Conversations with artists, friends and supporters of Canada's Blyth Festival - Canada's experts in telling Canada's stories.
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Canadian Theatre Icon James Roy on the Founding of the Blyth Festival
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Fifty years ago this summer, an actor, a playwright and a newspaper editor walked into a bar .... OK, kidding, it wasn't a bar. But James Roy, Anne Chislett and Keith Roulston DID sit down in Keith's living room and decide to start a summer theatre festival in Blyth, Ontario. Miraculously, nobody told them they were crazy. Fifty years later, theatr…
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The Farm Show Then & Now with Miles Potter and Gil Garratt
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In the long, hot summer of 1972, a group of barefoot Toronto actors made their way to an abandoned farm house in Clinton, Ontario. There they began a theatrical experiment that would result in a collective creation known as The Farm Show. Quite possibly the most influential play in Canadian-theatre history, The Farm Show became a massive run-away h…
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2024 Blyth Festival Season Preview with Kelly McIntosh
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Need help choosing what to see at Blyth this summer? We've got you covered! Playwright, actor, and avid Huron-County historian Kelly McIntosh walks us through all six shows on Blyth's 2024 playbill in this episode. Kelly has appeared on stages across the country, and will be familiar to Blyth audiences as co-writer of In The Wake of Wettlaufer and …
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A Huron County Christmas Carol: A shockingly relevant re-telling of the Dickens classic
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Have you ever thought A Christmas Carol is just a bit … quaint? Old fashioned? A nice period piece, but without much relevance to the modern world? Well, buckle up. The Blyth Festival’s Huron County Christmas Carol drops the classic story right into modern-day Huron County. Here Ebenezer Scrooge has bought up every feed mill in southwestern Ontario…
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Playwright Andrew Moodie and the story of Canada's Real McCoy
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Actor Andrew Moodie burst onto the scene as a playwright in 1995 with Riot, an exploration of the 1992 Yonge Street Riot that followed the Rodney King uprisings in LA. Since then, Andrew has written many more plays bringing Black Canadian stories and voices to our stages. These include The Real McCoy, the story of a gifted young African Canadian en…
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Artistic Director Gil Garratt: MORE Things Donnellys, Part 2
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Part two of our in-depth conversation with Blyth Festival Artistic Director Gil Garratt about his revival of James Reaney’s landmark Donnelly trilogy. Today Gil tells us about the design and staging of his new productions, and about the changes he’s made to Reaney’s original works for this production. He also talks about the Blyth audience’s partic…
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Artistic Director Gil Garratt: All Things Donnellys, Part 1
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In the wee small hours of February 4, 1880, an angry mob descended on a farmstead in Lucan. An hour later, five people were dead, and the farmhouse was in flames. This shocking piece of Canadian history – known as the Donnelly Massacres – was first dramatized in a trio of plays written by James Reaney in the 1970s. All three shows have been abridge…
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Playwright Matt Murray on his new comedy, Chronicles of Sarnia
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Matt Murray started writing plays and musicals after a 20-year career as a musical-theatre performer – and he’s never looked back. His new comedy, Chronicles of Sarnia, opened this summer at the Blyth Festival. Matt and host Joanne Wallace discuss the craft of writing comedy for the stage and the role the audience plays in that process. Matt also s…
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