The century after colonial contact is a fascination for Adam; Dark Heart is the prequel to Deceitful Above All Things, which premiered at the 2015 SummerWorks Festival, and is part of a planned New France Trilogy. Genevieve Adam’s Dark Heart is a sexy thriller set in 17th-century New France depicting interactions between settler and Indigenous communities. Dark Heart opens with the soldier Amable Bilodeau (Michael Iliadis) stumbling into an intrigue-filled community when he rescues the Métis fur trader Toussaint Langlois (Garret C. Smith, who is Blackfoot from the Peigan and Kainai Tribes in Alberta) from drowning in a river. This is a humdinger of a role — independent, clever, necessarily pragmatic, and unapologetically lusty — that the playwright Adam takes on herself with effective relish. It’s this kind of smart and sophisticated work that keeps Toronto’s indie theatre scene vital.

Source: thestar January 27, 2018 22:18 UTC