Medicine Shows Format: Paperback

Medicine Shows traces Canadian Indigenous theater artists over the past thirty years, illuminating the connections, the artistic genealogy, and the development of a contemporary Indigenous theater practice. Neither a history nor a chronicle, Medicine Shows examines how theater has been used to make medicine: reconnecting individuals and communities, giving voice to the silenced and disappeared, staging ceremony and honoring ancestors.

Yvette Nolan is a playwright, dramaturg, and director. She has written several plays, including Annie Mae’s Movement, Job’s Wife, and The Unplugging, and is co-editor of Refractions: Solo. Born in Saskatchewan to an Algonquin mother and an Irish immigrant father and raised in Manitoba, Yvette lived in the Yukon and Nova Scotia before moving to Toronto, where she served as Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts from 2003 to 2011. She divides her time between Saskatoon and Toronto.