Indigenous Works

Indigenous Works

Enrich your curriculum by integrating important conversations found in the storytelling of 1939, Women of the Fur Trade and more, brought to you by Indigenous playwrights and theatre artists.

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Indigenous Works
  • Behind the Scenes with Director Yvette Nolan - Women of the Fur Trade

    Watch Women of the Fur Trade behind the scenes with director Yvette Nolan.

  • Deceitful Above All Things - Audio Play | New France

    “Deceitful Above All Things” immerses us in blood and lust via the tumultuous arrival in New France of two young women: one pursuing an illicit love affair with a priest, the other determined to escape the tyranny of childbearing. Both will challenge the conventions of their time and forge the mo...

  • Heartless - Audio Play | New France

    “Heartless” propels us twenty years into the future, and into the voice of the daughters of the original families. An examination of the power of story telling and community to heal the intergenerational trauma of colonization.
    "Heartless" was recorded on the traditional lands of the Anishinabe, ...

  • Dark Heart - Audio Play | New France

    In “Dark Heart”, we shift backwards in time to explore the backstories of the minor characters from “Deceitful Above All Things”, as they attempt to solve a supernatural mystery in this taut historical thriller. A young French bride disappears into the forest. Has she run off to be with her lover...

  • 1939

    An inspiring journey from page to stage.
    Anticipating a visit by King George VI, an English teacher at a church-run residential school in Northern Ontario enlists her students in a production of All's Well That Ends Well. But her rigid ideas of how Shakespeare should be performed are challenged ...

  • 1939 Post Show Discussion

    1939 Post Show Discussion with Jani Lauzon (Director and Co-Writer of 1939) and Kaitlyn Riordan (Co-Writer of 1939), moderated by Summer Bressette (Consultant, Indigenous Communities Outreach).

  • Episode Three: Dominic Explores Technical Set Design

    Ages 6-13
    Come explore the fascinating "magical" elements of set design from the Stratford Festival's production of 1939. Dominic learns the importance of technical design from both a storytelling and cultural perspective.

  • Celebrated Speakers: Bev Sellars | The Meighen Forum

    Author and advocate Bev Sellars formerly served as councilor and chief of Xatśūll (Soda Creek) First Nation in British Columbia. Her memoir, They Called Me Number One, about her experiences in the residential institution St. Joseph's Mission, formed a key part of the research for the play 1939,...