Rattle
A Sixties Scoop Play
June 3-7, 2026
The Play: October 2017. Winnipeg.
Dan and Bobbie have lived on the same North End street for years and consider themselves family. They also share a similar history – both were taken from their Indigenous mothers as small children and adopted out into non-Indigenous families.
They lost their family, their culture, their identity. Twenty years later, the call for reconciliation will change their lives, and their families’, in unexpected ways.
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.
Previous productions
Owl Calling (2024)
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.