The Blyth Festival Podcast

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Back in 1981, the Blyth Festival premiered an unusual play about a group of immigrant Amish farmers struggling with Canada’s introduction of Conscription in 1917. </p><p>Against all...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>You may know bestselling author Emma Donoghue for her 2010 novel Room (later an Oscar-nominated movie), or her most recent book, The Paris Express.</p><p>But Emma is also an accomplished...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>What do you suppose would happen if two Indigenous dudes decided to dig up the bones of Sir John A. Macdonald, and hold them ransom until the Canadian government returned something that had...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>We’re back! And we’ve got the scoop on everything you’ll want to see this summer at Canada’s theatre - the Blyth Festival.</p><p>Podcast fave and Blyth Fest Artistic Director Gil Garratt is...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>We all know about Rosie the Riveter and the women who kept our factories afloat during WWII. But did you know thousands of young women (some as young as 16) took to our fields and farms as...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Rural Ontario isn't exactly known as a hotbed of paranormal activity. But it turns out Canada's last official charge of witchcraft was laid right here in Huron County. In 1919.</p><p>Yes, you...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Fifty years ago this summer, an actor, a playwright and a newspaper editor walked into a bar .... </p><p>OK, kidding, it wasn't a bar. But James Roy, Anne Chislett and Keith Roulston DID sit...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>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...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Need help choosing what to see at Blyth this summer? We've got you covered!<br/><br/>Playwright, actor, and avid Huron-County historian Kelly McIntosh walks us through all six shows on Blyth's...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>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?</p><p>Well, buckle up. The Blyth Festival’s...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>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...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>Part two of our in-depth conversation with Blyth Festival Artistic Director Gil Garratt about his revival of James Reaney’s landmark Donnelly trilogy.<br/><br/></p><p>Today Gil tells us about...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>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. </p><p>This shocking piece of...

<p>Send us Fan Mail</p><p>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...