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Checking out ‘The Rez Sisters with Deborah Neville

By Josh Martin,
Sports Editor

fter bringing Dancing

at Lughnasa to life
in the Studio theatre last
fall, director Deborah
“Debz” Neville is
preparing to show off her
latest play production
here at Douglas
College—The Kez Sisters
by Tomson Highway,
which will be making
its way on stage in the
Laura C. Muir Theatre
from November 9 to
17. This play will be the
second play production
that is being put on by
the Theatre department
here at Douglas, the first

of which being Dangerous
Corner, which comes out
on November 2.

“|The Rez Sisters] is a
dark comedy. It’s about
seven sisters who live on
a fictional pre-Ojibway
reserve in Ontario. It is
Tomson Highway’s entry
point for Canadians into
life on a reservation, and
he does this by writing.
Your average Canadian
or Canadians who are
unfamiliar with reserve
life have a way in so that
it’s not ‘so other’ or ‘so
foreign’ so that we relate
to First Nations women
on a reserve, simply,
easily. They’re very much
like ourselves,” says
Neville.

“(My initial vision]
has developed a lot
actually. We met local
band chiefs and we’ve
spoken to various other
First Nations people who
are attached to the college
or to New Westminster
or to Vancouver and
we've learned so much
about what it means
to be First Nations in
[many] different ways.
But there is something
different and something
very culturally rich
and there’s an honor
there that we are really
discovering. Something
that was wiped out due
to Canadian politics, and
it’s very much in some
case researching.”

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Traditionally with
plays in the Muir
Theatre, the audience sat
in their seats, but with
The Rez Sisters Neville
decided that she wanted
to break that tradition
and bring the audience
up on to the stage to get
right into the action. On
stage will be seated risers
that surround the reserve,
giving that intimate and
up close feel that the
Studio theatre offers, and
what Neville wants her
audience to be a part of.

“When I read the
play and when I did
some research on Tomson
Highway, I realized
very much that the
reservation was as much

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or equally as important
as the characters in the
play—so the location
was key. What I didn’t
want was an audience
that was stuck back
looking, gazing upon the
reservation, or the ‘rez,’

I wanted the audience

to be in the reservation
and the reservation to

be in the audience. So
we've brought everybody
smack dab into the
reserve... as close as we
could get anyway.”

The Rez Sisters comes
out November 9 in the
Muir theatre at the New
Westminster campus, and
will run until November
17. Be sure to check it out!

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