“The Pigeon King is a country parable for our times, reminding us that what takes flight, always comes home to roost.“

(If you missed The Pigeon King during its run in the 2018 Season at the Blyth Festival, you can still catch it at the National Arts Centre 2018-19 English Theatre Season. It plays in the Babs Asper Theatre from April 24 to May 5, 2019. Find out more here.)

Claiming to have access to lucrative pigeon racing markets in Saudi Arabia and throughout the Middle East, the Pigeon King began to sign ten-year contracts with guaranteed profits for buyers of his breeding pairs, promising to personally buy back all of the chicks. Over the next seven years, Pigeon King International became a massive empire, worth tens of millions of dollars, with farmers investing from both sides of the border, mortgaging century farms, and hatching hundreds of thousands of birds, only to collapse in a bankruptcy filing of epic proportions. Finally convicted of fraud in a Waterloo Court, Arlan Galbraith was sentenced to seven years for his preposterous Pigeon Ponzi scheme.

The Pigeon King is a country parable for our times, reminding us that what takes flight, always comes home to roost.

Cast (in alphabetical order)

• REBECCA AUERBACH
• JASON CHESWORTH
• GIL GARRATT
• GEORGE MEANWELL
• J.D. NICHOLSEN
• BIRGITTE SOLEM

Creative Team

• SEVERN THOMPSON  Director
• STEVE LUCAS  Set & Lighting Designer
• GEMMA JAMES SMITH  Costume Designer
• VERNE GOOD  Sound Designer
• NEHA ROSS  Stage Manager
• VICTORIA WANG Assistant Stage Manager

The Pigeon King has been supported in part through “The Collaborations” – at Canada’s National Arts Centre

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