Blyth Festival, Summer Season 2026 Indoors, on the Margaret Stephens Stage Sisters of ‘78 By Kristen Da Silva Drama | World Premiere June 10 – August 9 | Opens June 12 Inspired by the Fleck Strike in Centralia, Ontario, Sisters of ’78 is a fierce, funny, and deeply moving ensemble drama about women pushed to the brink at a small auto-wiring plant. As unsafe conditions and harassment collide with a company that won’t listen, tensions spill into the wider community in a conflict that changed Canadian labour law forever.  A pivotal and long-overlooked moment in Canadian women’s and labour history, the Fleck Strike reshaped conversations about workplace dignity, solidarity, and collective action—conversations that continue to resonate today. Dry Streak By Leeann Minogue Contemporary Comedy June 17 – August 16 | Opens June 19 It’s the summer of 1988, and drought is scorching the Richards family’s rural Saskatchewan farm. And then son John returns home with his punk-rock, vegetarian city girlfriend, Kate. Tensions rise and then explode when Kate makes a reckless weather-related promise that turns private desperation into public spectacle. Wildly funny and sharply observed, Dry Streak is a comedy about belief, belonging, and small-town pressure. A fresh re-write of Minogue’s 2006 smash hit from Saskatoon’s Persephone Theatre. The Last Mayor of Rusty River By David Scott, John Powers, and Gil Garratt Musical Comedy | World Premiere July 29 – September 13 | Opens July 31 In Rusty River, a municipal election goes completely off the rails when two fed-up councillors decide to run a cat – Captain Whiskers – for mayor. What begins as protest spirals into an all-out circus filled with bluegrass-fuelled showdowns and political shenanigans. Co-created by David Scott, who served as both the youngest mayor in Canada and the last mayor of Seaforth before municipal amalgamation, the musical draws on ...