Night at the Theatre: 1939 Canadian Stage Play

Indigenous students, faculty, and staff, please join us for a night at the theatre to see the play 1939 at the Canadian Stage. Tickets, transportation, and a meal will be provided.

1939

Anticipating a visit by King George VI, an English teacher at a fictional Residential School in Northern Ontario enlists her students in a production of All’s Well That Ends Well. But her rigid ideas of how Shakespeare should be performed are challenged as news spreads, audience expectations abound and her Indigenous students start finding parallels between themselves and the characters in the play, setting out to make Shakespeare’s bitter-sweet comedy defiantly their own (Canadian Stage)

This play. 1939 was produced at the Stratford Festival in 2022, developed in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action. The development was guided by Indigenous Elders, survivors, and ceremony.

Dinner 4:30 pm @Harmony Commons

Leaving campus to the Canadian Stage 6pm
Play 7:30 pm - 10 pm