This Fall, Halifax audiences will experience a reimagined MacBeth that captures Cree history, cosmology and community, and brings a new angle to the ...
This Fall, Halifax audiences will experience a reimagined MacBeth that captures Cree history, cosmology and community, and brings a new angle to the classic play at Neptune TheatreAudiences can expect to feel a sense of community when they watch Pawâkan MacBeth this fall. PHOTO CREDIT: Contributed
“Reimagining this story was a powerful experience, so we thought, ‘alright, let’s see how this works on a professional stage,’” says Arluk. “And now, having two actors from Mi'kma'ki on stage really feels perfect.”Pawâkan MacBeth is set during pre-colonization and reimagines the play’s titular character as the cannibal spirit Wihtiko. Arluk says this idea came out of a Shakespearean workshop she was leading in Frog Lake First Nation, in Treaty 6 territory.
“We offered tobacco and met with the elders to discuss using spirits like Wihtiko in these stories, as these spirits remain current in Cree cosmology,” says Arluk. Nasson had heard about Pawâkan and the play’s local casting call when she was an actor at Stratford. As a fan of both the original and its new Cree focus, she says the experience has held special significance for her.
“I had never seen an Indigenous actor until I became one. To speak my language in front of elders and young people—that’s something I hold onto,” he says. “And this time, in Mi'kma'ki, it feels like I’m returning to a place that I’ve missed. It feels very safe.”
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