Blyth Festival

Since 1975, the Blyth Festival Theatre has put farmers and rural Canadians centre stage, telling our stories, sharing our history, and celebrating our way of life. A fully professional theatre, in the heart of Ontario’s bread-basket, the Blyth Festival’s ingenuity, tenacity, and creativity has irrevocably reinvigorated the region’s very imagination. Where the Blyth Festival has truly proven its leadership is in its ferocious insistence that the stories of life in rural Canada truly matter; that characters and plots taken and told from the county roads are just as important as those that light up the marquees on the Great White Way. The Blyth Festival has passionately asserted, for 43 years, that rural Canada has a history and imagination that is full, vibrant and as worthy of championing as any Shakespeare play. The Blyth Festival has put rural Ontario centre stage.