BLYTH FESTIVAL – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2013 Season Press Release GRAB A COFFEE WITH A PLAYWRIGHT IN BLYTH The summer is wrapping up quickly, (too quickly for some) and in Blyth, we are trying to slow down time to enjoy the last few beautiful nights to come. We are inviting some wonderfully talented playwrights to come and chat in our new series Coffee with a Playwright starting this Friday, August 16th and Tuesday, August 21st hosted at the Queen’s Bakery in Blyth. Each session will be for an hour. The time and energy that is spent producing new Canadian theatre is an interesting and challenging process and is considered a mystery too many. Where does their inspiration come from? How do they start? How do they know when they are done? Since the Festival’s first curtain rose in 1975, Blyth has always been, “a place of creativity and has inspired playwrights… to develop stories from Huron County. The Festival provides the playwrights with the opportunity to live, write and research within the community,” explains new Artistic Director, Marion de Vries who will be hosting this interesting series. “New play development is so unique to Blyth,” continues de Vries, “we literally tell the “stories from where we live” and not many other theatre companies in Ontario do that. The Blyth Festival is world renowned for our world premieres!” Coffee with a Playwright is an opportunity for our community to meet the people writing the plays they see onstage in Blyth, and for the playwrights to meet the community they are writing about. “One of the most fabulous parts about the Blyth Festival is that the audience gets to meet the actors after the show, but this is a chance to meet the people who have written what they have just seen onstage,” states de Vries. Informal, yet informative, the first Coffee with a Playwright will be hosted by The Queen’s Bakery in Blyth and will feature playwright Christopher Morris and the following Tuesday will feature Anusree Roy. The series will welcome a variety of playwrights in the many stages of completion, and will even include two book launches of Playwrights who have had their work premiere on the Blyth Festival Stage! The dates include; August 16, 2013 at 5pm – Queen’s Bakery with Marion de Vries August 21, 2013 at 5:30pm – Queen’s Bakery with Anusree Roy August 27, 2013 at 5pm – Queen’s Bakery with Gil Garratt August 30, 2013 at 10am – Queen’s Bakery, BOOK LAUNCH with Leanna Brodie (The Book of Esther) As your summer comes to a close, be sure to take some time for yourself to hear some fascinating new work about the people and places you know and enjoy an evening of discussion. The Blyth Festival would like to thank The Queen’s Bakery and special events sponsors HGMI, Howick Insurance and Economical Insurance.
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