SOURCE: http://www.firstnationsdrum.com/2000/12/margo-kane-i-have-a-voice-that-wants-to-say-something/
PLAY: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eowm0x9vIf3M2xNHLwItsndKulrD7vYY/view?usp=sharing
Many audiences need to consider the importance of ceremony and its many functions within a particular community to understand Indigenous plays properly.
We also need to consider that different cultures have different understandings of the role of ceremony and related ideas, including (but not limited to) topics like individualism and collectivity, individual human rights and community responsibility, entitlement and obligation. These multiple understandings shape how artists create theatre work and how different spectators interpret it.
Consider ceremony in this play and look at how diverging cultural understandings of things like ceremony, community, and the function of art can lead to tensions in how artists, critics, and spectators receive and discuss theatre works.
QUESTIONS
What would be the public’s initial reaction to the play Moonlodge by Margo Kane?
How is ceremony incorporated into this piece? Why is it a crucial element to the play Moonlodge?
