# Blyth Festival production history

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.

## 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 Slammers (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

## 2017

* Mr. New Year's Eve: A night with Guy Lombardo (World Premiere) David Scott
* The Berlin Blues Drew Hayden Taylor
* The Pigeon King (World Premiere) The company (Rebecca Auerbach, Jason Chesworth, Gil Garratt, Gemma James Smith, George Meanwell, J.D. Nicholsen, Birgitte Solem, Severn Thompson)
* Ipperwash (World Premiere) Falen Johnson and Jessica Carmichael

## 2018

* The Pigeon King (World Premiere) The company (Rebecca Auerbach, Jason Chesworth, Gil Garratt, Gemma James Smith, George Meanwell, J.D. Nicholsen, Birgitte Solem, Severn Thompson)
* The New Canadian Curling Club (World Premiere) Mark Crawford
* Judith: Memories of a Lady Pig Farmer (World Premiere) Heather Davies, adapted from Judith, by Aritha van Herk
* 1837: The Farmer's Revolt Rick Salutin and Theatre Passe Muraille
* Wing Night at the Boot (World Premiere) The Company

## 2019

* Jumbo (World Premiere) - Sean Dixon
* Cakewalk - Colleen Curran
* The Team on the Hill - Dan Needles
* In the Wake of Wettlaufer (World Premiere)
* Bed and Breakfast - Mark Crawford