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PAGE 14. BLYTH FESTIVAL SALUTE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28/29, 2006.
By Bonnie Gropp
Citizen editor
Google Anne Chislett's name and
you will find more than 500 sites.
Only a handful of these will not be a
reference to the noted playwright
and founder of Blyth Festival.
The Newfoundland-born writer's
work has helped to create and build
the summer theatre's foundation of
producing some of Canada's most
influential plays. Works like the
award-winning Quiet In The Land,
The Tomorrow Box and Another
Season's Promise, written with
Keith Roulston, have helped to bring
international recognition to the
Festival.
This season, Chislett, who served
five seasons as the Festival's artistic
director, is back with Another
Season's Harvest. She and Roulston
have teamed again to tell the story of
the Purves family 20 years later.
Chislett's Japanese
fans to visit Blyth
Anne Chislett's Tomorrow Box
has resonated with the theatre
community in Japan, having played
to hundreds of thousands over the
years.
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Anne Chislett: same family
faces new challenges.
While Promise dealt with the
struggles of many to hang on to their
farms during the 1980s, Harvest
looks at the problems brought on by
BSE and low-commodity prices.
It was because of these current
crises that Chislett was approached
about revisiting the Purveses. "Linda
Moore, who directed the second
production of Promise at Blyth, had
been discussing the farm crisis and
said, 'You and Keith have to do this.'
So I got in touch with Keith and
probably sent him to talk to Eric
(Coates, artistic director)," said the
"geographically-challenged"
Chislett.
With Roulston in Blyth and
Chislett again on the east coast, the
two began a collaboration that years
ago would not have been possible.
"Keith hammered out the initial plot
ideas and characters. I took over
most of the typing and putting
scenes together primarily working
by e-mail."
Though she loves collaborations,
Chislett jokes, "They really do work
better if you're in the same room."
Working with someone, however,
makes "everything a little richer.
You start spinning ideas. Keith
always has solutions."
Though she has collaborated with
other playwrights, Chislett said
Roulston is a "particular joy"
because of their long history with the
Festival. "Though I'm sure we do
have points of conflict over who
actually does the typing."
The history with the Purves family
doesn't offer the same connection,
interestingly enough. Chislett is
quick to point out that Harvest is not
a sequel in the true sense of the
word. While she admits that for a
core group involved there will be
"resonances", she emphasizes that
"this is an entirely new play that
-stands on its own. Promise was way
too long ago for this to be a sequel.
The issues we are dealing with are
entirely different as are the
responses."
"Any similarity is the character of
the farmer in that farmers are not a
group that finds it easy to ask for
help or in effect join forces. That
was true then and now." Revisiting old
friends
In Another Season's Harvest,
playwright Anne Chislett revisits the
Purves family, as they battle
today's agricultural crisis
• Last year, Quiet in the Land,
another Chislett play which has
played across North America, also
had a production in Tokyo.
Now, for Blyth Festival's 2006
season, 20 Japanese visitors will be
attending a preview performance of
Chislett and Keith Roulston's
Another Season's Harvest.
The 'exchange' has been part of a
unique relationship initiated by
Vancouver resident Toyoshi
Yoshihara. "He's a one-man
ambassador between Canada and
Japan," said Chislett. "Blyth is very
well known among the theatre
community in Japan."
The real foundation between the
two countries was The Tomorrow
Box, said Chislett, which has played
to 200,000 people. It is currently
being performed by Hitachi.
Yoshihara has also arranged
theatre troupes to come to Blyth to
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