Tag: NAC English and aboriginal theatre

Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion,:Well executed but wordy!!

Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion,:Well executed but wordy!!

 

Herbie Barnes, Katie Ryerson,
darrell Denis
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The spark for Sir John A: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion, says playwright Drew Hayden Taylor, was “the Aboriginal equivalent of an urban legend.”

So, with his experience as a standup comic, as well as accolades as a playwright, at the fore, he delivers a road-trip comedy about an attempt to retrieve a medicine bundle now exhibited in a British museum. The method will be arranging an exchange with the bones of Canada’s first Prime Minister — to be dug up from Sir John A’s final resting place in Kingston.

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