ELAPULTIEK- “We are looking forward”

Actors Shalan Joudry and Matthew Lumley. Photo credit Malachy Schwartz

ELAPULTIEK (ehl-ah-bool-dee-egg)

Performing on Saturday, October 26, 2019

Time: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm

Place: The Oaks at Saint Mary’s University

Elapultiek (“we are looking towards”) is a 2-person play written by Bear River First Nation (L’sitkuk) playwright Shalan Joudry. Commissioned by Two Planks and a Passion Theatre, the show was a huge success as an outdoor performance last summer at Ross Creek Centre for the Arts. Now, Elapultiek begins its journey as a touring indoor production, continuing its effort to inspire acts of Reconciliation. 

In the time of Idle No More, a young Mi’kmaw drum singer and a Euro-Nova Scotian biologist meet at dusk each day to count a population of endangered Chimney Swifts. As the relationship deepens over time, they struggle with their differing views of the world. Each ‘count night’ reveals a deeper complexity of connection to land, history, and ecology, and of reconciliation on a personal level.