The Presentation House Theatre

The Edward Curtis Project is a modern-day picture story that creates a dialogue between Curtis and a Metis foreign correspondent named Angeline who finds herself slipping from existence -a situation forecast in Curtis’s turn-of-the-century book entitled The Vanishing Indian.

In her journey to recover from a traumatic experience, Angeline finds herself face-to-face with the controversial photographer who was obsessed with documenting the First People’s way of life he thought was dying out.

The juxtaposition of Curtis’s romantic photos with today’s realistic renderings challenges them both to face the cost of seeing. “This is an investigation across disciplines, artistic forms, race, gender, anthropology, appropriation, desire, drive, consumption, journalism, documentation and illusion,” says world-renowned playwright and co-director, Marie Clements.