Women of the Fur Trade

By Frances Koncan

Jan 24 - 26, 2024
Azrieli Studio 1 Elgin Street Ottawa Canada
Indigenous arts Theatre Comedy

  • In-person event
  • English

  • Ages 13+

Performance options Start time Language Availability
Wednesday, January 24, 2024 11:00 am English Seats available
Friday, January 26, 2024 11:00 am English Seats available

“Women of the Fur Trade...bridges history with humour, and a dash of 21st-century slang.”

Stephanie Cram, CBC

In association with Great Canadian Theatre Company, Ottawa, and Native Earth Performing Arts, Toronto

In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with a preference for twenty-first century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life, love, and the hot nerd Louis Riel.

This lively historical satire of survival and cultural in- heritance shifts perspectives from the male gaze onto women’s power in the past and present through the lens of the rapidly changing world of the Canadian fur trade.

Artists

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    Author Frances Koncan

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