Blyth Festival’s opening act highlights Indigenous voices with Anishnaabe playwright Drew Hayden Taylor’s tongue-in-cheek satire about Canada’s first prime minister

The Blyth Festival Theatre held its opening night for the 2025 season on June 20, featuring Drew Hayden Taylor’s play, Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebeillion. From left: Characters Hugh and Bobby Rabbit devise their plan to rob Sir John A. Macdonald’s grave and hold his bones for ransom to get Bobby’s grandfather’s medicine bundle returned to the family from a museum in England. (Cory Bilyea photos)