TKTKT Theatre and Indigenous actors

Playwright Drew Hayden Taylor’s Crees in the Caribbean was pulled as producers couldn’t find Indigenous actors to play the central characters. Share Save for later Please log in to bookmark this story. Log In Create Free Account

As a professional playwright and amateur Indigenous activist, I’m in a bit of a conundrum. An Indigenous theatre conundrum. They’re not common but they do exist.

A theatre company in Southern Ontario has cancelled plans to produce one of my plays, a full year in advance. The play – Crees in the Caribbean . The reason? The producers could not find any Indigenous actors old enough to play the central characters. Unable to properly cast the roles with those of a coppery hue, the production has been pulled. For this particular play, this is t