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About The Show
Director Katey Wattam has developed a fantastical interpretation of Marchessault’s text that blurs the line between human and animal, mother and daughter, sky and earth, inviting audiences into the milky ecstasy of liberation.
Night Cows is a one-woman show by Quebecois Queer Indigenous self-taught artist, creator and writer, Jovette Marc
Director Katey Wattam has developed a fantastical interpretation of Marchessault’s text that blurs the line between human and animal, mother and daughter, sky and earth, inviting audiences into the milky ecstasy of liberation.
Night Cows is a one-woman show by Quebecois Queer Indigenous self-taught artist, creator and writer, Jovette Marchessault. Her work has a deep and lyrical ancestral voice, which celebrates words through myths and an indulgence of liberating poetic language. Marchessault emerged into Quebec’s literary scene in the late 1970s, a time that was “marked by the dominance of the feminine”. Her evocative text subverts conventional modes of language and genre to carve out a space for her own sphere of action to take place, separating from the patriarchal traditions that contrived her foremothers.
MoonCow Theatre Co. presents an abridged version of its haunting adaptation of Nights Cows, the 1979 seminal theatrical text by Marchessault.
It begins at dusk. A vachette describes her mother as she removes the shackles of the day and society transforming herself into a sensual, grotesque, night cow. She opens herself in two, she splits h
MoonCow Theatre Co. presents an abridged version of its haunting adaptation of Nights Cows, the 1979 seminal theatrical text by Marchessault.
It begins at dusk. A vachette describes her mother as she removes the shackles of the day and society transforming herself into a sensual, grotesque, night cow. She opens herself in two, she splits herself in four expanding into the milky way; her daughter riding her back as they go to wake the crows.
Bringing together Indigenous, Anglophone, and Francophone approaches, the intercultural production reclaims queer and feminist histories and asks its audience to imagine: what do liberation and connection feel like today?
Original Text: Jovette Marchessault
English Translation: Yvonne M. Klein
Hannah Kirby – Video & Sound Editor
Eléonore Lamothe – Audio Performer, Script Adaptation
Rosie Long Decter – Composer, Dramaturg
Anna Jane McIntyre – Puppet Design
Sophie Marisol – Puppet Design
Alexandra Montagnese – Puppeteer, Puppet Design & Construction
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Original Text: Jovette Marchessault
English Translation: Yvonne M. Klein
Hannah Kirby – Video & Sound Editor
Eléonore Lamothe – Audio Performer, Script Adaptation
Rosie Long Decter – Composer, Dramaturg
Anna Jane McIntyre – Puppet Design
Sophie Marisol – Puppet Design
Alexandra Montagnese – Puppeteer, Puppet Design & Construction
Katey Wattam – Director, Producer, Script Adaptation, Puppet Design & Construction
Myrna Wyatt-Selkirk – Puppetry Consultant
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