WHITE GIRLS IN MOCCASINS
A MANIDOONS COLLECTIVE + BUDDIES IN BAD TIMES THEATRE PRODUCTION
Miskozi goes on a search for herself and her culture, accompanied by her inner white girl, Waabishkizi, and guided by Ziibi, a manifestation of an ancestral river. An irreverent reclamation story, White Girls in Moccasins world-hops between dreams, memories, and a surreal game show as Miskozi grapples with living her own truth in a society steeped in white supremacy.
CREATIVE CREDITS
Yolanda Bonnell // playwright & performer
Cole Alvis + Samantha Brown // co-directors
Elizabeth Staples// performer
Ravyn Wngz // performer
Trevor Schwellnus // set + projection design
Rihkee Strapp // animation and associate video design
Echo Zhou // lighting design
Sruthi Suresan // associate lighting design
Maddie Bautista // composer + sound design
Rachel Forbes //costume design
Asli Ozuak // associate costume design, set and props coordinator
Yolanda Bonnell // choreographer
Natércia Napoleão // associate producer
Steph Raposo // production manager
Dylan Tate-Howarth // stage manager
Ada Aguilar // rehearsal stage manager
Sheila Demerah // moccasins
Mary Magiskan // belt
Aqua Nibii Waawaaskone // drum
Nathenia Bonnell / drum painter
Mary Bonnell // gramma’s hands
Pauline Shirt // knowledge keeper
Amy Ireland + Natasha Bacchus // Deaf interpreters
Lena Recollet + Sally Atchitawens-Recollet // Anishinaabemowin language keepers
Jeremy Mimnagh // Production photographer
PRESS
NOW Toronto Review: White Girls in Moccasins is a powerful Indigenous coming-of-age play
“The sound design of Maddie Bautista creates a soundscape that further encapsulates the theatre space, removing all sense of an external world.”