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BLYTH FESTIVAL SALUTE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2002. PAGE 11.
Audiences have loved Aylmer Clark for 25 years
Cows on stage
Bamboozled continues the saga of Aylmer Clark, the farmer
Won't Come in From The Barn, one of the most popular shows
The idea of cows on stage fascinated audiences in the 1970s,
installs their cows in their "barn" for the 1994 production.
Aylmer Clark does have a life In fact those bodily functions of
outside the barn and in Bamboozled: farm animals caused concerns in
He Won't Come In From the Barn, Blyth when word of the content of
Part II, he'll prove it. the show first spread in 1977. An
Ted Johns character will tackle earlier version of the show had been
new thoroughly modern issues on done in Toronto at Theatre Passe
the farm from computerized Muraille's warehouse theatre but
combines to genetically altered that was different than a classic old
organisms in this sequel to his hall dedicated to the veterans of two
hugely popular play. world wars.
Still, audiences have loved going There was also the problem of
into Aylmer's barn to visit with him how to get the cows into the
since the show first appeared in building. In those days, before more
Blyth in 1977. Aylmer had retreated recent additions to Memorial Hall,
to the barn because he was confused there was no gentle staircases that
and fed up with the way the world could be ramped to allow the cows to
was going in farming. He was visited walk in to the second-story theatre.
by a steady stream of people trying The cows were led into a crate which
to convince him it was time for him was then hoisted, using a forklift, to
to come out of the barn. the second-tloor stage door where
Part of the attraction of the show, they were out again and into their
of course, were Aylmer's new "barn".
companions in the barn: lives cows, The problem, of course, was that
pigs and chickens — and those this was not an operation that could
animals doing what animals do. be carried out every day, so the cows
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had to stay in the barn for the
duration of the run of the show. That
caused concerns about what would
happen when cows do what cows do.
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were doubters, but the system
worked and the worst fears were
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