1939 (2024)
Produced by
Belfry Theatre and Canadian Stage and Stratford Festival
Director: Jani Lauzon
Playwrights: Kaitlyn Riordan and Jani Lauzon
Venue
The Berkeley Street Theatre – Marilyn and Charles Baillie Theatre
Run
September 15th, 2024 – October 12th, 2024
Synopsis
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. (canadianstage.com)
Cast
| Brefny Caribou | Susan Blackbird |
| Merewyn Comeau | Evelyne Rice |
| Richard Comeau | Joseph Summers |
| Catherine Fitch | Sian Ap Dafydd |
| Nathan Howe | Father Callum Williams |
| Grace Lamarche | Beth Summers |
| Amanda Lisman | Madge Macbeth |
| John Wamsley | Jean Delorme |
Creative Team
| Jani Lauzon | Director |
| Kaitlyn Riordan | Playwright |
| Jani Lauzon | Playwright |
| Jessica Carmichael | Dramaturge |
| Joanna Yu | Set Designer |
| Simge Suzer | Associate Set Designer |
| Asa Benally | Costume Designer |
| Barbara Morrone-Sanchez | Associate Costume Designer |
| Louise Guinand | Lighting Designer |
| Sruthi Suresan | Associate Lighting Designer |
| Wayne Kelso | Sound Designer |
| Wayne Kelso | Composer |
Production
| Kelly ‘Fran’ Davis | Spirital & Cultural Advisor |
| Sarah Miller | Stage Manager |
| Maya Bowers | Assistant Stage Manager |
| Richard Comeau | Fight Director |
| Amanda Lisman | Fight Captain |
| Jane Gooderham | RP/Cockney/French Dialect Coach |
| Waawaate Fobister | Anishinaabemowin Language Coaching |
| Roger Fobister Sr. | Anishinaabemowin Language Coaching |
| Roger Fobister Sr. | Anishinaabemowin Translations |
| Waawaate Fobister | Anishinaabemowin Translations |
| Wahsonti:io Kirby | Kanien'kéha Language Coaching |
| Wahsonti:io Kirby | Kanien'kéha Translations |
| Emma Edwards | Land Acknowledgement Recordings |
| Josh Vlodarchyk | Head Technician, Lighting |
| Karen Elizabeth | Head Technician, Audio |
| Camille Macdonald | Pre-Production Operator, Lighting |
| Mairead Canning | Dresser |
| Adelaide Hobson | Wigs and Hair |
| Sharon Ryman | Wigs and Hair Coordinator |
| Erin Halls | Stitcher |
| Karen Donaldson | Stitcher |
| Johanna Edwards | Stitcher |
| Geoff Hughes | Cutter |
Staff
| Daniel Bennett | Director of Production |
| Lynanne Sparrow | Producer |
| Laurie Merredew | Assistant Producer |
| Brayden Crawford | Technical Director |
| Meg Woods | Production Manager |
| Matthew Hadley | Building Operations Manager |
| Marshall Kidd | Associate Technical Director |
| Kendalin Bishop | Assistant Technical Director |
| Ian Kowalski | Production Coordinator |
| Mary Spyrakis | Head of Properties |
| Janet Pym | Head of Wardrobe |
| Chynah Philadelphia | Props Assistant |
| Kate Counsel | Apprentice Production Manager & Technical Director |
