2025 Blyth Festival Season Preview with Artistic Director Gil Garratt

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We all know about Rosie the Riveter and the women who kept our factories afloat during WWII. But did you know thousands of young women (some as young as 16) took to our fields and farms as well? These girls kept the country (and the troops) fed, but their contribution was largely forgotten once the war was over.

The Blyth Festival sets out to right this wrong with a new play called Onion Skins and Peach Fuzz: The Farmerettes. Written by Alison Lawrence and based on original research by local historian Bonnie Sitter, this new work brings all the hijinks and hardships of six fictionalized Farmerettes to joyous life.

Join host Joanne Wallace for a discussion with actors Lucy Hill and Alicia Salvador and director Severn Thompson about the book and the play that restore these hard-working young women to their proper place in Canada's war history.

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The Blyth Festival is supported by many generous sponsors, along with our loyal Blyth Festival Members. Onion Skins & Peach Fuzz is sponsored by The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 420 and The Legion Ladies Auxiliary to Branch 420. Our season sponsor is Bruce Power. Thank you all for this critical support.
More about Severn Thompson, Lucy Hill and Alicia Salvador.
More about Bonnie Sitter's book and an upcoming Farmerettes documentary here.
Credits: Research/writing/host: Joanne Wallace | Sound design/production/editing: Jim Park
Music: Wicked Man and The Nightingale is Singing Our Song, Martin Landstrom via Epidemic Sound. Ukulele music by kind permission of Heidi Wai-Yee Chan | Theme Achaidh Cheide, (c) Kevin MacLeod, licensed under CC BY 3.0