<\/a>My brother opens a new play up at the Blyth Festival<\/a> tomorrow entitled The Nuttals<\/em>. I wish his legs would break! From TheRecord.com:<\/a><\/p>\n

\nThe play guaranteed to stir the pot this season is award-winning Canadian playwright Michael Healey’s The Nuttalls.<\/p>\n

It’s a coup for Blyth to commission one of the country’s most celebrated playwrights who gave Canadian theatre The Drawer Boy. <\/p>\n

“Michael has such an extraordinary brain,” Coates observes. “No two of his plays are alike.<\/p>\n

“I was after him for several years to do something for us and he came across with an unexpected, knockout, drag-out comedy.”<\/p>\n

Directed by Kate Lynch, the comedy focuses on a mother and her grown son who swim in a deep pool of domestic discord.<\/p>\n

Coates expects some degree of pushback from the community because the comedy satirizes the war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know if everyone is ready to go where Michael takes us.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

PS: I love how the Blyth website is covered in Chickens.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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