“Collaborative playwrights dig into difficult history,” Ben Waldman, Winnipeg Free Press, 09/25/2024
“Opening at the Rachel Browne Theatre today, (Sept. 25), Owl Calling is centred on one family’s experience navigating the independent assessment process, or IAP, established as a method of resolution to claims of serious physical, sexual or emotional abuse suffered at Indian residential schools.
“’There was an assumption, I think, early on in Indigenous and First Nations communities, that the process would assist in healing. It didn’t seem robust enough to actually assist through the entirety of the healing process. And very well, there could have been a few that it did assist, and it did work out, but it mostly seemed a retraumatization, and the aftercare was not significant enough in order to assist those individuals.’”
