Sisters is a tough, uncompromising look at a convent-run Native residential school. While the play chronicles in graphic detail the by now well documented agenda of cultural genocide which motivated the establishment of Native residential schools in Canada, the daring triumph of this play is that it reveals the far less well documented cultural infrastructure and values of the society which created those schools—the church and the state of white, colonial, paternalist Canada.
Cast of 4 women and 2 men.
Winner 1992 Gemini Award
Winner 1992 Newfoundland and Labrador Drama Festival, Labatt's Play Award
“Lill plunges deeply into the mysteries of the human heart.”
—NeWest Review
“a powerful dramatic exploration of hypocrisy and the human conscience.”
—Halifax Chronicle Herald
“intelligent and articulate.”
—Winnipeg Free Press
Wendy Lill has not only written extensively for radio, magazines, film, television and the stage, but has also been active in national politics. In 1979, while with CBC Radio in Winnipeg, Lill wrote her first play, On the Line, to dramatize the plight of striking Winnipeg garment industry workers. Since then, her plays have gone on to examine the Canadian women’s suffrage movement (The Fighting Days); aboriginal-white relations (The Occupation of Heather Rose, Sisters); pedophilia and mass hysteria (All Fall Down); the slashing of social programs (Corker); and the dangerous lives of coal miners in her adopted province of Nova Scotia (The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum).
…of women’s voices. Daughters, friends, sisters, young and old, talkative or daydreaming – in …
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…the murdered and missing Indigenous women, the sisters who are made more vulnerable and victimized by …
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…Marie-Lou , the classic Michel Tremblay play, two sisters confront the memory of their parents’ death – and …
…his sixth play, the multi-award winning The Rez Sisters, followed by the equally successful Dry Lips …