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A tough uncompromising look at a convent-run Native residential school. Cast of 4 women and 2 men.
A propos de l'auteur
Wendy Lill was born in Vancouver in 1950 and was educated in both London and Toronto, ON. She lived for many years in Winnipeg, MB, and now resides in Dartmouth, NS, with her husband Richard and two children, Joe and Sam.
She has written for magazines, radio, television, and stage. Her plays have been produced extensively on Canadian and international stages. Her play All Fall Down examines the roots of intolerance and hysteria and their effects on love. Sisters received the Labatt's Canadian Play Award at the Newfoundland and Labrador Drama Festival. Primedia Productions brought out television versions of two of Lill's plays, Sisters and Memories of You, both of which Lill scripted. (Sisters won a Gemini in 1992).
Lill has four plays nominated for a Governor General's Award for Drama: The Glace Bay Miners' Museum, All Fall Down, The Occupation of Heather Rose, and Corker.
Talonbooks has also published her Chimera, Messenger, and The Fighting Days.
Between June 1997 and June 2004, Wendy Lill was the Member of Parliament for Dartmouth and the Culture Communications critic for the federal New Democratic Party (NDP).
Résumé
Sisters is a tough, uncompromising look at a convent-run Native residential school. While the play chronicles in graphic detail the by now well documented agenda of cultural genocide which motivated the establishment of Native residential schools in Canada, the daring triumph of this play is that it reveals the far less well documented cultural infrastructure and values of the society which created those schools—the church and the state of white, colonial, paternalist Canada.
Cast of 4 women and 2 men.
