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— Stops Along ‘Tfte Way '94 —
Wingham plans big party
By Bonnie Gropp
Everyone's coming home for a party.
As Canada marks its 127th birthday, the
town of Wingham will be in the midst of its
own mammoth homecoming party.
Doug Layton, chairman of the
homecoming committee says a full schedule
of events is planned to entertain all ages over
the five-day period, which begins
Wednesday evening, June 29 at the Monster
Bingo. Brainstorming since August of 1992
the committee has put together "quite an
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In 1982 Blyth Festival presented Down North, penned by Artistic Director
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the production.
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In From The Barn, starring her husband,
writer-actor Ted Johns. The story of Aylmer
Clarke, the frustrated Huron County farmer
who escapes from the fast-paced modem
world by retreating to his barn was first
created by Mr. Johns and other actors at
Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto in the
1970s. Later Mr. Johns rewrote the play and
brought it, complete with a cast that includes
live cows, pigs and chickens, to the Blyth
stage in 1977 and again in 1981.
Mr. Johns will be updating the script to
take in the concerns of Aylmer with the way
the world has changed since then. The play
will also feature Ms Amos as Aylmer's wife.
He Won't Come In From The Barn opens
June 29.
Bouncing Back, by Suzanne Finlay, is the
second world premiere of the season. Ms
Finlay, who wrote Gone to Glory for the
Festival in 1986, creates a memorable
character in Kale, a feisty 80-year-old who
finds herself stuck in the hospital alone and
unwanted. Her 40ish daughter Brenda, who
has problems of her own including a tangled
love life, comes to try to straighten out her
mother's affairs, including a house that
resembles a disaster area. The three-
character play opens July 20.
The work of one of Canada's most famous
writers, W. O. Mitchell will be presented for
the first time on the Blyth stage when The
Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon
opens as the final production of the season
Aug. 3.
Wullie MacCrimmon is a small town
shoemaker who longs to win the Canadian
curling championship. He meets O. Cloulie
who promises to deliver his wish as part of a
bargain. Wullie finds himself challenged to
the curling match of this life. Fear, treachery
and religious fanaticism conspire to defeat
his team as he curls for his soul against a
rink of history's most infamous villains.
Mr. Mitchell's play first appeared as a
short story in 1950, then as a one-act play in
1966. In 1979 the first full-length production
first opened at Theatre Calgary. The play has
entertained audiences in many parts of
Canada since.
In this, and future seasons, Ms Amos
hopes to put the theatre back on a strong
fooling for the Festival's third decade. After
all, if an organization this big could grow in
an unlikely place like Blyth, solving the
problems of the past few years seems to be
simple by comparison.
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