‘Powers’ transports audience to a comfortable place 20 years ago

August 7, 2025 @ 7:05 amArts & Entertainment, Listowel Banner, Walkerton Herald-Times, Wingham Advance Times

Randy Hughson’s Edward Power, left, and Madeline Kennedy’s Gloria, right, are the primary characters in Powers and Gloria which is returning to the Blyth Festival stage after first premiering there 20 years ago. The play also featured Richard Comeau as Darryl and James Dallas Smith as James/Jimmy. (Lyon Smith photo)

The remounting of Powers and Gloria, directed by Peter Hinton-Davis, brings to life the work of Keith Roulston, one of the Blyth Festival’s founding members, and does so in a way that makes you feel like  you’re sitting in 2005, when it was first released. Settling in to the familiar surrounding of the theatre at…

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