ArticlesDarla Contois
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Drama
Tale follows 3 generations of Indigenous women’s art, activism, survival ‘through acts of love’
Produced by Prairie Theatre Exchange in the fall of 2021 and now being published as a book, Cree-Saulteaux theatre artist and playwright Darla Contois’s play The War Being Waged is a multidisciplinary, multi-generational work exploring the roles that art, activism, and family play in the lives of Indigenous women resisting ongoing colonialism in Canada today.