Produced by ARTICLE 11 with Aluna Theatre, co-presented with Factory Theatre
Festival, Spanish language premiere, Indigenous
Lila is a warrior. She is the daughter of a hunter who taught her all he knew. She’s ex-army, too. When circumstances converge, Lila finds the perfect opportunity to avenge her baby sister’s murder while exercising the skills taught by the Canadian government.
Content Warning: Graphic descriptions of historical and contemporary hate crimes and depictions of other violence.
Season artwork by Mark Krzepis. Illustration of Lissete VC.
About ARTICLE 11
In our combined thirty-seven years of professional theatrical experience, ARTICLE 11 has become aware of some serious needs in the contemporary Indigenous arts ecology. This includes a dearth of Indigenous Designers, Stage Managers, Production Managers, Designers, Producers, and Administrators. We will do our part to address these needs by ensuring every project includes paid apprenticeship positions with clear guidelines well-supported by the entire creative and administrative team.
We create work that provokes active thought and dialogue in our audience, and solicit ongoing feedback about our work in a candid, respectful and mutually satisfying way. This includes consulting with peers, veterans and emerging artists as well as with non-artist stakeholders.
Our projects are an investment in the development of the contemporary Indigenous theatrical canon. This investment necessarily extends beyond a premiere production. We disseminate our full-scale productions as complete yet evolving works, not as touring versions of something that has been more whole. This is an acknowledgement that we as Indigenous peoples are not bound by colonial borders, but bound by common experiences and concerns for humankind. Our work includes the full breadth of society, and while it prioritizes the Indigenous perspective and Indigenous artists, we believe that our contemporary stories and art also inherently include the non Indigenous population. This active inclusion in practice and execution will inform the public works on offer, and will contribute to an increase in understanding of relevance among a multitude of peoples. article11.ca.
About Andy Moro and Tara Beagan
Andy Moro: Andy Moro works in dance, theatre, opera, film and installation. Lately Neptune Theatre, Tarragon, the NAC, Atlantic Ballet, Diana Lopez Soto, Vertigo, Edmonton Opera, Dancers of Damelahamid. He recently did production design for feature film Do Us Part, shot and edited the documentary The Road to Hasalala Danxalax and directed and edited Reckoning (in post.)
Tara Beagan: A proud Ntlaka’pamux and Irish “Canadian” halfbreed, Beagan has written 40 plays, eight published. Beagan is a Dora and Betty nominated actor, a Dora winning writer and a Betty nominated director. She was the 2020 Laureate of the Siminovitch Prize for Theatre in Playwriting and the 2025 winner of the Governor General’s Award for Drama.
Credits
- Performed by Lissete VC
- Written by Tara Beagan
- Co-Direction by Beatriz Pizano
- Co-Direction, Video, Set and Sound design by Andy Moro
- Collaborating Sound Design by Luca Caruso-Moro
