Teaching newcomers to Canada about curling is the focus of the new comedy that opens Friday night at the Blyth Festival.
Artistic Director Gil Garratt explains the play profiles a Syrian woman and several other immigrants from a small town who sign up for curling lessons.
Garratt expands, "the night before the first lesson, the woman who was supposed to teach it slips and fall on the ice and breaks her hip. So the duty to teach curling falls to the Zamboni driver, and it turns out the Zamboni driver has some pretty unsavoury opinions about immigrants in Canada."
Garratt says the entire play takes place on the ice.
The New Canadian Curling Club opens Friday night at the Blyth Festival.
