Season Suspended
June 10-August 8
Opens June 12
By Gil Garratt, Beth Kates, Kelly McIntosh, and Emma Marcy
Lorna Bray was born in Blyth, Ontario in 1931. Lorna grew up in this small farming community, attended the local one-room school, went to church, saw the trains coming in and out of town, all in the midst of the Great Depression. And at the age of fourteen, in a break from all convention and expectation, she began what would become a defining lifelong relationship: she learned to fly a Piper J-3 Cub.
By the age of 16 Lorna not only had her private pilot’s license, she had joined the Ottawa Parachute Club and became the youngest woman in Canada to jump out of an airplane. Lorna’s illustrious career took her literally all over the world: from supply runs to the mines in Northern Ontario, to working as a flight instructor in New Zealand, to being Canada’s first female civil aviation inspector. Even in retirement, Lorna continued to fly, volunteering for the Red Cross in Ethiopia.
Lorna won the Amelia Earhart Award from the Ninety-Nines, an international women pilots organization. She was a recipient of the Order of Ontario, the Order of Canada, an inductee into the Women in Aviation International Hall of Fame, and the Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame.
Lorna’s achievements in aviation are astounding. She was a trailblazer and standard bearer who helped push through the glass ceiling, full throttle.
The play itself follows Lorna’s phenomenal biography, and will be an incredible piece of storytelling with a few technical marvels that you will want to experience.
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Play Showings
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Wednesday | June 10, 2020 (Preview) | 8pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Thursday | June 11, 2020 (Preview) | 8pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Friday | June 12, 2020 (Opening) | 8pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Saturday | June 13, 2020 | 2pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Saturday | June 13, 2020 | 8pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Tuesday | June 16, 2020 | 2pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Wednesday | June 17, 2020 | 2pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Thursday | June 18, 2020 | 2pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Friday | June 19, 2020 (Country Supper Available at Blyth Legion) | 8pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Saturday | June 27, 2020 (Country Supper Available at Blyth Legion) | 8pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Tuesday | June 30, 2020 | 2pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Thursday | July 2, 2020 | 8pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Friday | July 3, 2020 (Country Supper Available at Blyth Legion) | 8pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Saturday | July 4, 2020 | 2pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Tuesday | July 7, 2020 | 8pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Wednesday | July 8, 2020 | 2pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Thursday | July 9, 2020 | 2pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Friday | July 18, 2020 (Country Supper Available at Walton Hall) | 8pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Tuesday | July 21, 2020 | 2pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Friday | July 24, 2020 (Country Supper Available at Blyth Legion) | 8pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Sunday | August 2, 2020 | 2pm | BUY Passes |
Airborne: The Life and Legacy of Lorna Bray | Saturday | August 8, 2020 (closing) | 8pm | BUY Passes |