Women of the Fur Trade
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Centre Stage Series event
Women of the Fur Trade
co-presented with Reconciliation Theatre Society and Sid Williams Theatre Society
FREE ADMISSION! Please reserve seats online or at the box office!
Online - https://www.sidwilliamstheatre.com/events/women-of-the-fur-trade/
Box office - 250.338.2430 ext 1
Recommended ages 13+
Women of the Fur Trade
By Frances Koncan
In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with a preference for twenty-first century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life, love, and the hot nerd Louis Riel.
Marie-Angelique, a Metis Taurus, is determined to woo Louis (a Metis Libra) - who will be arriving soon - by sending him boldly flirtatious letters. Eugenia, an Ojibwe Sagittarius, brings news of rebellion back to the fort after trading, but isn’t impressed by Louis’s true mediocre nature. And Cecilia, a pregnant British Virgo, is anxiously waiting on her husband’s return from an expedition, but can’t resist pining over the heartthrob Thomas Scott (Irish Capricorn), who is actually the one secretly responding to Marie-Angelique’s letters. This will all go smoothly, right?
Updated after its sold-out run at the Stratford Festival and with a brand-new study guide, this lively historical satire of survival and cultural inheritance shifts perspectives from the male gaze onto women’s power in the past and present through the lens of the rapidly changing world of the Canadian fur trade. (Description from www.playwrightscanada.com)
Frances Koncan was a finalist for the 2023 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English and Winner of the 2018 Toronto Fringe Best New Play Contest.
CONTENT WARNING
This event contains the following: swearing, discriminatory themes, stage gunfire and war sounds, disturbing content, reference to hanging and execution
Women of the Fur Trade
co-presented with Reconciliation Theatre Society and Sid Williams Theatre Society
FREE ADMISSION! Please reserve seats online or at the box office!
Online - https://www.sidwilliamstheatre.com/events/women-of-the-fur-trade/
Box office - 250.338.2430 ext 1
Recommended ages 13+
Women of the Fur Trade
By Frances Koncan
In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with a preference for twenty-first century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life, love, and the hot nerd Louis Riel.
Marie-Angelique, a Metis Taurus, is determined to woo Louis (a Metis Libra) - who will be arriving soon - by sending him boldly flirtatious letters. Eugenia, an Ojibwe Sagittarius, brings news of rebellion back to the fort after trading, but isn’t impressed by Louis’s true mediocre nature. And Cecilia, a pregnant British Virgo, is anxiously waiting on her husband’s return from an expedition, but can’t resist pining over the heartthrob Thomas Scott (Irish Capricorn), who is actually the one secretly responding to Marie-Angelique’s letters. This will all go smoothly, right?
Updated after its sold-out run at the Stratford Festival and with a brand-new study guide, this lively historical satire of survival and cultural inheritance shifts perspectives from the male gaze onto women’s power in the past and present through the lens of the rapidly changing world of the Canadian fur trade. (Description from www.playwrightscanada.com)
Frances Koncan was a finalist for the 2023 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English and Winner of the 2018 Toronto Fringe Best New Play Contest.
CONTENT WARNING
This event contains the following: swearing, discriminatory themes, stage gunfire and war sounds, disturbing content, reference to hanging and execution
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Where is it happening?
442 Cliffe Avenue, Courtenay, BC, Canada, British Columbia V9N 2J2
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Host or PublisherSid Williams Theatre
