
Firehall Arts Centre presents: Women of the Fur Trade
This winter, the Firehall Arts Centre is proud to produce and present Women of the Fur Trade.
Running from Saturday, February 8 to Sunday, February 23, 2025, this play is set in eighteen hundred and something-something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory. Three very different women with a preference for 21st century slang find themselves stuck in a fort having tea and sharing their views on life, love, and Louis Riel.
Playwright Frances Koncan shifts the focus in this powerfully funny satire from the male gaze on history to the power of women and their place in the rapidly changing world of the Canadian fur trade.
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“I am truly excited to be producing the West Coast premiere of this work,” says Firehall Arts Centre’s Artistic Producer Donna Spencer.
“Frances Koncan’s satirical look at the lives of women during the time of Louis Riel and the colonization of Canada is a very clever way of illustrating the dismantling of the traditional lives of Métis and Indigenous people of the time. Mixing contemporary references with historical actions allows the story of the play to be told in a manner that takes us from the present to the past and back again.”
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Firehall Arts Centre presents: Women of the Fur Trade
- Opening Night: Wednesday, February 12 at 7:30pm
- Previews: February 8 at 3pm and 7:30pm | February 9 at 3pm | February 12 at 1pm
- Performance Times: Wednesday – Saturday: 7:30pm | Saturday and Sunday: 3pm | PWYC on Wednesday at 1pm
- Matinees: February 13 and 20 at 1pm
- Post Show Talkback: February 13 and 20 at 7:30pm
- Tickets: Starting from $30
