Written by Drew Hayden Taylor and directed by Renae Morriseau, God and the Indian is a powerful and unsettling drama co-presented by Native Earth Performing Arts and the Firehall Arts Centre. The play confronts the lingering wounds of residential schools through a tense encounter between a former student and her ex-teacher—one seeking recognition, the other grappling with memory and denial. As one critic put it, Taylor "has written a finely crafted mixture of humour and horror, as if he’s holding our hand, guiding us into our dark past"
Written by Yvette Nolan and directed by Nina Lee Aquino, The Unplugging is a stirring and timely dystopian drama co-presented by Native Earth Performing Arts and Factory Theatre. In a post-apocalyptic world where electricity has failed, two aging Indigenous women—Bern and Elena—are exiled from their village and forced to wander a desolate landscape. They must rely on traditional knowledge to survive, and when a young stranger appears, they face a pivotal choice: share their wisdom with a society that rejected them or forge their own future. Nolan’s uniquely comedic and hopeful voice shines through the darkness with nuanced reflections on aging, Indigenous knowledge, human dependency, and resilience
An embodied journey of reclamation rooted in Guna cosmology, Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way is written and performed by Monique Mojica (Chocolate Woman Collective), with Gloria Miguel as Elder and Master Actor, directed by José A. Colman and remounted by Jill Carter. The performance weaves together the narratives of a girl-soldier, Daughter from the Stars, and Sky Woman Falling—layered with the Grandmothers of Creation stories, alongside traditional mola textile aesthetics into a daring, thought-provoking theatrical tapestry.
Created and directed by Tara Beagan, In Spirit (formerly Quilchena) is a haunting solo performance featuring Sera‑Lys McArthur. The story unfolds from the perspective of a young girl who goes missing after receiving a bicycle for her birthday in spring 1979. Years later, her remains are identified—but it is through her fragmented memories that she attempts to convey her story, sharing shards of recollection and grief in a moving communion with her family and community
Choreographed by Michael Greyeyes and written by Yvette Nolan, with music composed by Miquelon Rodriguez, from thine eyes is a haunting and meditative dance-theatre piece. Featuring performers including Michael Caldwell, Luke Garwood, Ceinwen Gobert, Sean Ling, Shannon Litzenberger, and Claudia Moore, the work explores themes of mortality, memory, spiritual passage, and forgiveness. Developed in collaboration with Signal Theatre and Native Earth Performing Arts, the piece evokes the transition between life and death through dance and minimal dialogue, drawing on holding a deeply Indigenous cosmological perspective
