Photo of Sam Bob by David Cooper. Graphic Design by Dafne Blanco.
Professor Tom Scholte (Actor) joins Theatre Design/Production alumni Carolyn Rapanos (Set/Props Designer), Alan Brodie (Lighting Designer), Carmen Alatorre (Costume Designer) in šxʷʔam̓ət (home) presented by Theatre for Living in collaboration with Journeys Around The Circle Society.
A provocative and entertaining production created and performed by an Indigenous and non-Indigenous cast, directed by David Diamond and associate directed by Renae Morriseau, it weaves together stories based on real life, challenging us to make reconciliation real and honourable.
There’s a conversation happening in Canada about Reconciliation and how it’s manifesting action in both Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities across this country. The City of Vancouver has officially declared that Vancouver sits on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. But what do these initiatives really mean? If we are sincere about the desire for reconciliation, what kinds of shifts in perceptions and behaviours need to take place? What is the pulse of change each of us are shaping? How do we break down the walls of colonization that surround us all? Is Reconciliation possible without respecting promises and guarantees made regarding Indigenous consent for projects on Indigenous land?
šxʷʔam̓ət (home) will be workshopped, created and performed by a cast of seven original and relevant voices, from a diverse range of Canadian society: Asivak Koostachin (Inuk/Cree), Madeline Terbasket (Okanagan, Ho-Cak & Anishnabe), Mutya Macatumpag, Nayden Palosaari (Cree), Rev. Margaret Roberts*, Sam Bob* (Snaw-Naw-As/Coast Salish) and Tom Scholte*.
Technical Director Tim Cardinal (Cree), Stage Manager Dorothy Jenkins*, Set/Props Designer Carolyn Rapanos, Video Designer Bracken Hanuse Corlett (Wuikinuxv and Klahoose), Lighting Designer Alan Brodie, Sound Designer Muin S. Gould (Mi’kmaq), Costume Designer Carmen Alatorre, Webcast Master Chris Bouris, Tele/webcast Director Michael P. Keeping.
*Appear through the generous support of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association.
Theatre for Living (formerly Headlines Theatre) has a 36 year, multi-award winning history of creating cutting-edge, interactive theatre that challenges perceptions and creates social change.
Forum Theatre: is an opportunity for creative, community-based dialogue. The play is performed once, all the way through, so the audience can see the situation and the problems presented. The story builds to a crisis and stops, offering no solutions. The play is then run again, with audience members able to “freeze” the action at any point where they see a character engaged in a struggle, and have an idea to solve the problem, somehow. They replace the character whose struggle they understand. The other characters respond, not to “make it better”, not to “make it worse”, simply to be truthful, drawing on their own lived expertise. What insights do we have? What do we think? What do we learn? Who agrees? Who disagrees? In this way we engage in a creative and action-based dialogue about issues in our lives. The process is fun, profound, entertaining and full of surprises.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/7NNtpaXuIh4
