LET YOUR STUDENTS EXPERIENCE The Unplugging – our Saskatchewan premiere of the acclaimed play by local playwright Yvette Nolan
Bring your students to a school matinee @ The Refinery
Thursday, March 6 OR Friday, March 7
Showtimes 10am or 1pm (Time to be determined with the schools booking)
At The Refinery (909 Dufferin Ave, Saskatoon)
Call the Box Office to book a group of students: 306-653-5191
Students: $10 / Teachers & Adults: $15
Show length: 90 minutes including talk-back
Audience Advisory: Content not suitable for children. Recommended for ages 14+.
The Unplugging
by Yvette Nolan
Featuring Lisa Bayliss, Patsy Tuba & Liam Johnston
Director: Roxanne Dicke (The Herd, Persephone)
Associate Director & Sound Designer: Tim Bratton
Production Consultant & Playwright: Yvette Nolan
Lighting & Projections Designer: Judith Schulz
Scenic Designer: Stephen Waldschmidt
Costume Designer: Emma Gustafson
Stage Manager: Liam Scramstad
When all the world’s technology ceases to function, it is time to find a new way of living—or an old way. Two women—exiled for being too old to bear children, trudge across the desolate winter prairie, clinging to traditional wisdom for survival.
A charismatic stranger appears, seeking their aid, but will they share their knowledge of the past and provide hope for the future to the community that branded them “useless”?
Set on the frozen lands of what was Saskatchewan, this play pits post-apocalyptic survival of the fittest against Indigenous land-based ways of knowing, in the very personal aftermath of global environmental collapse.
“…a gentle, emotional, immediate morality tale…timely, fascinating, and necessary.” –Toronto Star
"Yvette Nolan’s enduring play takes us through the pain of exclusion and the suffering of shunned women, to survival, remembering and reconnect-ion to community... this unplugging opens the heart and brings a lump to the throat. But those were tears of joy." –Susan Walker, Artsblog
“…The Unplugging is so funny, smart, and nuanced…” –The Snipe, Vancouver
Yvette Nolan Selected Awards & Honours
Massey Senior Fellow, Gina Wilkinson Award 2021, Gascon Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award 2021, among many others
Since 2008 Burnt Thicket Theatre has toured live plays to over 46 cities across Canada, from Halifax to Victoria. Based in Saskatoon since 2017.
Thank you to our sponsors:
SK Arts
Canada Council for the Arts
Dakota Dunes Community Development Corporation
SaskCulture
Creative Saskatchewan
Riversdale Neighbours Church
Élisabeth Foucault Fund for Youth Theatre
Stobbe Photo, Saskatoon
Globe Printers, Saskatoon
College Park Community Church