The Edward Curtis Project | Theatre Performance | About
“Breathtaking, thought provoking, moving, magical...a magnificent production”
Judith Hogan, Theatre Director/Educator
The Edward Curtis Project is a modern-day picture story that creates an unlikely dialogue between Curtis, a controversial photographer of North American Indians in the early 1900s, and a Métis foreign correspondent named Angeline, who is suffering from a trauma she experienced after covering an Aboriginal story in the far north. Feeling she is disappearing she is brought face to face with the man obsessed with capturing “the vanishing Indian”, igniting a modern response to the ethics of representation, cultural identity and interpretation. Juxtaposing Curtis’ romanticized depictions of Native people with Leisnter’s contemporary photographs of Aboriginal communities the contrasts challenge both characters to face up to the real cost of seeing.
