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The Unnatural And Accidental Women
''The Unnatural and Accidental Women'' is a play by Metis playwright Marie Clements about the disappearance of multiple Indigenous women from the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver whose deaths of extremely high blood-alcohol levels were all caused by one man, Gilbert Paul Jordan. In an attempt to reclaim the lives and importance of the victims, which was largely ignored by press coverage of the Jordan case, Clements' play is a surrealist exploration that jumps around in time to show the women in the final days before their deaths. Through the figure of the daughter of one of the victims, who is searching for answers to her mother's disappearance, the women are brought back to life and talk about their hopes, desires, and challenges as residents of "Skid Row" in Vancouver. Characters * Rebecca — ages 4 and 30, Mixed blood/Native, a writer * Rose — age 52, English immigrant * Aunt Shadie — age 52, Native, later revealed to be Rebecca's mother * Mavis — age 42, Native * The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Clements
Marie Clements (born January 10, 1962) See p. 147. is a Canadian Métis playwright, performer, director, producer and screenwriter. Marie was founding artistic director of urban ink productions, and is currently co-artistic director of red diva projects, and director of her new film company Working Pajama Lab Entertainment. Clements lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia. As a writer Marie has worked in a variety of mediums including theatre, performance, film, multi-media, radio, and television. Early life Clements was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Early in her life she studied dance, speech, singing, piano, and music, but she dreamed of being a foreign correspondent. She studied journalism at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta. Career During the 1980s Clements worked as a radio news reporter and is still a freelance contributor to CBC radio. She has also worked in the writing department of the television series ''Da Vinci's Inquest'' which featured a plot line ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monique Mojica
Monique Mojica ( Kuna and Rappahannock) is a playwright, director, and actor based out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She was born in New York City, but came to Canada as founding member of Native Earth Performing Arts. She has appeared in several films and plays, including '' Smoke Signals'' in 1998, and her own stage play '' Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots''. Biography Mojica comes from a long line of theatre practitioners. Her mother, Gloria Miguel, and aunts Muriel Miguel and Lisa Mayo (born Elizabeth Miguel) are the founders of Spiderwoman Theater. Mojica began training in acting and theatre at the age of three and follows many of the traditions of storytelling and theatre creating seen in Spiderwoman's works. She is also of Jewish ancestry. Jewish–Indigenous hybridity is one of the themes of both David Treuer’s and Mojica's work. Career Her most famous plays include ''Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots'', ''Birdwoman and the Suffragettes'', and ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violence Against Indigenous Women In Canada
Violence is the use of physical force so as to injure, abuse, damage, or destroy. Other definitions are also used, such as the World Health Organization's definition of violence as "the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, maldevelopment, or deprivation."Krug et al."World report on violence and health", World Health Organization, 2002. Internationally, violence resulted in deaths of an estimated 1.28 million people in 2013 up from 1.13 million in 1990. However, global population grew by roughly 1.9 billion during those years, showing a dramatic reduction in violence per capita. Of the deaths in 2013, roughly 842,000 were attributed to self-harm (suicide), 405,000 to interpersonal violence, and 31,000 to collective violence (war) and legal intervention. For each single death due to vio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vancouver In Fiction
Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2.6million in 2021, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Greater Vancouver, along with the Fraser Valley, comprises the Lower Mainland with a regional population of over 3 million. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada, with over 5,700 people per square kilometre, and fourth highest in North America (after New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City). Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada: 49.3 percent of its residents are not native English speakers, 47.8 percent are native speakers of neither English nor French, and 54.5 percent of residents belong to visible minority groups. It has been consistently ranked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Works About Violence Against Women
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Canadian Plays
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Plays Set In Canada
Play most commonly refers to: * Play (activity), an activity done for enjoyment * Play (theatre), a work of drama Play may refer also to: Computers and technology * Google Play, a digital content service * Play Framework, a Java framework * Play Mobile, a Polish internet provider * Xperia Play, an Android phone * Rakuten.co.uk (formerly Play.com), an online retailer * Backlash (engineering), or ''play'', non-reversible part of movement * Petroleum play, oil fields with same geological circumstances * Play symbol, in media control devices Film * ''Play'' (2005 film), Chilean film directed by Alicia Scherson * ''Play'', a 2009 short film directed by David Kaplan * ''Play'' (2011 film), a Swedish film directed by Ruben Östlund * ''Rush'' (2012 film), an Indian film earlier titled ''Play'' and also known as ''Raftaar 24 x 7'' * ''The Play'' (film), a 2013 Bengali film Literature and publications * ''Play'' (play), written by Samuel Beckett * ''Play'' (''The New York Times'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plays Based On Actual Events
Play most commonly refers to: * Play (activity), an activity done for enjoyment * Play (theatre), a work of drama Play may refer also to: Computers and technology * Google Play, a digital content service * Play Framework, a Java framework * Play Mobile, a Polish internet provider * Xperia Play, an Android phone * Rakuten.co.uk (formerly Play.com), an online retailer * Backlash (engineering), or ''play'', non-reversible part of movement * Petroleum play, oil fields with same geological circumstances * Play symbol, in media control devices Film * ''Play'' (2005 film), Chilean film directed by Alicia Scherson * ''Play'', a 2009 short film directed by David Kaplan * ''Play'' (2011 film), a Swedish film directed by Ruben Östlund * ''Rush'' (2012 film), an Indian film earlier titled ''Play'' and also known as ''Raftaar 24 x 7'' * ''The Play'' (film), a 2013 Bengali film Literature and publications * ''Play'' (play), written by Samuel Beckett * ''Play'' (''The New York Times' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unnatural & Accidental
''Unnatural & Accidental'' is a 2006 Canadian film directed by Carl Bessai and starring Carmen Moore, Callum Keith Rennie, and Tantoo Cardinal.Alison Gillmor, "Play's powerful message muted by overly stagy film". ''Winnipeg Free Press'', December 8, 2006. It was adapted from a Marie Clements play ''The Unnatural and Accidental Women''. Premise ''Unnatural & Accidental'' is about a First Nations woman named Rebecca (Carmen Moore) who returns home to Vancouver to be with her dying father and searches for her mother, Rita Jones (Tantoo Cardinal), who has been missing for years. Her journey leads her into the troubled life faced by many First Nations women who have ended up killed. Awards 2007 * Genie Award for Best Achievement in Music – Original Song – Jennifer Kreisberg, song "Have Hope" * Leo Award for Best Lead Performance by a Male in a Feature Length Drama – Callum Keith Rennie * Leo Award for Best Picture Editing in a Feature Length Drama – Julian Clarke * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheri Maracle
Cheri Maracle is an Aboriginal Canadian actress and musician of Mohawk-Irish descent. Early life Maracle graduated in 1989 from Prince Rupert Secondary School. At seventeen, she moved to Vancouver to study theatre at Capilano University and the Spirit Song Native Indian Theatre School. She is a member of the Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation. Career Maracle is best known for her roles in the television series '' Blackfly'' and ''Moccasin Flats'', the 2007 film ''Tkaronto'' and stage productions of Tomson Highway's '' Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout''. She has a recurring role on '' Degrassi: Next Class'' as Ms. Cardinal, the mother of Grace Cardinal. She appeared in Marie Clements' 2017 musical documentary on Indigenous history, '' The Road Forward''. In 2019, she played Verna in the National Arts Centre's production of Clements' ''The Unnatural and Accidental Women''. She has been nominated twice for the K.M. Hunter Theatre award for her theatrical work. She was al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columpa Bobb
Columpa C. Bobb (born 1971) is a Canadian photographer, actress, playwright, poet and teacher of Coastal Salish descent. She has been performing, writing plays, and teaching for 20 years. Career Bobb, who is originally from Vancouver, has written over a dozen plays that have been produced across Canada and overseas including ''Jumping Mouse'' (co-written with Marion deVries), a play for young audiences, that was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award and a James Buller Award. Bobb is most recognized for the role of Mary Cook on the CBC Television show ''North of 60'', and also appeared in the short lived series ''The Rez'' and the film ''Johnny Greyeyes''. In 1997 she won a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for her work in Firehall Theatre's production of Drew Hayden Taylor's ''Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth''. She was a cultural instructor and faculty member of the Centre for Indigenous Theatre in Toronto. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yolanda Bonnell
Yolanda Bonnell is a Canadian actress and playwright. She is most noted for her play ''Bug'', which was a Governor General's Award nominee for English-language drama at the 2020 Governor General's Awards. Early life and education An Anishinaabe member of the Fort William First Nation near Thunder Bay, Ontario and a graduate of Humber College's theatre school, she had her first significant acting role in a 2016 production of Judith Thompson's play ''The Crackwalker''. Career Her subsequent roles included a 2018 production of Kim Senklip Harvey's ''Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story'', and a 2019 production of Marie Clements's ''The Unnatural and Accidental Women''. Her play ''bug'' was staged at various theatre festivals, including the annual Rhubarb Festival at Buddies in Bad Times, beginning in 2015, and was a Dora Mavor Moore Award nominee for Outstanding New Play in 2019. It received its most widespread attention in early 2020, when a production by Theatre Passe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
