elite
Limousine and Schimanski Funeral
Home. The Brussels branch of the
CIBC is acting as a passport
drop-off location only. For a full
list of participating businesses
and details see advertisement on
page 6.
More details on the event and the
upcoming Christmas parade in
Brussels on Nov. 26 at 5 p.m. are
available on the municipal website
at www.huroneast.com
Continued from page 1wishing they were somewhere else,”Coates said. “So it’s about the allureof these gangsters, but they were notnice guys and they were really
glamourized.”
The season’s fourth play is
undoubtedly the Festival’s ‘outsider’
of the year, as Coates puts it.
Every year he tries to push the
envelope with one show and in 2012
it’s with a play by the husband and
wife playwright team of Clem
Martini and Cheryl Foggo of
Calgary.
The play begins with inspiration
from Foggo’s real-life experiences
of growing up as one of the only
black families in Regina,
Saskatchewan in the 1940s, but then
turns into a gripping work of fiction,
Coates says.
Two teenage girls are home alone
when a stranger busts into their
home insisting it sits on buried
treasure, Coates says, and as the
story goes on, the man and the two
teenagers find they have a lot more
in common than they might have
originally thought, both being on the
edge of society.
In keeping with the rural focus of
the 2012, Coates is also hoping torevisit a concept that formed thebasis for the Blyth Festival in 1975with The Farm Show.While Coates will not be
consulting The Farm Show’s original
script at all, the idea will be to send
out this year’s Young Company
members to local farm businesses
and have them work and live in
Huron County’s largest industry.
Upon returning, the Young
Company members will craft a play
from their experiences with area
farmers, Coates says.
Upon completion of the project,
Coates has some big plans for it.
“This will be a new study on what
it is to live and work on the farms
here,” Coates said.
Coates says he hopes to produce
the play around the Blyth area and
eventually at the Thresher Reunion.
In addition, later into September,
interest has been expressed in
bringing the play to Exeter for
several performances, truly making
it a travelling show.
Coates also says he’ll be bringing
another “edgier” project to the
Phillips Studio once again, but is not
yet at the point where he knows what
the project will be. Coates says the two 2011 projects,Miss Caledonia and The Hanging ofFrançoise Laurent were sosuccessful that it was a no-brainer to
bring another similar project to
Blyth.All in all, Coates says, he hopesthat the farmers and families fromHuron County relate to the 2012season because it was crafted with
them in mind.
“The real signature on this seasonis farmer-friendly plays that havereal substance,” he says. “There’sreal guts to these plays and they takea genuine look at what it is to be a
farmer.”
Young Company to revisit ‘Farm Show’ in 2012
Initiative begins Nov. 17