Canada’s answer to Chris Rock? Or Hannah Gadsby? In The Land Acknowledgement, Cliff Cardinal refuses to be put in a box
Cliff Cardinal’s sensational solo show now back on stage in Toronto at the CAA Theatre, is a liberating night at the theatre.
The thirtysomething theatrical storyteller starts with what he thinks about the now ubiquitous practice of land acknowledgments – and his feelings might unite both those of a conservative inclination and Indigenous people fed up with performative gestures of solidarity from others. Cardinal – or at least the persona he’s playing on stage here – doesn’t much like pre-show land acknowledgments when Indigenous people are involved either, mind you. His description of one that went longer than the ensuing show itself is a politically incorrect delight. As much of the show is.
When this monologue was first performed in Toronto in 2021 at Crow’s Theatre – whose artistic director Chris Abraham is credited as “co-conspirator” rather than director – it was presented under the titleAudiences not in the know were surprised to discover that the land acknowledgment that Cardinal came out to deliver, ostensibly before that William Shakespeare comedy was to start, turned out to be the show itself.
Biting the hand currently feeding him is one of the strategies Cardinal uses to gain the audience’s trust – a trust which he then proceeds to entertainingly abuse, time and time again.
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