The Drawer Boy at the Port Perry Fair!!

This Labour Day weekend was the annual Port Perry Fair, a much anticipated, yearly celebration of agriculture and local talent!

Speaking of local talent!!  We found Helen Coughlin, director of the The Drawer Boy, out and about at the livestock pavilion of the fair doing research for the show!! She had a chance to meet some fascinating people (some cows too!) and ask some questions about farm-life and what it is like to work with the animals. 

Here's Helen with farm-staff from Elmcroft Holsteins, being introduced to a cow we are pretty sure was named Daisy.  

Did you know that, in the play, young Miles, a theatre performer from Toronto, has travelled to a smalltown farm to learn about farm-life for a play he is writing?  He meets Morgan and Angus, two farmers that teach him what it is like to work on a farm and raise livestock.  

Perhaps Helen's visit to the Port Perry Fair was a case of life imitating art!



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