100 Mile Playwright Festival

The Grey-Bruce Arts Collective has partnered with the Beautiful Joe Heritage Society to produce “The 100 Mile Playwright Festival” this fall. The festival is a two-day celebration of our local stories, artists and playwrights. It is also a vehicle from which local playwrights can have their work critiqued and produced. Over the course of one week, three local plays will be workshopped and at the end of the week, read in front of a public audience. After each play presentation, there will be a small reception with local entertainment where audience members can meet the playwright and actors.
Two plays, “A theatrical adapatation of Beautiful Joe” and “The Tank Range Project” are local stories, the latter also written by area playwrights. The third play in the festival is a submission from our local youth. “From the Page to the Stage: A Youth Playwrighting Contest” will be open to plays written by youth (ages 13-18) who live within 100 miles of Meaford. Currently, this is the only event of its kind in the province.