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 as her Indigenous students find parallels between themselves and the characters in the play. Far from letting themselves be defined by colonial expectations, the students set out to make Shakespeare's bittersweet comedy defiantly their own.
By Jani Lauzon and Kaitlyn Riordan
Directed by Jani Lauzon
Set Designer - Joanna Yu
Costume Designer - Asa Benally
Lighting Designer - Louise Guinand
Composer and Sound Designer - Wayne Kelso
Dramaturge - Jessica Carmichael
Research Dramaturge - Sorouja Moll
Fight Director - Geoff Scovell
Elder Script Consultant - Pauline Shirt
Elder Script Consultant - Shirley Horn
Elder Script Consultant - Edna Manitowabi
Elder Script Consultant - Elizabeth Stevens
Indigenous Community Ambassador - Summer Bressette
Kanien’kéha Translator - Wahsonti:io Kirby
Anishinaabemowin Translator - Waawaate Fobister with Roger Fobister Sr.
Spiritual and Traditional Medicine Advisor - Pauline Shirt
Cultural Liaison - Phil Davis
Richard Comeau as Joseph Summers
Wahsontí:io Kirby as Evelyne Rice
Kathleen MacLean as Susan Blackbird
Tara Sky as Beth Summers
John Wamsley as Jean Delorme
Sarah Dodd as Sian Ap Dafydd
Jacklyn Francis as Madge Macbeth
Mike Shara as Father Callum Williams
Assistant Director - desirée leverenz
Assistant Set and Costume Designer - Victoria Spain
Assistant Lighting Designer - Hannah Kirby
Assistant Sound Designer - Olivia Wheeler
Fight Captain - Richard Comeau
Stage Manager - Bona Duncan
Assistant Stage Manager - Ada Aguilar
Assistant Stage Manager - Ken James Stewart
Production Assistant - Carolyn Bayley
Production Stage Manager - Bona Duncan
Production Stage Manager - Bruno Gonsalves
Production Stage Manager - Cynthia Toushan
Technical Director - Eleanor Creelman
Assistant Technical Director - Zach Fedora
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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 ...