The Birds & the Bees by Mark Crawford

World Premiere at the Blyth Festival - June 22 to August 6

The Birds and the Bees by Mark Crawford

From the author of 2014's runaway hit, Stag and Doe, comes a raucous, hilarious new comedy with huge, honeyed heart.It's nearly time for the last-ever annual Turkey Days Festival and the excitement in town is palpable. Sarah, a turkey farmer, has just left her husband and moved back home with her mother Gail (herself a divorcée of more than twenty years).

You see back then, Gail was married to Frank.

And Earl was married to Sheila.

And then Sheila ran off with Frank.

And left Earl and Gail sitting alone on their respective home farms on either side of the concession road.

And while Earl soon moved on, and even took up online dating,

Gail just never really...

well...

remounted the proverbial horse of love...

so to speak.

Nowadays, Gail raises bees. And Earl is still a cash cropper. Gail rents Earl her fields... but neither of them can really stand each other. Sarah, sick of feeling trapped in a loveless marriage, and tired of spending her days walking around artificially inseminating turkeys, is back under Gail's roof.

Enter Ben, an eager, athletic, strapping young grad student majoring in entomology, intent on studying the declines in the local bee population.

This is just the starting point of Mark Crawford's brilliant and knee-slapping new play.