Nolan was inspired to write The Art of War after seeing the work of Canadian war artists in the years leading up to the 2005 opening of the new Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.The Canadian Forces Artists Program, which evolved from the war art programs of the First and Second World Wars, is still active today and recruiting artists to deploy with the Canadian military.First produced by Hardly Art Theatre at the Remai Arts Centre BackStage Stage, Saskatoon, on November 9, 2023.

First produced in January 2020 at Persephone Theatre in SaskatoonThe music by Lancelot Knight is critical for giving space to reflect due to the hard truths being spoken.Joel Bernbaum already had fifty interviews collected for a play on race relations when Colten Boushie was murdered, which changed the conversations he was having-he found that people were speaking with a new raw kind of honesty-and thus informed the format of the play.

Contemporary Indigenous theatre in Canada is only thirty-three years old, if one begins counting from the premiere of Maria Campbell's Jessica in Saskatoon and the establishment of Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto. Since those contemporaneous events in 1982, the Canadian community of Indigenous theatre artists has grown and inspired one another. Medicine Shows: Indigenous Performance Culture traces the work of a host of these artists over the past three decades, illuminating the connections, the artistic genealogy, and the development of a contemporary Indigenous theatre practice. Neither a history nor a chronicle,Medicine Shows examines how theatre has been used to make medicine, reconnecting individuals and communities, giving voice to the silenced and disappeared, staging ceremony, and honouring the ancestors.

In a post-apocalyptic world, Bern and Elena are exiled from their village. Their crime? The two women are no longer of child-bearing age. Forced to rely upon traditional wisdom for their survival, Elena and Bern retreat from the remains of civilization to a freezing, desolate landscape where they attempt to continue their lives after the end of the world. When a charismatic stranger from the village arrives seeking their aid, the women must decide whether they will use their knowledge of the past to give the society that rejected them the chance at a future.

Annie Mae's Movement explores what it must have been like to be Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a woman in a man's movement, a Canadian in America, an Aboriginal in a white-dominant culture at a time when it felt like we could really change the world. Dying under mysterious circumstances, it is still unclear what really happened to Anna Mae back in the late 70s. Instead of recounting cold facts, this play looks for the truth in examining the life and death of this remarkable Aboriginal woman; that we cannot know the consequences of our actions; that we live on in the work that we do and the people we affect long after we have passed from this world.