Encounters at the Edge of the Woods: Answering Calls and Standing at the Edge of a Pandemic

Writing about her experience participating in Encounters at the Edge of the Woods, the first Indigenous play to show at Hart House Theatre, Trina Moyan (Nêhiyaw) weaves nêhiyaw worldviews, lines from the collectively created playscript, and impressions from the collective’s participants with connected thoughts on social distancing and colonialism. Moyan considers human relationships to kikâwînaw askîy (Mother Earth), the effects of shared storytelling across difference, and her own whiteface performance as she cautions us against siding with wîhtikow.