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Yvette Nolan
Yvette Nolan is a playwright,
dramaturge, and director. In 1996, she was the Aboriginal Writer in
Residence at Brandon University, where she wrote the first draft of
Annie Mae’s Movement. Her other plays include BLADE,
Job’s Wife, Video, the libretto Hilda Blake and
the radio play Owen. She is also the editor of Beyond the
Pale: Dramatic Writing from First Nations Writers and Writers of Colour.
She was the president of Playwrights Union of Canada from 1998–2001,
and of Playwrights Canada Press from 2003–2005. Born in Prince Albert,
Saskatchewan to an Algonquin mother and an Irish immigrant father, raised
in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she lived in the Yukon and Nova Scotia before
moving to Toronto to take the helm at Native Earth Performing
Arts.
“What is Native theatre
and what should Native theatre be. For a long time, well long is relative,
for some time there has been an expectation of what Native theatre can
be: that’s buckskin, that’s victim stories, that’s overcoming
our residential school experience, our alcohol issues, or whatever it
is. Those kinds of stories have had a fairly narrow focus on what Native
theatre should be. I look around in Toronto and I look around Stratford
and I look around everywhere and I never see anybody of colour in those
plays. I don’t know why that is. Our People should be considered for
those roles.”
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