Clinton News Record, 2016-07-20, Page 1818 News Record • Wednesday, July 20, 2016
Fact or fiction, truth or lies, literature or smut;
who decides what we can or cannot read?
In 1978, a group of puri-
tanical thinkers who
called themselves
"Renaissance Canada"
successfully convinced
the Huron County School
Board to put three books
on its list for banning, and
finally voted to forbid any
student at one of the five
high schools in the county
from reading Margaret
Laurence's iconic, Gover-
nor General's Award-win-
ning, The Diviners (argua-
bly one of the single most
influential Canadian
books of the 20th cen-
tury). At the same time,
Alice Munro's Lives of
Girls and Women was
removed from the Peter-
borough high school
curriculum.
This real life flashpoint is
the inspiration for If Truth
Be Told, a gripping new
play by Beverley
Cooper receiving its world
premiere this summer at
the Blyth Festival from July
27 to Sept. 3 in Blyth's
Memorial Hall.
With If Truth Be Told, Fes-
tival favourite Beverley
Cooper (Eyes of Heaven,
Innocence Lost: A Play About
Stephen Truscott, and The
Lonely Diner: Al Capone in
Euphemia Township) has
approached this significant
moment in our Huron
County history with passion,
sympathy, and daring.
Peg Dunlop is an interna-
tionally celebrated writer,
with a long list of distin-
guished awards, living with
her family in Vancouver.
Peg is the most famous and
successful writer ever to
come out of the small town
of Wayford. In spite of her
influential career and
accomplishments, Peg is no
local heroine. Far from
being celebrated in her
hometown, many of the
locals despise her work,
and deeply resent her
writing, revealingly, about
life in Wayford.
When Peg unexpectedly
moves home, few in the
town embrace her return.
Unaware of the apparent
controversy surrounding
Peg, Wayford's eager young
high school English teacher
assigns one of Peg's books
to her Grade 13 class, and
invites the writer to come
and speak at the school.
As news of Peg's return
spreads, and details of her
book emerge, a group of
concerned parents, led by a
local pastor, endeavour to
have her book banned. As
the townspeople begin to
choose sides, Peg befriends a
teenage girl named Jennifer,
who comes to learn the dif-
ference between telling the
truth and telling a good
story.
Starring as Peg Dunlop is fes-
tival favourite Catherine Fitch,
most recently seen in the festi-
val's season opener, OurBeauti-
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Also in the cast are J. D.
Nicholsen, Rebecca Auer-
bach, Meghan Chalm-
ers and Anita La Selva who is
making her Blyth Festival
debut.
Playwright Beverley
Cooper is a writer, actor and
teacher. She has written for
TV, film and extensively for
CBC radio drama, twice
being nominated for Writers'
Guild of Canada Awards. She
has won multiple awards for
her work.
Over 35 years of directing
across Canada, Miles Pot-
ter has directed numerous
productions for the Blyth
Festival, most recently, 2014s
hit comedy Stag and Doe, as
well as Beverley Cooper's
previous hit Innocence Lost:
A Play about Steven Truscott.
His directing credits include
productions at the Stratford
Festival, The Grand Theatre,
The National Arts Centre,
Canadian Stage, Mirvish
Productions, among many
others. He has also been a
guest director and teacher at
the National Theatre School,
George Brown College, St.
Clair College, Fanshawe Col-
lege, Dalhousie University,
and the University of Mis-
souri at Kansas City.
The design team for If
Truth Be Told: Steve Lucas is
designing the set and
Photo courtesy of Terry Manzo
Beverley Cooper's If Truth Be Told will have its world premiere at
the Blyth Festival this summer from July 27 to Sept. 3.
lighting, long time festival
favourite Shawn Kerwin is
designing the cos-
tumes, Beth Kates is design-
ing the projections, and Lyon
Smith is the sound
designer. Crystal Mac-
Donell is the stage manager
and Christina Cicko is the
assistant stage manager.
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Directed by Miles Potter
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July 28 - Preview at 8 p.m.
July 29 - Open-
ing night at 8 p.m.
August 18 - An informal
question and answer "Talk
Back" with cast members
follows the 2 p.m. matinee
September 3 - Closing
performance at 2 p.m.
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