Indigenous theatre
iPhoto caption: Members of the company of 'On Native Land.' Photo by David Cooper.
REVIEW: In Vancouver, the new musical On Native Land shimmers with hope
Corey Payette’s On Native Land unfolds as something layered and multi-perspectival, moving between individual stories and a more panoramic awareness of larger forces at play.
iPhoto caption: Michaela Washburn, Teneil Whiskeyjack, Jesse Fervais, Tracey Nepinak, and Valerie Planche in 'Strife.' Photo by Jae Yang.
Q&A: Matthew MacKenzie on Strife and Indigenous sovereignty in storytelling
In plays including Bears, After the Fire, and The First Métis Man of Odesa, Métis playwright Matthew MacKenzie has centred Indigenous perspectives while examining how identity and power operate within both personal and political spheres.
iPhoto caption: (Front) Brefny Caribou, Trevor Duplessis, and (back) Cheri Maracle in 'Rose.' Photo by Curtis Perry.
REVIEW: Tomson Highway’s three-act musical Rose makes long-awaited world premiere at Ottawa’s NAC
Rose is, in many ways, a story oriented around grief — particularly queer and lesbian grief for Indigenous women. But it also centres humour and kinship.
iPhoto caption: Photo courtesy of Playwrights Canada Press.
In CoyWolf, playwright Colin Wolf ponders the meaning of resistance
“There’s a venn diagram [in which] wolf displacement across Canada matches Indigenous displacement,” he explains ahead of the play's publication with Playwrights Canada Press. “If you look at a map over the years of wolf territory, it's very similar to Indigenous territory in the way that it's been pushed over and up.”