Seeking Actors for "Sisters" Play

ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. The production of "Sisters" is currently in search of actors. Please, see the details below. About the Play: Sisters explores the life of a nun who burns down a Residential School, examining the cultural infrastructure and values of the white society which created them. Sisters focuses on the relationship among three nuns who run a Residential School in the 1960s. Back then, First Nations children were taken from their homes and treated abusively in Catholic schools, their culture, language, and customs suppressed. Sisters follows the journey of Sister Mary from young woman, very enthusiastic and full of good will, to middle-aged, a tortured soul. After Mary, a young nun, burns down the residential school she teaches at, her path from faith to disillusionment plays out before her eyes. Haunted by her youthful hope, transformed by the nuns and First Nations students she lives with, Mary sits in the county lockup and does the only thing her burning soul will allow her to do: confess. Did she choose wisely? While the play chronicles in graphic detail the by now well documented agenda of cultural genocide which motivated the establishment of Residential Schools in Canada, the daring triumph of Sisters 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. Sisters is a tough, uncompromising look at a tragic and shameful chapter in Canadian history. Additional information: If needed for callbacks: December 19. Show run: May 2-18. Performance Date: Sunday, May 19. You must also be available for the public adjudication that will happen the next day. This is required unless in school. If Sisters is chosen for Best Production, this show will go up at Mainstage, being held in Chilliwack, and the performance date will be sometime between July 2-7. You also must be available for the public adjudication being held the following day. If interested, please apply.