STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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Kiinalik: These Sharp Tools
The Studio, Edinburgh
★★★★
BUDDIES in Bad Times Theatre Company claims to be Toronto’s leading destination for artistic and alternative theatre and a world leader in developing queer voices. Certainly singer-songwriter Evalyn Parry, and Inuit artist and performer Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory, bring something different to the Edinburgh Festival.
Their show rather than drama — although it is quite dramatic enough — is a mixture of convivial but instructive conversation, story and songs relating to the lives of these two Canadians from separate worlds, and explosive anger directed at the audience designed to illustrate the strangling colonial oppression of Bathory’s Inuit people, especially their women
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