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The Petition
Workshop Performance

The Petition is an immersive, site-specific, physical performance, part daydream and part nightmare; a downtrodden mother is forced to teach her children a harsh lesson. We intend to present this piece in an empty city lot or park.

Creative Team

Costume and Set Designer

  Aurora Judge 

 

Choreographer & Movement Director

   Sid Ryan Eilers

 

Writer & Director

   Radha S. Menon 

 

Performer

  Learie McNicolls 

 

Composer & Sound Designer

   Christopher Stanton

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Rehearsal for The Petition Workshop. Pictured from Left to Right: Aurora Judge, Learie McNicolls, and Sid Ryan Eilers

The Petition

Over the past five years, the world has experienced such severe weather systems that would normally have been spread over a period of five hundred years. Menon wrote a first draft of The Petition as part of a group of poets protesting the proposed Northern Gateway Pipelines. Plays vs. Pipeline Poets engaged in a playwriting relay: each day one participant wrote a play responding to the proposed pipelines however they saw fit. The Petition was presented in Ottawa at Canada’s Magnetic North Theatre Festival 2015 as a pop-up show in the Ottawa School of Art performed by Menon and directed by Dia Gupta-Frid. The text was further developed as part of Theatre Direct’s Play Creation Unit 2018. 

 

In January 2022, Red Beti produced a development workshop for The Petition which culminated in a workshop performance in front of a small, invited audience at Theatre Aquarius Studio.

 

Red Beti Theatre feels the urgent need to share the story; there is no time to waste.
 

This workshop was made possible due to the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts and Theatre Aquarius

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Performer Learie McNicolls as Amma in The Petition Workshop Performance

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Red Beti Theatre

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We want to acknowledge the Aboriginal people of Turtle Island, especially in this place now called Hamilton, covered by the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, as well as, the Between the Lakes Purchase 1792, which was an agreement between the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the Crown, but also, the traditional lands of the Haundenasaunee Confederacy, Wendat, Nuetral and other Nations acknowledged and unacknowledged, recorded and unrecorded.
 
This acknowledgement isn’t enough. How can it be? Only action will suffice.
 
As settlers on Turtle Island, it’s our duty to respect and protect its living beings, human, non-humans, forests, lakes and mountains.
 
We wish and hope for Indigenous Sovereignty, knowing it will never right the wrongs inflicted in the name of progress under Colonialism: It will never return children home.

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