Reckoning
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Reckoning is a triptych of three short plays: Witness is a dance-movement piece featuring a Truth and Reconciliation Commissioner who unravels as he confronts the brutal testimony of residential school survivors; in Daughter, the daughter of a teacher who was accused of rape seduces her father's accuser; and Survivor is a solo piece about a man preparing to commit suicide as a protest against the insufficiencies of the reconciliation process.
Agonizing, poignant, theatrical, hilarious, and true, Reckoning illuminates the difficulties of trying to come to terms with our country's painful past.
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ARTICLE 11 is helmed by Andy Moro and Tara Beagan. Founded in 2013, ARTICLE 11 channels Moro and Beagan's mutual desire to pursue the creation of live performance works with a holistic approach and a rigorous attack. The company is named for the 11th Article of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. ARTICLE 11's performative installation DECLARATION has been featured at the National Arts Centre and the Royal Ontario Museum and wil be presented in Calgary at One Yellow Rabbit's High Performance Rodeo and MT Space's IMPACT in 2017. In Spirit, a theatrical work told from the perspective of a missing girl, has partnered with the University of Regina, GTNT, Ryerson University, and Queen's University, and will partner with Urban Indigenous Theatre in Winnipeg in 2017. Video Installation project RUN was part of The Mush Hole Project at one of this country's oldest Residential Schools, in September 2016.