Almighty Voice and his Wife is an Indigenous performance taking place at NOZHEM: First Peoples Performance Space, in Enweying, First Peoples House of Learning and Gzowski College, Oct. 15 and 16, 2010 at 8 p.m.

Indigenous Performance Initiatives (IPI) in association with the Department of Indigenous Studies at Trent University proudly presents Native Earth Performing Arts’: Almighty Voice and his Wife, written by Daniel David Moses, directed by Michael Greyeyes, produced by Native Earth Performing Arts and featuring performances by Derek Garza and Paula-Jean Prudat.

Artists’ talks will take place prior to each performance at 7 p.m. in the First Peoples Gathering Space across the hall from the performance venue. On Oct. 15 at 7 p.m.: director Michael Greyeyes will present his artist talk and on Oct. 16 at 7 p.m. playwright Daniel David Moses and Artist Neal McLeod will present a talk together.

Daniel David Moses’ remount of this new production is about the legendary Almighty Voice, a Cree from the One Arrow First Nation in Saskatchewan, who was arrested for killing a cow (intended to feed his community) without a licence in 1895. This led to the longest man hunt by the Northwest Mounted Police in Saskatchewan’s history. Almighty Voice and His Wife, appropriate for ages 12 and up, successfully toured to acclaimed audiences in London, UK and will continue to tour Toronto, Halifax, Edmonton, Kingston, Winnipeg, and Brandon.

“We are so incredibly excited to unearth this riveting play about the absurdity of colonialism,” says Yvette Nolan, Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts.

Playwright Daniel David Moses, associate professor of Drama at Queen’s University, grew up on the Six Nations lands on the Grand River in Southern Ontario. His recent playwright credits include: Coyote City (nominee for the 1991 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama), Big Buck City, Kyotopolis, The Dreaming Beauty (winner of the 1990 Theatre Canada National Playwrighting Competition), De Winter’s Tale, The Indian Medicine Shows, and Brebeuf’s Ghost.

Director Michael Greyeyes, associate professor of Theatre at York University, is Plains Cree from Saskatchewan. He began his career with the National Ballet of Canada. In 1990 he was invited to work with choreographer Eliot Feld in New York City. Michael co-choreographed Shimmer (2006), for Red Sky Productions and co-choreographed The Threshing Floor (2006), presented by Indigenous Performance Initiatives with Kaha:wi Dance Theatre.

Native Earth Performing Arts and Indigenous Performance Initiatives greatly acknowledge the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage, Canada Council for the Arts, and the Department of Indigenous Studies, Trent University.

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