The Blyth Festival is looking forward to hosting an enticing literary event.
Blyth Reads Alice will be held on Friday, May 9 at 8 p.m. at the Bayfield Town Hall.
This will be an evening of readings and reflection with a cast of sensational women.
Five dynamic women (and some special guests) will read from their favourite passages of Alice Munro’s work.
Blyth Festival’s artistic director, Eric Coates, will lead a lively discussion – with your participation – on Alice’s writing and its importance to the world of art.
Among the cast of sensational women are: Blythe Wilson, star of Oklahoma at the Stratford Festival; Fiona Reid, truly one of Canada’s leading ladies of theatre, television and film; Laurel Armstrong, Huron County’s own one-women cheering squad; and Tova Smith will be introduced to the audience.
Smith is a graduate of the Stratford Festival Conservatory, National Theatre School, and she will be joining the Blyth Festival’s acting company for the 2008 season.
Also in this extraordinary cast is Marcia Johnson, the talented playwright whose new play, Courting Johanna, is adapted from Alice Munro’s short story, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.
Join the festival for this much-anticipated event.
Tickets are just $15, and are available at The Village Bookshop in Bayfield, and the Blyth Festival box office, toll free at 1-877-562-5984 or locally at 519-523-9300.
The Blyth Festival’s 2008 special events sponsor is Huron Insurance Managers Group.
Accommodation is generously provided by Clair-on-the-Square and, the Organ Factory Bed and Breakfast.
The season sponsor is Sparling’s Propane Co. Ltd., Blyth and the 2008 season media sponsor is CTV.
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