If you’re from rural Saskatchewan, a production coming to Dancing Sky Theatre will most likely look just like a scene out of your own life.

The Red Truck, a 2007 play from Saskatchewan author James O’Shea, is being revived this spring, bringing laugher and maybe a couple of tears to the audience.

Artistic Director Angus Ferguson says the story is about a man who tries to make a life for himself out west, but he follows his heart home to Saskatchewan, where he hopes to take over the family farm. However, his dad isn’t too keen on the idea.

“One of the things that brings him home is he just misses the people…People here are maybe stubborn, creative, determined. Like if we decide to get a truck into a theatre, we’re going to get a truck into a theatre.”

You heard that right. The team at Dancing Sky Managed to get a red truck into the theatre and onto the stage for this production, immersing the audience in that ‘farmyard feel’.

“This old truck that we’re using is actually a truck that was being driven around Meacham when I moved here 33 years ago,” Ferguson explains. “We had to haul it out of a snowdrift.”

He adds that O’Shea wrote the play while working in Meacham, so it’s fill to the brim with local references and Saskatchewanisms, and it’s sure to pull at the heartstrings of anyone who’s spent their life here.

“It’s funny. We watch television, and most of what we watch is American. The Canadian stuff we watch is about Vancouver and Toronto, so this (play) is about as Saskatchewan as it gets.”

The production started on Friday and runs through June 7th in Meacham. Tickets are available online at dancing sky theatre dot com or by calling the box office.