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This play list has been organized into adaptations by aboriginal playwrights and aboriginal-themed adaptations by non-aboriginal playwrights. Click on the play title for more information about each play.

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Karen Amirault performs in
Susan Olson's To Thine Own Self Be True

Adaptations by Aboriginal Playwrights:

Big Bear
Michael Lawrenchuk

Brébeuf’s Ghost: A Tale of Horror in Three Acts
Daniel David Moses

The Death of a Chief
Kennedy Cathy MacKinnon and Yvette Nolan

For Godly and Divinia

Billy Merasty

Hamlet-Le Malécite

Yves Sioui Durand

New World Brave
De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group

Romeo Otter of Friends
James Morris

Sakipitcikan

Ondinnok

Shakedown Shakespeare
Yvette Nolan and Philip Adams

The Winter’s Tale
Michael Lawrenchuk

To Thine Own Self be True
Susan Olson (Director/Coordinator) / Collective Creation

Adaptations by non-Aboriginal Playwrights:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Carousel Theatre School’s Native Youth Internship Program

As You Like It
Fran Gebhard

The Blizzard
Eric Epstein and Dawn Davies

Chief Shaking Spear Rides Again, or The Taming of the Sioux
Warren Graves

Hô Mão and Julieta: A multi-cultural Romeo and Juliet
Allen Booth and Robin White

King Lear
David Gardner

The God of Gods

Charles Carroll Colby Aikins

The Tempest
Lewis Baumander; Choreography by René Highway


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Fischlin, Daniel. Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project. University of Guelph. 2004.

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