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JUNE 12 TO SEPTEMBER 28, 2019
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JUNE 12 to AUGUST 10 | WORLD PREMIERE
JUMBO By Sean Dixon
One of the biggest tales in the history of South Western Ontario, playwright Sean Dixon
brings the real larger-than-life story of Jumbo the Elephant’s fateful final performance in
St Thomas, to the Blyth Festival stage.
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CAKEWALK By Colleen Curran
On our 45th anniversary, we are bringing back this delicious comedy that premiered at
the Blyth Festival in 1984 and went on to international acclaim.
JULY 31 to SEPTEMBER 5
THE TEAM ON THE HILL By Dan Needles
This play is a rich, funny and moving family drama about life on the home-farm,
complete with its nostalgia for the way things used to be, and the struggles for succession.
AUGUST 7 to SEPTEMBER 6 | WORLD PREMIERE
IN THE WAKE OF WETTLAUFER By Kelly McIntosh & Gil Garratt
Created with compassion from interviews with some of those most closely affected, this
play follows fictional siblings as they learn their infirm father has been in the same home
as Nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer. A hard-hitting but life affirming story of hope for change.
SEPTEMBER 11 TO SEPTEMBER 28
BED AND BREAKFAST By Mark Crawford
From the playwright of last year’s sold out comedy The New Canadian Curling Club
comes a slap-down drag ‘em out comedy about being truly “out” in small town Ontario
for a limited run.
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