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The other vivid image he has,
Thompson says, that all that hectic
activity in the barn that employed 12
to 16 people will be carried out under
the new technology by two people,
one of them the farm wife in the
kitchen preparing the family's food.
The wife also becomes a full partner
in a more complicated enterprise than
before.
Complicated family relationships
have always been part of farming,
Thompson points out. There are the
complicated dynamics as the father
brings the son into the operation,
then gradually has to give way and
let the younger generation take over.
One of his favourite characters in the
piece is the old farmer who has had
to hand over to the son the control of
the farm and now can't even do the
work in the granary at threshing time,
the sortof low end of the social
structure in the threshing experience.
The people of those crews
talked little but there was a lot
going on, he recalls, even the
silences speaking volumes.
Thompson keeps being drawn
back to his rural roots in creating
shows, first in Toronto with Theatre
Passe Muraille where he created The
Farm Show and the first version of
He Won't Come in From the Barn
and more recently at the Blyth
Festival, close to his old home town
and near his country home near
Brussels. With Blyth he has used his
collective creation techniques to
recall the glory days of the CKNX
Barn Dance in Barndance Live! in
1996 and recall the days of the
Canada Temperance Act in Booze
Days in a Dry County.
"There's something almost
addictive about creating shows for
this audience," he says of his
relationship with the Blyth Festival.
He's drawn to the knowledge his
audience brings to many of the
aspects of life he wants to tell stories
about. At the same time, despite the
reputation of western Ontario as
being conservative, Thompson
enjoys the sense of adventure people
take with them to the theatre. The
audience at Blyth has seen so much
theatre over the past 25 years, from
Billy Bishop Goes to War before it
played Toronto and New York, to
CODCO, the improvisational
Newfoundland troupe some of whose
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ARTHUR CHRYSLER
Q SALES dig LEASING
Hwy. #6 North, MOUNT FOREST (519) 323-1981
20 THE RURAL VOICE
The other vivid image he has,
Thompson says, that all that hectic
activity in the barn that employed 12
to 16 people will be carried out under
the new technology by two people,
one of them the farm wife in the
kitchen preparing the family's food.
The wife also becomes a full partner
in a more complicated enterprise than
before.
Complicated family relationships
have always been part of farming,
Thompson points out. There are the
complicated dynamics as the father
brings the son into the operation,
then gradually has to give way and
let the younger generation take over.
One of his favourite characters in the
piece is the old farmer who has had
to hand over to the son the control of
the farm and now can't even do the
work in the granary at threshing time,
the sortof low end of the social
structure in the threshing experience.
The people of those crews
talked little but there was a lot
going on, he recalls, even the
silences speaking volumes.
Thompson keeps being drawn
back to his rural roots in creating
shows, first in Toronto with Theatre
Passe Muraille where he created The
Farm Show and the first version of
He Won't Come in From the Barn
and more recently at the Blyth
Festival, close to his old home town
and near his country home near
Brussels. With Blyth he has used his
collective creation techniques to
recall the glory days of the CKNX
Barn Dance in Barndance Live! in
1996 and recall the days of the
Canada Temperance Act in Booze
Days in a Dry County.
"There's something almost
addictive about creating shows for
this audience," he says of his
relationship with the Blyth Festival.
He's drawn to the knowledge his
audience brings to many of the
aspects of life he wants to tell stories
about. At the same time, despite the
reputation of western Ontario as
being conservative, Thompson
enjoys the sense of adventure people
take with them to the theatre. The
audience at Blyth has seen so much
theatre over the past 25 years, from
Billy Bishop Goes to War before it
played Toronto and New York, to
CODCO, the improvisational
Newfoundland troupe some of whose