My brother opens a new play up at the Blyth Festival tomorrow entitled The Nuttals. I wish his legs would break! From TheRecord.com:

The play guaranteed to stir the pot this season is award-winning Canadian playwright Michael Healey’s The Nuttalls.

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

“Michael has such an extraordinary brain,” Coates observes. “No two of his plays are alike.

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

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

Coates expects some degree of pushback from the community because the comedy satirizes the war in Afghanistan.

“I don’t know if everyone is ready to go where Michael takes us.”

PS: I love how the Blyth website is covered in Chickens.