After ruling the roost at Blyth Festival, a play about pigeons flies the coop to Ottawa’s NAC GlobeArts
The Pigeon King is a countrified musical and true story about a pigeon-peddling fraudster, an off-the-rails trial and rural people left shamed and swindled., a countrified musical born and bred at the Blyth Festival, has moved after two seasons there to Ottawa, where it closes the National Arts Centre’s current English Theatre schedule, from April 24 to May 5. It’s a true story about a pigeon-peddling fraudster, an off-the-rails trial and rural people left shamed and swindled.
Gil Garratt is the artistic director of the Blyth Festival and one of the cast members and creators of The Pigeon King.Ponzi schemes, named after turn-of-the-20th-century Italian-American Charles Ponzi, involve the deceptive venture of paying off old investors with money collected from new ones. It’s the psychology of the ploy that is more interesting than the finance, however.
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