It's almost like an episode of the city mouse visits the country mouse, except with a whole lot more antics, a brilliant script and plenty of laughs.

The Bluewater Summer Playhouse production of “Buying the Farm,” which opened Tuesday night at the Kincardine Arts Centre, is fast-paced and funny, and pits country smarts against city bluster, with fabulous results.

The Kincardine Record - 2019

For the second time this season, the team at Lighthouse Festival has assembled a show full of laughs, heart, and a timely message at its heart that speaks to a growing concern right here at home: the struggle between wanting to preserve a small-town way of life against the growing need for urban development and expansion.

Haldiman Press - 2022

Coming in Fall of 2024 to Globus Theatre!

When Brad Deacon, a young real estate agent trying to prove himself to his father, arrives at the Bjornson farm, he’s determined to succeed where others have failed. And that may just happen since the old, bachelor farmer, Magnus Bjornson, is now finding himself backed into a corner with mounting debt and suburban neighborhoods advancing from every direction. But chores, skunks and ants get in the way, not to mention Magnus’ high-spirited and secretive, great niece Esme, who is unwavering in her resolve that this farm is NOT FOR SALE. How much is a fourth generation farm worth? Is it possible to hide from one’s self? And can anyone hold back “progress”? To answer these questions, Magnus, Esme and Brad must break through the divisions between urban and rural life to build a better future for them all...

‘Buying the Farm,’ the new Hoffman & Sparks show currently on stage at Upper Canada Playhouse until August 13, is the kind of show you just want to wrap your arms around and hug.

Morrisburg Leader - 2023

As funny as Buying The Farm is, there is a serious undercurrent to it. According to the 2021 census, Ontario is losing 319 acres of farmland every day, up from 175 acres a day just five years ago. Developers and investors like the ones Brad represents are driving this trend. It is a very real problem and one that the Drayton audience knows intimately and, I suspect in the case of some audience members, personally. One of the nicest things about Buying The Farm is that the playwrights not only find a happy ending for Brad and Esme but engineer one for Magnus’s farm as well.

Ontario Stage - 2022