news | Wednesday March 4, 2026

Hot Off the Press! White Noise Is Here!

The blistering new comedy White Noise by the late, great Taran Kootenhayoo is here! Hilarious, incisive, and potent, this play centres on two neighbouring families, one Indigenous and one white, as they dine together during Truth and Reconciliation Week.

An excerpt from White Noise:

“JASON
I just think we got a little upset. We let our emotions get
the best of us. We can work this out.

TS’EKWI
A little upset?

JASON
Yes. We all got a little upset.

TS’EKWI
I could give you a million reasons as to why I could be
upset, but what would that do?

JASON
Oh, so now you’re willing to tell me things? Moments
ago I thought that was taboo. I want to know about
the mouse!

Silence. TS’EKWI looks to DENEYU and to
WINDWALKER. DENEYU is looking at How
to Deal with White People underneath the table.
He sees the attention is on him, so he quickly
closes the book.

DENEYU
(to TS’EKWI) What? Oh. (to JASON) Um. Yeah. Not
cool, Jason.

JESSIKA
What’s that book you have under there?

DENEYU
Book? What book?

JESSIKA
That really big book.

DENEYU
I don’t know what you’re talking about.

DENEYU drops the book on the floor.

Oh shit.”

As cultural misunderstanding, colonial violence, and racism both covert and overt surface, White Noise asks, “How do we deal with internalized racism? Do we keep pushing it away … or do we make a change?” Pick up your copy of White Noise here.