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Good Luck - Blyth Festival - 2002 Season
BLYTH FESTIVAL SALUTE, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2002. PAGE 19.
Festival opening nights often memorable occasions
Blyth Festival audiences have an
opportunity to savour something no
other area summer theatre offers:
the chance to see important new
plays performed for the very first
time.
The 2002 season promises a
bumper crop of opportunities to say
"I saw it first in Blyth" as Artistic
Director Anne Chislett gives two
new plays their premieres and
returns two hit plays to the theatre
obvious that a thunder storm was
about to descend.
Within minutes stage managers
called a halt to the show and hurried
actors and audience alike into the
nearby large barn erected by the
Huron Pioneer Thresher and Hobby
Association. There as the thunder
rolled and the rain drummed on the
steel roof, the actors valiantly
continued their performance. The
audience, knowing they were among
that gave them their start..
It's a process the Festival has
become known for over its 28
season. Counting this season, 85
plays have been premiered on the
Blyth stage and many of those have
gone on to be performed in other
theatres across Canada or around the
world.
It makes for magical moments,
particularly when an opening night
audience realizes they're in on the
beginning of something big.
Last year's opening of The
Outdoor Donnellys was memorable
for more than the fact that the
audience knew it was about to
witness a landmark production. A
half-hour into the grandstand show
the wind increased and it became
the lucky who would be able to
attend the sold-out run of the show,
stood and applauded the actors at the
end. (This year a special "rain
version" of the play.)
There was excitement of a
different kind on the night back in
1979 when Peter Colley's I'll Be
Back Before Midnight was
premiered. The story is famous now
of how Colley, living in London, had
stayed overnight in the East
Wawanosh farmhouse of Festival
founder James Roy and been
spooked by the isolation and
complete darkness of the country.
Midnight, the play that resulted
from that visit, spooked a lot more
people that opening night and
became the first really big, exported
brought on by the stresses of World
War 1. The audience was right in
guessing they'd seen something very
special. Quiet in the Land went on to
win the Governor General's Award
for drama and be performed in most
major theatres in Canada as well as
in New York.
This year's new plays include
Goodbye, Piccadilly by TV and film
writer Douglas Bowie and
Bamboozled: He Won't Come In
Fr-0171 The Barn Part II Ted John's
sequel to his enormously popular
barn comedy, plays that are certain
to create their own ,special opening
night memories.
As if the first opening night wasn't
exciting enough, the play was
remounted for the 1980 season and
that night the audience was so loud
in its applause (and foot stomping) at
the curtain call that intercom
communications between the stage
management booth and the
backstage crew was impossible.
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Memorable beginnings
Last year's opening night production of The Outdoor Donnellys (here showing Robert Kennedy
and Eric Coates jousting) was interrupted by a thunder storm, just adding to the long number of
memorable opening nights. — photo by Off Broadway Photography.
hit at the Festival. So excited was
London Free Press critic Doug Bale
that he came to the cast party with a
copy of the review he had phoned in
to the paper. It predicted the play
would end up on Broadway.
Midnight never did play Broadway
but its box office has grossed more
than $8 million around the world
from Australia to Romania, it was
made into a movie, and changed the
life of Colley forever.
The opening of Midnight was the
Festival's second magical moment.
The audience on July 9, 1975, the
very first opening night, realized
they had just witnessed the
beginning of something big. They
were right, of course. A quarter
century later the Festival has placed
an indelible mark on Canadian
theatre as a whole, and changed the
face of the Village of Blyth.
That kind of excited buzz that
makes people want to stay and stay
at the post-show opening night
reception, was evident at the opening
of Quiet in the Land, Anne Chislett's
story of conflict in an Amish family