Episodes

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  • Been There, Now What?

    English May 17, 2024 33:54

    In the inaugural episode, Dian and Nina converse with theatre artist ahdri zhina mandiela, founder of b current Performing Arts and the Interlocutor for NAC English Theatre/BTW partnership, as well...

  • Women of the Fur Trade by Frances Končan

    English Mar 29, 2024 54:00

    Women of the Fur Trade playwright Frances Končan shares the inspiration and creative process behind their play, and the importance of sitting around and talking. About the bookIn eighteen hundred and...

  • Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity by Norma Dunning

    English Jul 22, 2022 39:37

    This month we are joined by Norma Dunning, Inuit writer, scholar, professor and grandmother, to talk about her book Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity. This poetry collection examines...

  • Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer by Kevin Loring

    English Jun 17, 2022 1:01:17

    A Nlaka’pamux from the Lytton First Nation in British Columbia, Kevin Loring, Artistic Director of Indigenous Theatre, is an accomplished Canadian playwright, actor and director and was the winner of...

  • A Quarter-Century of Artistic Leadership

    English Jun 08, 2022 1:14:37

    In this final episode of the podcast as her tenure draws to a close, Jillian interviews former NAC English Theatre Artistic Directors Marti Maraden and Peter Hinton-Davis, two giants on...

  • Me Tomorrow: Indigenous Views on the Future by Drew Hayden Taylor

    English May 27, 2022

    Drew Hayden Taylor is an award-winning playwright, novelist, scriptwriter and journalist. He was born and still lives on the Curve Lake First Nation in Central Ontario. Taylor has authored nearly...

  • Voices of a Generation: Three Millennial Plays, with zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan

    English Apr 25, 2022

    Voices of a Generation gathers three Canadian plays that crack open millennial stereotypes to reveal a generation’s complex and varied experiences. Zahgidiwin/love by Frances Koncan, of mixed Anishinaabe and Slovene descent,...

  • What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile by Larry Audlaluk

    English Mar 25, 2022

    What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile is written by Larry Audlaluk who was born in Uugaqsiuvik, a small camp west of Inukjuak in...

  • Julie Taymor: Dancing for the Gods

    English Aug 24, 2021 56:08

    Jillian speaks with directing supernova Julie Taymor about pushing theatricality in cinema and innovating cinematic language in the theatre. Also: playing with idiographs across scale, the poetry of transitions, gender...

  • Robert Lepage

    English May 10, 2021 1:21:15

    Jillian speaks with singular international theatre maker and Artistic Director of Quebec City’s Ex Machina, Robert Lepage, about stretching rehearsal schedules to make space for the “rendering farm”, creating the...