The Rez Sisters
O’ Kaadenigan Wiingashk & Public Energy present The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway
October 10, 2009 @ 8PM & October 11, 2009 @ 2PM
October 15, 16, 17, 2009 @ 8PM
Market Hall, 336 George St. N
Tickets:
$25; $17 students, seniors, underwaged. Available at Showplace Performance Centre Box Office, (705) 742-7469.
When it first broke on the Toronto theatre scene in 1986, this play by acclaimed Canadian playwright Tomson Highway startled and delighted audiences and has since achieved lasting influence in contemporary theatre. With its adept melding of stark realities of life on an Indian reserve with robust humour and elements of Aboriginal spirituality, The Rez Sisters is pure theatre, set to take you off on a journey as seven women dream and scheme of going to “The Biggest Bingo in the World”. Peterborough-based Aboriginal arts collective O’ Kaadenigan Wiingashk has assembled an outstanding artistic team, using a mix of artists from Peterborough and across Canada, including a colourful, whimsical design by Ted Roberts.
Writer
Tomson Highway
Director
Susan Spicer
Set & Lighting Design
Ted Roberts
Costume Design
Erika A. Iserhoff
Music
Curtis Driedger
Choreography
Bill James
Stage Manager
Patricia Lavert
Performers
Reneltta Arluk
Cherish Violet Blood
Gloria May Eshkibok
Nicole Joy-Fraser
Pamela Matthews
Susan Newman
Patti Shaughnessy
James Whetung