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Blyth Festival production history

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Blyth Festival, located in Blyth, Ontario, Canada, specializes in the production and promotion of Canadian plays. The following is a chronological list of the productions that have been staged as part of the Festival since its inception. World Premieres have also been noted.

Contents

1975

  • The Mousetrap - by Agatha Christie
  • Mostly in Clover (World Premiere)- by Harry J. Boyle

    • 1976

  • The Blood Is Strong (World Premiere)- by Lister Sinclair
  • How I Met My Husband (World Premiere)- by Alice Munro
  • Mostly in Clover - by Harry J. Boyle
  • Shape(World Premiere) - by Jim Schaefer

    • 1977

  • A Summer Burning(World Premiere) - by Anne Chislett from the novel by Harry J. Boyle
  • The Blood Is Strong - by Lister Sinclair
  • The Blyth Memorial History Show (World Premiere)- by Jim Schaefer
  • The Shortest Distance Between Two Points (World Premiere) - by Keith Roulston

    • 1978

  • The Huron Tiger(World Premiere) - by Peter Colley
  • His Own Boss (World Premiere) - by Keith Roulston
  • The School Show(World Premiere) - by Ted Johns
  • Gwendoline (World Premiere)- by James W. Nichol
  • Two Miles Off - by the Theatre Network

    • 1979

  • This Foreign Land(World Premiere) - by Patricia Mahoney
  • I'll Be Back For You Before Midnight (World Premiere)- by Peter Colley
  • McGillicuddy's Lost Weekend (World Premiere)- by Keith Roulston
  • Child (World Premiere)- by James W. Nichol
  • The Death of the Donnellys - by Theatre Passe Muraille and Ted Johns

    • 1980

  • John and the Missus - by Gordon Pinsent
  • St. Sam of the Nuke Pile(World Premiere) - by Ted Johns
  • i'll be back for you before midnight - by Peter Colley
  • The Life That Jack Built (World Premiere)- by David Fox and Janet Amos

    • 1981

  • He Won't Come In From The Barn - by Ted Johns
  • Quiet In The Land(World Premiere) - by Anne Chislett
  • Love or Money (World Premiere) - by Carol Bolt
  • The Tomorrow Box - by Anne Chislett
  • Fire On Ice (World Premiere)- by Keith Roulston

    • 1982

  • Down North(World Premiere) - by Janet Amos
  • Heads You Lose(World Premiere) - by Peter Colley
  • La Sagouine - by Antonine Maillet
  • Country Hearts(World Premiere) - by Ted Johns and John Roby
  • Quiet In The Land - by Anne Chislett

    • 1983

  • Nobody's Child (World Premiere)- by Janice Wiseman and Holden Jones
  • My Wild Irish Rose (World Premiere)- by Janet Amos
  • Tighten The Traces, Haul In The Reins - by Robbie O'Neill
  • Naked On The North Shore - by Ted Johns
  • The Innocent And The Just - by Gratien Gélinas
  • The Tomorrow Box - by Anne Chislett

    • 1984

  • Garrison's Garage(World Premiere) - by Ted Johns
  • A Spider In The House(World Premiere) - by Brian Tremlay
  • Cake-Walk(World Premiere) - by Colleen Curran
  • Blue City (World Premiere) - by Layne Coleman
  • Country Hearts - by Ted Johns and John Roby

    • 1985

  • Polderland(World Premiere) - by Brian Wade
  • Moose County (World Premiere)- by Colleen Curran
  • Beaux Gestes and Beautiful Deeds - by Marie-Lynn Hammond
  • Primrose School District 109 (World Premiere)- by Ted Galay
  • Garrison's Garage - by Ted Johns

    • 1986

  • Another Season's Promise (World Premiere) - by Anne Chislett and Keith Roulston
  • Drift - by Rex Deverell
  • Gone To Glory (World Premiere)- by Suzanne Finlay
  • Lilly, Alta. (World Premiere)- by Kenneth Dybat
  • Cake-Walk - by Colleen Curran

    • 1987

  • Girls In The Gang (World Premiere) - by John Roby and Raymond Storey
  • Miss Balmoral of the Bayview (World Premiere)- by Colleen Curran
  • Bush Fire (World Premiere) - by Laurie Fyffe
  • Another Season's Promise - by Anne Chislett and Keith Roulston
  • Bordertown Café (World Premiere) - by Kelly Rebar

    • 1988

  • The Cookie War (World Premiere)- by Kathleen McDonnell
  • The Mail Order Bride - by Robert Clinton
  • Lucien - by Marshall Button
  • Fires In The Night (World Premiere)- by David S. Craig
  • Bordertown Café - by Kelly Rebar

    • 1989

  • Perils of Persephone (World Premiere)- by Dan Needles
  • Sticks and Stones (part 1) by James Reaney
  • The Right One (World Premiere) - by Bryan Wade
  • The Dreamland (World Premiere) - by Raymond Storey and John Roby
  • The Mail Order Bride - by Robert Clinton

    • 1990

  • Local Talent (World Premiere) - by Collen Curran
  • Albertine in Five Times - by Michel Tremblay
  • A Field of Flowers (World Premiere) - by Laurie Fyffe
  • The Perils of Persephone - by Dan Needles
  • Firefly (World Premiere) - by Carol Sinclair with music by John Alcorn

    • 1991

  • Two Brothers (World Premiere) - by Ted Johns
  • Barbershop Quartet (World Premiere) - by Layne Coleman
  • The Stone Angel - by James W. Nichol based on the novel by Margaret Laurence
  • End Of The World Romance (World Premiere)- by Sean Dixon
  • Cornflower Blue (World Premiere) - by Kelly Rebar

    • 1992

  • The Puff 'n' Blow Boys - by Valoreyne Brandt Jenkins
  • The Hometown Boy (World Premiere)- by Robert Clinton
  • Back Up and Push - or The Confessions of a Reformed Cynic (World Premiere) - by Ted Johns
  • The Glorious 12th (World Premiere)- by Raymond Storey
  • Yankee Notions (World Premiere)- by Anne Chislett
  • I'll Be Back Before Midnight - by Peter Colley

    • 1993

  • Many Hands (World Premiere) - by Dale Hamilton
  • Ceili House (World Premiere)- by Colleen Curran
  • Safe Haven (World Premiere)- by Mary-Colin Chisholm
  • The Old Man's Band (World Premiere) - by John Roby
  • Web (World Premiere)- by Rosalind Goldsmith
  • The Glorious 12th - by Raymond Storey

    • 1994

  • Glengarry School Days (World Premiere) - by Anne Chislett
  • He Won't Come In From The Barn - by Ted Johns
  • The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon - by W.O. Mitchell
  • Bouncing Back (World Premiere)- by Suzanne Finlay

    • 1995

  • Ballad for a Rum Runner's Daughter (World Premiere)- book & lyrics by Laurie Fyffe and music by Beth Barley
  • This Year, Next Year (World Premiere)- by Norah Harding
  • The Tomorrow Box - by Anne Chislett
  • Jake's Place (World Premiere) - by Ted Johns
  • He Won't Come In From The Barn - by Ted Johns

    • 1996

  • Barndance, Live! (World Premiere)- by Paul Thompson
  • Ma Belle Mabel - by Cindy Cowan
  • Villa Eden (World Premiere) - by Colleen Curran
  • Fireworks (World Premiere)- by Gordon Portman

    • 1997

  • Quiet in the Land - by Anne Chislett
  • Booze Days in a Dry County (World Premiere)directed by Paul Thompson
  • There's Nothing In The Paper (World Premiere) - by David Scott
  • The Melville Boys - by Norm Foster
  • Barndance, Live! - by Paul Thompson
  • Overboard! (World Premiere) - by Deborah Kimmett

    • 1998

  • Yesteryear - by Joanna McClelland Glass
  • Wilbur County Blues (World Premiere)- by Andrew Moodie
  • Thirteen Hands - by Carol Shields
  • Jobs, Jobs, Jobs (World Premiere) - by Keith Roulston
  • Hot Flashes (World Premiere) - by Paul Ledoux and John Roby

    • 1999

  • That Summer (World Premiere) - by David French
  • Big Box (World Premiere) - by David Carley
  • The Great School Crisis of ‘99 (World Premiere) - by Ted Johns
  • Every Dream (World Premiere) - by James W. Nichol
  • When the Reaper Calls - by Peter Colley

    • 2000

  • Death of the Hired Man (World Premiere)- by Paul Thompson
  • Anne adapted for the stage by Paul Ledoux
  • Corker - by Wendy Lill
  • The Drawer Boy - by Michael Healey
  • Stolen Lives - the Albert Walker Story (World Premiere) - by Peter Colley
  • When the Reaper Calls - by Peter Colley

    • 2001

  • The Outdoor Donnellys (World Premiere) - by Paul Thompson and Janet Amos
  • The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux - by Gratien Gelinas
  • Cruel Tears - by Ken Mitchell and Humphrey & the Dumptrucks
  • McGillicuddy (World Premiere) - by Keith Roulston
  • Sometime, Never (World Premiere) - by Norah Harding
  • Corner Green (World Premiere) - by Gordon Pinsent

    • 2002

  • The Outdoor Donnellys - by Paul Thompson and Janet Amos
  • Goodbye, Piccadilly (World Premiere) - by Douglas Bowie
  • Filthy Rich - by George F. Walker
  • The Drawer Boy - by Michael Healey
  • Barnboozled: He Won't Come In From the Barn, part II (World Premiere) - by Ted Johns

    • 2003

  • The Perilous Pirate's Daughter (World Premiere) - by Anne Chislett & David Archibald
  • Leaving Home - by David French
  • Hippie (World Premiere) - by Jonathan Garfinkel, Kelly McIntosh and Paul Thompson
  • Having Hope at Home (World Premiere) - by David S. Craig
  • Barnboozled: He Won't Come In From the Barn, part II - by Ted Johns

    • 2004

  • The Outdoor Donnellys - by Paul Thompson and Janet Amos
  • Heat Wave - by Michel Marc Bouchard
  • Salt-Water Moon - by David French
  • Spirit of the Narrows (World Premiere) - by Anne Lederman
  • Cricket & Claudette (World Premiere) - by Ted Johns
  • Test Drive (World Premiere) - by Dave Carley

    • 2005

  • The Ginkgo Tree - by Lee MacDougall
  • Powers and Gloria (World Premiere) - by Keith Roulston
  • The Thirteenth One (World Premiere) - by Denyse Gervais Regan
  • I'll be back before midnight - by Peter Colley
  • Spirit of the Narrows - by Anne Lederman

    • 2006

  • Ballad of Stompin' Tom (World Premiere) - by David Scott, songs by Stompin' Tom Connors
  • Lost Heir (World Premiere) - by Sean Dixon
  • Another Season's Harvest (World Premiere) - by Anne Chislett & Keith Roulston
  • Schoolhouse (World Premiere) - by Leanna Brodie

    • 2007

  • The Eyes of Heaven (World Premiere) - by Beverley Cooper
  • Queen Milli of Galt - by Gary Kirkham
  • World Without Shadows - by Lance Woolaver
  • Reverend Jonah (World Premiere) - by Paul Ciufo
  • Ballad of Stompin' Tom - by David Scott, songs by Stompin' Tom Connors

    • 2008

  • Against the Grain (World Premiere) - by Carolyn Hay
  • Harvest (World Premiere) - by Ken Cameron
  • Courting Johanna (World Premiere) - by Marcia Johnson, based on Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
  • The Steven Truscott Project - by Beverley Cooper

    • 2009

  • The Bootblack Orator (World Premiere) by Ted Johns
  • The Mail Order Bride by Robert Clinton
  • Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad by Michael Melski
  • The Nuttalls (World Premiere) by Michael Healey
  • Innocence Lost: A Play About Steven Truscott (World Premiere) by Beverley Cooper

    • 2010

  • A Killing Snow (World Premiere) by Paul Ciufo
  • Bordertown Cafe by Kelly Rebar
  • Pearl Gidley (World Premiere) by Gary Kirkham
  • The Book of Esther (World Premiere) by Leanna Brodie

    • 2011

  • Hometown (World Premiere) by Jean Marc Dalpe, Mieko Ouchi, Mansel Robinson, Martha Ross, Peter Smith & Des Walsh
  • Vimy by Vern Thiessen
  • Rope's End by Douglas Bowie
  • Early August (World Premiere) by Kate Lynch

    • 2012

  • Dear Johnny Deere (World Premiere) by Ken Cameron, Based on the songs of Fred Eaglesmith
  • Having Hope at Home by David S. Craig
  • The Lonely Diner: Al Capone in Euphemia Township (World Premiere) by Beverley Cooper
  • The Devil We Know (World Premiere) by Cheryl Foggo and Clem Martini

    • 2013

  • Dear Johnny Deere by Ken Cameron, Based on the songs of Fred Eaglesmith
  • Beyond the Farm Show (World Premiere) by The Collective
  • Yorkville - The Musical (World Premiere) Book and Lyrics by Carolyn Hay; Music by Tom Szczesniak
  • Garrison's Garage by Ted Johns
  • Prairie Nurse (World Premiere) by Marie Beath Badian
  • Falling: A Wake by Gary Kirkham

    • 2014

  • Kitchen Radio (World Premiere) Book by Marion de Vries; Music & Lyrics by Marion de Vries and David Archibald
  • Billy Bishop Goes to War Written and composed by John MacLachlan Gray in collaboration with Eric Peterson
  • Stag and Doe (World Premiere) by Mark Crawford
  • St. Anne's Reel (World Premiere) by Gil Garratt

    • 2015

  • Seeds Annabel Soutar
  • Wilberforce Hotel (World Premiere) Sean Dixon
  • Fury (World Premiere) Book and Lyrics by Peter Smith; Music by Samuel Shouldice
  • Mary's Wedding Stephen Massicotte

    • 2016

  • Our Beautiful Sons: Remembering Matthew Dinning (World Premiere) Christopher Morris
  • The Birds and the Bees (World Premiere) Mark Crawford
  • If Truth Be Told (World Premiere) Beverley Cooper
  • The Last Donnelly Standing (World Premiere) Paul Thompson and Gil Garratt

    • References

    Blyth Festival production history Wikipedia
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