Pig GirlDirected by Micheline Chevrier
Featuring Reneltta Arluk, Marcelo Arroyo, Ron Lea and Julie Tamiko Manning
Imago Theatre presents Pig Girl by Governor General’s Award winner, Colleen Murphy, directed by Micheline Chevrier. In Pig Girl, we witness Killer who has taken prisoner Dying Woman. It is a tragedy, since we know she will die at his hands. But she is not a victim: she fights back, her act of defiance reminds us of her humanity, of her identity. Alongside is the story of Sister who desperately, yet relentlessly confronts a justice system that is painfully slow at dealing with the disappearance of marginalized women.
The events surrounding the disappearance and murder of many women in the Vancouver Eastside – many of them Indigenous – were the catalyst for this work of imagination by Toronto playwright Colleen Murphy. The intention of Pig Girl, in her words is to “make people see, acknowledge, and care enough to take action, to care enough for a woman they never knew and perhaps would not want to know, to care enough to ask why—why? Why some women find themselves in such vulnerable situations? What have they endured to make them so vulnerable? Why do some men fear and hate women, and what have they endured to make them into predators? And why does society, including people in authority, refuse to acknowledge this recurrent pattern of abuse?”
Designed by Diana Uribe, Andrea Lundy and Jesse Ash
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Imago Theatre Production
