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On Saturday, an open letter signed by some twenty Aboriginal artists and intellectuals and a dozen "co-signing allies" denounced the absence of First Nations actors in the play. This show is on show at the Paris Autumn Festival on December 15.
According to the website of the Théâtre du Soleil, of which Mme Mnouchkine is the soul, the play wants to present a new reading of history of Canada "Through the Prism of the Relationship between Whites and Aboriginals."
In a statement released on Sunday, Mr. Lepage and Ms. Mnouchkine proposed to meet with the signatories of the letter on Thursday, because "this is the the only time the (French) can move from Paris to Montreal before a long stay in Asia. "
Their teams try to reach all the signatories of the letter to send them the invitation.
Interviewed by La Presse Canadian, Saturday, one of them, the artistic director of the theater troupe Ondinnok, David Jeniss, lamented that the First Nations were only consulted for the show. "Once again, we take our stories, we interview Aboriginal people and then we completely mop them up," he said.
In the press release, Mr. Lepage also pledged to meet the SLAV collective Resistance before a forthcoming broadcast of the show "before opening to a dialogue displayed" by the group at their last press conference.
The show SLAV which presented a series of songs from the slavery, found itself at the heart of a controversy. Many voices have spoken out against production, which they believe is racist appropriation of black culture. In front of the controversy, the International Jazz Festival of Montreal had preferred to cancel all the last performances of SLAV .
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