The Pigeon King at the NAC is a perfect country musical about pigeon scams, the modern family farm, hope and loss and that reality is stranger than fiction
The National Arts Centre’s latest acquisition, The Pigeon King originally from Blyth Festival and starring the Blyth Festival cast, is an outstanding southwestern Ontario country musical comedy built around one of the most outrageous pyramid schemes Canada’s ever seen, the Pigeon King International scam of the early-to-mid-2000s that saw hundreds of farmers switch over to raising pigeons with disastrous results. This is a case of fact being stranger than fiction, and the Blyth Festival crew have turned the facts into a play that makes a worthy addition to the Canadian canon. …