Next Thursday Attawapiskat is no Exception opens at Concordia's DB Clarke theatre.
This show has been a fully collaborate year-long process. We started with a research course centred around first nation issues while working with the design students to create an environment within which the play could live. Cree playwright Floyd Favel wrote the script inspired by the work brought forth by the students. Under the direction of Ursula Neuerburg-Denzer this play has become a poignant reflection on a variety of issues that are plaguing our first nation communities. The Attawapiskat community has been at the forefront of the news but, as the title suggests, Attawapiskat is one of many. Our story looks towards the severing of family, community and culture due to abuses including relocation, residential schools, failed land claims, and the highway of tears with the injustices surrounding missing and murdered women.
This story is one which will stay with me for a long time and I have been thrilled to be involved as design supervisor guiding the student designers through the process. I hope this show is seen by many and that the script will continue to grow through subsequent productions.
DB Clarke Theatre
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W
Montreal, QC
April 2 to 5 at 8pm
April 5 & 6 at 2pm
Ticket info is here.
