by Deanna Dement Myers

Kamloopa – Written by Kim Senklip Harvey. Directed by ESTEFANÍA FADUL, Lighting Design by EMMA DEANE, Sound Design by CAROLINE ENG, Dramaturgy by TATIANA GODFREY, Costume Design by LUX HAAC, Scenic Design by CALYPSO MICHELET, Props by JULIANA VON HAUBRICH, Production Stage Manager AMANDA NITA LUKE, Assistant Stage Manager KATHLEEN SOLTAN. Presented in collaboration with artists from various Indigenous Nations. Performance live on the ancestral homelands of the Mohican Tribe at The Elayne P. Bernstein Theater in Lenox, MA by WAM Theater October 7-24, 202. Streaming digitally November 1-7, 2021.

Remember our story; there is more out there than we have been told.

Kamloopa, by Kim Senklip Harvey, is WAM’s first live production since the Before Times and my first time back in a theater as well. The evening opens in a way true to the mission of WAM (Where Arts and Activism Meet) with a moving land acknowledgement by Shawn Stevens, a member of the Stockbridge-Munsee tribe. The Elayne P. Bernstein Theater is an intimate black-box space on the campus of Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, MA and is the perfect setting to explore what it means to be an indigenous person in this moment. Indeed, the play opens with a voice not speaking English, and not translated in any way, alerting the audience that if they don’t understand the language, then they are, if only for the length of the performance, the Other.

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