About fareWel
This reunion reading of the play fareWel celebrates the past and honours the journey and great path that was blazed by this impactful story.
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"Winner of the 1997 Governor General's Award for Drama. Life is tense on the Partridge Crop Reserve. The Chief is in Las Vegas (again), the band is in receivership, and there's a move on to unilaterally declare self-government. And now that the welfare cheques have gone missing, the people of this fictional First Nation are forced to take control of their lives. "fareWel" is a raw and funny look at a group of ordinary people tackling some extraordinarily big issues." -Scirroco Drama
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Featuring Ryan Black, Jonathan Fisher, Marsha Knight, Michael Lawrenchuk, Tracey Nepinak, Ian Ross
Directed by Katie German
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CONTENT CONSIDERATION:
This play engages with content, using the artistic medium of theatre, that is reflective of the time in which it was written, although these themes persist today. The playwright investigates, through drama, character, and language, and relationships the tools of white supremacy and colonization to divide and disempower Indigenous communities and people. Concepts such as blood quantum, shadeism (or colourism), racism, as well as misogyny, education (and lack of), and dependency.
One facet is reflected by the use of the "N" word as a character's nickname. It is used to refer to the character informally instead of their name 30 times in the play, twice with some harshness in tone as in "Sit down, __" and "shut up, __". ​
