Rattle
A Sixties Scoop Play
Coming June 3-7, 2026
The Play: October 2017. Winnipeg.
Two best friends – Bobbie and Dan — share an uncommon bond. They were both taken as little kids from their Indigenous moms and adopted out into white families.
They lost their family, their culture, their identity. It was called the Sixties Scoop.
Twenty years later they’re trying to put their lives back together. Will they make it?
Rattle received an award for Best Full-Length Play in the Theatre BC Canadian National Playwriting Competition for 2022. It is the fourth in a series of plays by Darrell Racine and Dale Lakevold that explores Indigenous culture and history in Canada.
Owl Calling
The Play: Summer 2011. Winnipeg. Two best friends and brothers-in-law, Eddie and Jim, make the decision to deal with the effects of their residential school experience. They’re on a healing journey, but will they make it?
In 2024, Owl Calling introduced audiences to a close knit, Indigenous family in suburban Winnipeg and their struggle to find reconciliation.
An emotional journey of heartache, laughter, romance and music.
Root Sky Theatre Company was formed in 1997 by Darrell Racine and Dale Lakevold to produce theatre and other arts projects with a cultural and political focus. The company is devoted primarily, but not exclusively, to producing work on Indigenous and Metis subjects.