In addition to its lineup of full productions, Factory will host work-in-progress presentations of Provisions and Ghost River Theatre and Macromatter's Soft Squishy Things in its Studio Theatre during the SummerWorks Performance Festival, running from August 6 to 16.
“A big part of what I consider this writing to be is an honoring of ancestors that I will never meet in person,” says Beagan. “[That includes Indigenous] ancestors who [may only be] distantly related to me, or not actually bloodline-related to me at all, because it feels like we have to do that wherever we are in this colonized nation."
Published by Playwrights Canada Press, her multilingual play Rise, Red River connects environmental devastation with the intergenerational impacts of colonial violence.