Blyth Festival Celebrates 50th Season This Year

by Bob Montgomery

The Blyth Festival will mark a significant milestone this summer... fifty years of bringing great Canadian plays to Blyth Festival audiences.

General manager Rachael King says the season will open with The Farm Show Then and Now on June 12th on the outdoor Harvest Stage. The first indoor performance will be Saving Graceland by Blyth Artistic Director Gil Garratt and it will be held in the Blyth Memorial Hall.

King says it's a very special milestone that celebrates the coming together of a bunch of brave and courageous community volunteers with a dream of building a theatre that would put local Canadian stories on the stage. Fifty years later, that dream burns brighter than ever. All of the plays in the 2024 season were created and developed in Huron County and tell the stories, both fictional and historic, of lives lived in this community. Having welcomed more than a million patrons through the doors, the Blyth Festival has grown into a hub of Canadian playwriting, boasting more than 150 world premieres. King says the season will feature six fantastic plays, indoors and out. They'll also have several special events and activities to mark the occasion.

King says tickets for specific seats for the 2024 season aren't on sale yet but people can buy passes for the 2024 season. She notes prices for those passes will be going up on January 1st. King says more information about the 2024 season will be on their website shortly.