HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 2010-09-09, Page 22PAGE 22. THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2010.‘Homegrown’ celebrates Festival’s history
The Blyth Festival will be
welcoming back many of their
celebrated artists for a variety
fundraiser entitled Homegrown.
Billed as a one-night-only show
that celebrates the last 35 years of
arts in Blyth,Homegrown will
feature several familiar faces from
the Blyth Festival including Artistic
Director Eric Coates, Michelle Fisk
(Cruel Tears,Reverend Jonah),
associate artistic director Gil Garrat,
David Archambault and blues artist
Raoul Bhaneja (Barndance Live!)
The event will serve as a
fundraiser for the Festival, and, with
pieces from past productions being
displayed, help remind people theFestival’s past.Coates explained that the eventwas inspired by the uniqueconnection that the Blyth Festivalcultivates with its audience.
“There is such a sense of
ownership of the Blyth audience,”
Coates said. “People feel
connections with the shows and that
doesn’t really happen at a modern
theatre.”
The challenge with this event,
according to Coates, has been
finding pieces that are indicative of
the Festival’s works that artists are
available to participate in.
“It’s really been a matter of
finding who we can and that has lead
to a lot of the work being musical,”
he said. “Musicians are very willing
to pack up and show up and share
their talent and time.”
Coates said that this is a
serendipitous turn of events because
the show allows him the pleasure of
letting people know what the artists
they are used to seeing are capable
of.
“It is a real pleasure for me to
show the other side of artists, and
what they can do,” Coates said.
“Michelle Fisk will be singing songs
from Cruel Tears, for example,
which is a treat because the audience
doesn’t get to see her sing.”
Coates said that other artists who
will be showing their musical talents
will include husband-and-wife duo
Garrat and Cappy Onn, along with
Archambault, co-writer of The
Perilous Pirates Daughter.Ted Johns, who has been an actorand playwright at the Blyth Festivalfor years, will be providing newcontent for the fundraiser. Johns will be taking to the stage
with a new piece called Bill
Gomserall.
A monologue, the piece is part of
four stories that Johns wrote while
staying in Saskatchewan.
“Me and [my wife Janet Amos]
lived in Saskatchewan, in Regina for
two or three years,” Johns explains.
“I divided the map of Saskatchewan
into quarters and went and camped
and stayed in each of them and wrote
The Regina Monologues.”
The Regina Monologues is four
different stories about historical or
noteworthy characters that are
connected to the area in which Johns
stayed.
His first presentation was of Bruce
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Drawer Boy
Gil Garratt, John Blackwood and Layne Coleman were members of the 2000 cast of The
Drawer Boy. The play will have some of its more memorable scenes re-enacted as part of the
Blyth Festival’s Homegrown fundraiser on September 11. (Submitted photo)
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