Language and miscommunication are at the centre of a new trilingual musical that takes place nearly 400 years ago during the early era of European colonization in North America.
Vancouver-based artist Corey Payette, who wroteChildren of God, an emotional musical about Canada’s residential school system, has teamed with fellow writer Julie McIsaac to bring the story of the Les Filles du Roi, told from an Indigenous perspective, to the stage.
The title refers to the term given to young French women (King’s Daughters) who were sent to Canada by the French government to help populate the new world.
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