Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience

You take your seat in the theatre. You are given a remote control. The play begins.

An urban couple are on a getaway to visit her father at his vast rural estate. But when they arrive, they find him missing and a local Indigenous man staying there instead. They ask him to leave … and with an anonymous click of your remote, you choose what happens next.

When it’s revealed that the colonial rights to this entire property are actually up for grabs, you must continue to decide how the story unfolds, ultimately determining how the land will be stewarded, and by whom.

With humour, suspense, and a race against time, Inheritance is an interactive stage play – with over fifty possible variations – that thrusts you into the middle of a land dispute and asks you to work it out. Replete with additional material, this unique book includes insightful forewords by President of the Haida Nation Miles Richardson and environmentalist David Suzuki, a brief history of the Secwépemc People, a detailed study guide for students and teachers, and an interview with the co-creators.

Cast of 1 Indigenous woman (can be audiovisual only), 1 Indigenous man, 1 non-Indigenous woman, and 1 non-Indigenous man

DANIEL ARNOLD (Ukrainian/Scottish ancestry) and MEDINA HAHN (Lebanese/Irish ancestry) co-wrote/performed the award-winning plays Tuesdays & Sundays and Any Night, both of which were published in Canada and USA and toured to places such as Canada’s National Arts Centre, Edinburgh, Prague, New Mexico, and New York. Tuesdays & Sundays was also a radio play on CBC and BBC, and their screenplay of Any Night won the CFF Super Channel Screenplay Award. They are the protégé recipients of Canada’s largest theatre award, The Siminovitch Prize.

MEDINA HAHN (Lebanese/Irish ancestry) and DANIEL ARNOLD (Ukrainian/Scottish ancestry) co-wrote/performed the award-winning plays Tuesdays & Sundays and Any Night, both of which were published in Canada and USA and toured to places such as Canada’s National Arts Centre, Edinburgh, Prague, New Mexico, and New York. Tuesdays & Sundays was also a radio play on CBC and BBC, and their screenplay of Any Night won the CFF Super Channel Screenplay Award. They are the protégé recipients of Canada’s largest theatre award, The Siminovitch Prize.

Darrell Dennis, a Secwépemc native, is the writer/performer of the Dora-nominated Tales of an Urban Indian, The Trickster of 3rd Ave East, Home of the Running Brave, and numerous other plays, television, film, and radio, as well as the award-winning non-fiction novel Peace Pipe Dreams: The Truth about Lies about Indians.