Rattle:
A Sixties Scoop Play
A national award winning play
by Darrell Racine & Dale Lakevold
Directed by Charlene Van Buekenhout & Cory Wojcik
Produced by Root Sky Theatre Company
In Association with Theatre Incarnate
Coming June 3-7, 2026
Asper Center for Theatre and Film
400 Colony St., Winnipeg MB
With Major Funding by the National Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation of Canada
Sponsored by the Riverton & District Friendship Centre
Best Play Award
Theatre BC Canadian National Playwriting Competition for 2022
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.
In agreement with Canadian Actors’ Equity Association
About Root Sky Theatre Company
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.
Funding support for Rattle
National Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation of Canada, Manitoba Arts Council Share-Present Program, Faculty of Arts Dean’s Office at Brandon University, Brandon University Research Committee, Professional Development Allowance (Brandon University), WS and Clara Lakevold Estate, Rowe Foundation (Brandon University), and the Riverton & District Friendship Centre.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Manitoba Association of Playwrights (MAP), Brian Drader and Daniel Thau-Eleff, Rory Runnells, Grant Hamilton and Rob Henderson (Brandon University Communications), Sally Mott, Laurence Lemoine, Melissa Ballard, Dr. Greg Kennedy (Dean of Arts at BU), Indigenous Peoples’ Centre (BU), Sally Spiss, Julia Herr, Kerry Murkin, Cheryl Racine, Chris Lagimodiere, Office of the Associate Vice President Indigenous Iniatives (BU), Dr. Velvet Maud, Dr. Deanna Smid, Department of English, Drama, & Creative Writing (BU), Dr. Lisa Robson, Evan Keller, Kevin Klassen, Bill Lakevold and Clara Lakevold, Dr. Bernadette Ardelli, Rhea Susan, Brian Hay, Prairie Theatre Exchange, Tanis Grimolfson, Riverton & District Friendshiop, Gail Cullen, Brandon Friendship Centre, Leticia Racine, Doug Racine, Cindy Hanson, and Theatre Cercle Moliere.