 By 2014, the festival had premiered 120 original plays, including Alice Munro's How I Met My Husband, and the Governor General Award-winning Quiet in the Land, by Anne Chislett.In 2017, Blyth Festival's original production, "Pigeon King", was chosen to be restaged in Ottawa as part of the National Arts Centre's 2018-2019 season.After the founding of Blyth Festival, Memorial Hall grew into a year-round centre of cultural activity for Huron County and southwestern Ontario.