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Sonny’s Way was developed as a part of the Indigenous Artist Residency at the National Theatre School of Canada. It has since had a readings in Montreal and in Toronto at Native Earth’s Weesageechak Begins to Dance Festival in November of 2019. It is poised to have a full production n 2021/2022 in Toronto.
A play that investigates how we judge the ways in which certain individuals choose to take on the struggles of life. The story follows two brothers who are reunited after some time apart and lets us in to how two people who grew up under the same circumstances end up living entirely different lives.
WARDO
WARDO (working title) follows an Indigenous adolescent boy Dylan into his 11th foster home. His guard is up and seemingly impenetrable, until his charmingly eccentric foster mom Dottie finds a crack...Shakespeare. For the first time in a long time he lets someone in. The two build a strong bond, a loving bond and that bond is built of their love for Shakespeare.It's awkward and beautiful to watch until Dottie breaks Dylan's trust in a horrible way.What he finds out about Dottie almost breaks him.Rather than fall, he turns to his culture and his people to find strength and ultimately burn the hole fuckin' house down.
A commission for Repercussion Theatre’s “Words with Will “ play development series in collaboration with Native Earth and their ANIMIKIIG creator’s unit.
