NAC Indigenous Theatre
iPhoto caption: Yolanda Bonnell in bug. Photo by Dahlia Katz.
Decolonizing Theatre Practice as a Playwright and Performer: A Conversation with Yolanda Bonnell
Institutions want to make us feel like they are doing us a favour by inviting us into their space… But I think that we have way more power to challenge these systems and institutions.
Had things gone differently with Soulpepper’s programming, another production entirely might have been in its place this season. And, had things gone differently in Jani’s early years as an artist, she might not have grown into the fierce matriarch of Indigenous theatre that she is.