Pawâkan remains Inspired by the youth of Frog Lake First Nation on Treaty 6 Territory
Showtimes
Sunday June 22nd 7:30PM
Monday June 23rd 1:00PM & 7:30PM
Doors open one hour prior to curtain. Concert hall opens for seating half an hour before curtain. Please ensure that you arrive early or on time!
TICKET PRICES:
STANDARD $40.00
STUDENT & MATINEE $20.00
(prices include all fees and GST)
Ages 14+
Length: 90 minutes, no intermission
Pawâkan works with three Indigenous languages: Plains Cree, Stoney Nakoda and Michif. This 2025 tour gives Akpik Theatre the opportunity to delve deeper into Métis culture and land and hopefully more language with the cast and company. This Community Telling tour brings us into Treaty 1 territory for the first time and has us developing an even deeper connection to the land and communities in Saskatchewan and Alberta. Check in with us as the tour comes together for May and June of 2025! Buy your tickets and see you soon! Marci!
A community telling of Pawâkan Macbeth
Pawâkan Macbeth is Reneltta Arluk’s groundbreaking reimagining of Shakespeare’s darkest play into Cree history, legend and cosmology.
Pawâkan is set during pre-colonization, when Plains Cree were allied with Stoney Nakoda and at war with Blackfoot over territory, food, supplies and trade. When true autonomy existed among Indigenous Peoples and with that their spirits, their wisdom, practices, makers, tricksters, shifters, their darkness and light. All the while the Canadian Government were making their way west with Sir John A. MacDonald as its leader. Harsh environments brought immense fear, starvation, and uncertainty together to awaken the darkest of Cree spirits, the Wihtiko – a being with insatiable greed.
Through the exploration of Plains Cree language, history, stories and cosmology Arluk asks, What is it to be human? What makes a human vulnerable to the Wihtiko? Inspired by working with the youth of Frog Lake First Nation in Treaty 6 territory, and shared stories from Elders in the region, Arluk has created a terrifying journey through love, greed, honour and betrayal, with coyote howlers, Wiyôyôwak teaching us that resurgence requires balance.
Pawâkan Macbeth’s story was inspired by Frog Lake elders: Mary Ann Dillon, Rose Dillon, Henry Smith, Raymond Quinney, Cecile Dion, and Cultural Advisor Gary Berland. With original development of concept by Owen Morris and students of Chief Napeweaw School. Some of Pawâkan Macbeth stories originated from the Frog Lake, Loon Lake, and Onion Lake region on Treaty 6 territory.
Tickets only available from Westman Box Office online, in person, or call 204-728-9510
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