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PAGE 2. BLYTH FESTIVAL SALUTE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28/29, 2006.
1 New
Canadian
Plays
Marking 100
world premieres
With 4 more world premieres this
year the Blyth Festival reaches rare
milestone of 100 plays seen first on
the Blyth Memorial Hall stage
Back in 1975 when James Roy
founded the Blyth Festival, he had a
vision of producing plays that spoke
to the small town and rural people of
the region. There was only one
problem: there were no plays that
spoke specifically to the rural
experience. The solution was to
write the required plays.
As a result, the Blyth Festival has
become renowned as a producer of
original plays, but not just for that
local audience. Some of those plays
have touched people on a much
wider basis and have gone around
the world to Japan, England,
Australia, Romania and various
parts of the United States. In 2006
the Festival will post an incredible
landmark with its 100th world
premiere. To understand the
significance one has to realize that
when the Festival began, one would
be hard pressed to find 100
Canadians plays in total.
Artistic Director Eric Coates has
programmed four premieres in this,
the 32nd season of the Festival
starting with the biography of
Canadian music icon Stompin' Tom
Connors.
The Ballad
of Stompin' Tom
London playwright (and Seaforth
native) David Scott delves into the
colourful and moving past of the
singer-songwriter in The Ballad of
Stompin' Tom. One of Canada's most
admired actors, Randy Hughson,
portrays Tom Connors from his
lonely childhood to his triumphs on
stage.
The Ballad of Stompin' Tom,
directed by Coates, previews June 27
with the gala opening June 29. It
runs in repertory until Aug. 8.
Lost Heir
Sean Dixon's Lost Heir, is a
wide-ranging story in which there
are repercussions when a young
Mennonite woman accepts an
invitation to join a small summer
theatre company against her stern
father's consent. Along the way a
petty thief falls in love with her, he
turns to a local mystic to seek
guidance on how to woo her and a
group of local ruffians threatens to
sabotage the theatre company's
production.
Directed by a legendary director,
Listowel-area native Paul
Thompson, Lost Heir begins
previews July 5, opens July 7 and
plays in repertory until Aug. 8.
Another Season's Harvest
In 1986 two of Blyth Festival's
co-founders Anne Chislett and Keith
Roulston, both playwrights, joined
forces to create Another Season's
Promise, a powerful story of the
Purves family's fight to save their
historic family farm in the face of the
high-interest crisis of the 1980s. The
play was a smash hit, was brought
back for a second season and toured
nationally.
In 2006 Chislett and Roulston
return with Another Season's
Harvest, dealing with the efforts of
a new generation of the Purves clan
to survive the BSE crisis that strikes
at the heart of their successful beef
operation.
Another Season's Harvest stars
popular Festival stalwarts Jerry
Franken and Hughson as two
generations of the Purves family and
their differing views on the future of
producing food, our most precious
resource. Directed by Gil Garratt, it
previews Aug. 2 and opens Aug. 4,
then plays in repertory until Sept. 2.
Schoolhouse
The celebrated 100th premiere
will be Leanna Brodie's bittersweet
look at the life of an old-time
schoolteacher: Schoolhouse.
Miss Linton is only 18 years old
when she becomes the new teacher
in a schoolhouse full of eager
youngsters and underachieving "big
boys" in 1937. A training school boy
joins the class, adding tension to the
mix. Miss Linton must decide if she
should bow to local pressure and
allow the former delinquent to be
run out of town or heed her own
instincts and foster his remarkable
creativity.
First Festival world
premiere: Mostly in
Clover, July 9, 1975
Schoolhouse, directed by Coates,
previews Aug. 9 with a gala opening
and celebration of the 100th world
premiere on August 11. It plays in
repertory until Sept. 2.
Because the Festival uses a
repertory system, it's possible to
attend one Bonanza Weekend, Aug.
11-13 and see all four plays in three
days.