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4th Line Theatre continues its summer season with the world premiere of Jim Watts: Girl Reporter at the Winslow farm near Millbrook.
Written by awarded playwright Beverley Cooper, the play chronicles the experience of youths who illegally flocked to Spain in the mid 1930s to fight Fascism, attempting to stop its march across Europe. Jean ‘Jim’ Watts was the only woman to join the MacKenzie-Papineaus, Canada’s battalion in Spain.
4th Line managing artistic director Kim Blackwell is directing the production – the latest in a long line of world premieres she has brought to the outdoor stage.
Blackwell says actor Katie Ryerson, who in playing the title character is making her 4th Line Theatre debut, is rock solid.
As is typically the case with 4th Line plays, there is a local connection to the story in the form of Peterborough’s Jim Higgins who also ventured to Spain to fight Facism.
Jim Watts: Girl Reporter opens August 1st. Tickets can be ordered online at www.4thlinetheatre.on.ca.
(Written by: Paul Rellinger)
