'We are healing': New Vancouver-based play explores trauma and reconciliation

A new Vancouver-based play is tackling the painful legacy of residential schools and reconciliation by trying to balance grief with hope.

“When we are in that place of grief, we have to understand that hope is still a choice, and that’s what the play is about,” co-writer Rosemary Georgeson told North by Northwest host Sheryl MacKay.

Weaving Reconciliation: Our Way follows Old One, a character the writers have been developing for 15 years, and his relationship with his community and family after a lifetime of trauma.

“As First Nations people we’ve been reconciling for a long time — it’s not new to us,” lead writer Renae Morriseau said.