Women of the Fur Trade

Presented in Association with National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre & Great Canadian Theatre Company, Ottawa

In eighteen hundred and something something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with a preference for twenty-first century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life, love, and the hot nerd Louis Riel.

This lively historical satire of survival and cultural inheritance shifts perspectives from the male gaze onto women’s power in the past and present through the lens of the rapidly changing world of the Canadian fur trade.

Written by Frances Končan
Directed by Renae Morriseau
Marie-Angelique – Kelsey Wavey
Cecilia – Cheri Maracle
Eugenia – Lisa Nasson
Thomas Scott – Jesse Gervais
Louis Riel – Jonathan Fisher