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Young Company puts its clown show on stage
Hitting the stage
This year’s Blyth Festival Young Company production, called Hatchlings and Hayseeds, took
to the stage on Wednesday and will run through to Saturday. A clown show, the production
attempts to tell stories without the use of speaking. Above, a first date plays out between Liv
Hussey, left, and Isaac VanAaken, centre, while Liam Morley, right, provides some musical
accompaniment. Below, Lydia Newcastle took some extreme measures to hunt a fly that made
her room its temporary home. (Denny Scott photos)
While the Young Company’s
newest production, called Hayseeds
and Hatchlings (A Huron County
Clown Show), may not be the most
verbose production to date, that
doesn’t mean the play lacks a
message.
The clown-style play was
performed by an all-new Young
Company troupe with no members
returning from previous years.
Using very few words and relying
on exaggerated emotional and
physical responses, the group brings
together a slate of different dream-
like pieces with some running story
lines throughout.
Don’t think, however, that clown
means everything will be funny.
While there is plenty of comedy,
there are also themes of love and
loss brought to life with almost no
language whatsoever.
The show also features a lot of
crowd interaction, from the audience
being dragged to stage, invited up on
stage or armed for war and asked to
take part in the show.
The audience is also rewarded for
enjoying themselves, though, no
spoilers here about how that works.
The stage is minimalistic which
further enforces the need for the
emotional and physical responses to
be spot on, which the troupe
manages.
While the story makes the play
enjoyable and the comedy makes it
funny, what really makes the play
fun, is that it’s apparent the actors
are enjoying themselves too.
The smiles aren’t forced, they
aren’t faked and, despite the fact that
the show is done in clown-style, they
aren’t painted on.
The emotions that aren’t happy are
well acted, but when the actors are
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