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The Land Acknowledgement or As You Like It: Cliff Cardinal

Fri. October 11th 2024 Metro Studio $25-$30

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The Land Acknowledgement or As You Like It: Cliff Cardinal

A devastating yet laugh-out-loud examination of land acknowledgements
Event can be attended in person In-Person Event
Theatre Comedy / Stand-Up / Sketch Cultural / Heritage First Peoples / Inuit / Métis
Fri. October 11th 2024 + Add to Calendar Metro Studio (All Ages)
7:00pm - 9:00pm  Doors at: 6:30pm General $30.00 Alumni/Student $25.00

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Cliff Cardinal

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Crow's Theatre

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Physical tickets at: Jamie Cassell Centre

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A devastating yet laugh-out-loud examination of land acknowledgements as cultural and political practice.

Cultural provocateur Cliff Cardinal revisits Shakespeare’s timeless tale of mistaken identities, gentle ruses and banishment in this show that exults in difficult subject matter.

When Crow’s Theatre, one of Toronto’s most eclectic and adventurous companies, premiered this audacious new production, they said very little about it. All they revealed was that Cliff Cardinal was doing a “radical retelling of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It.” There were no further details, no cast list, nothing.

How - and why - would Cardinal, a young Indigenous playwright and actor of Cree and Lakota heritage, acclaimed for his acerbic humour and willingness to deal with raw emotions and difficult subject matter, going to retell one of Shakespeare’s most accessible and whimsical plays?

Dubbed “the Canadian arts surprise of the year” by The Globe and Mail, Cardinal’s brilliant play, The Land Acknowledgement or As You Like It, offers you the unvarnished truth of the state of the reconciliation process between Indigenous communities and colonial settlers in Canada. When the curtains rise, prepare for Shakespeare as you’ve never seen him before and likely never will again.

Winner of the 2023 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama. Biography

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Metro Studio
1411 Quadra (at Johnson)
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Capacity172
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