Cliff Cardinal has a bone to pick with land acknowledgments. Cardinal wasn’t thinking of doing anything theatrical with this beef, but Crow’s Theatre artistic director Chris Abraham got in touch during the pandemic and asked if Cardinal might be interested in creatively exploring land acknowledgments. Some people think it’s about having a message or changing the world, and I don’t think it’s about that. It was called “William Shakespeare’s As You Like It: A Radical Retelling by Cliff Cardinal,” but it had nothing to do with Shakespeare. “And we said, ‘Yes, please.’”The show that Mirvish and Crow’s Theatre are currently co-presenting at the CAA Theatre is called “The Land Acknowledgement, or As You Like It” and the marketing materials reveal that this is not a production of Shakespeare.

Source: The Star March 14, 2023 22:02 UTC