The production places the audience in an Indigenous residential school classroom. Spectators are invited to put on blindfolds while clergy and classmates move around them, so that the child within each viewer comes to the surface.
The piece asks what might emerge from this troubled and relatively recent period, and whether losing sight could reduce the distance between people. It also considers how audiences might look further ahead at relations between First Nations and non-Indigenous people.
It is performed in the Salle Fred-Barry at Théâtre Denise-Pelletier, daily at 19:00, as part of Festival Voix Mortes 2026.
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Fabrice Girard
Performer credited in the theatre production Ka Uinaksheshet Les enfants sales at Théâtre Denise-Pelletier, part of Festival Voix Mortes 2026. The play is set in the classroom of an Indigenous residential school, and the audience watches blindfolded.
Suzie Kanapé Fontaine
Performer credited in the theatre production Ka Uinaksheshet Les enfants sales at Théâtre Denise-Pelletier, part of Festival Voix Mortes 2026. The play is set in the classroom of an Indigenous residential school, and the audience watches blindfolded.
Jeanne Moreau-Vollant
Performer credited in the theatre production Ka Uinaksheshet Les enfants sales at Théâtre Denise-Pelletier, part of Festival Voix Mortes 2026. The play is set in the classroom of an Indigenous residential school, and the audience watches blindfolded.
Simon Riverin
Credited in the theatre production Ka Uinaksheshet Les enfants sales at Théâtre Denise-Pelletier, part of Festival Voix Mortes 2026. He is also named in the artist description alongside Pierre Berlioux and Julien-Claude Charlebois.
Xavier Watso
Performer credited in the theatre production Ka Uinaksheshet Les enfants sales at Théâtre Denise-Pelletier, part of Festival Voix Mortes 2026. The play is set in the classroom of an Indigenous residential school, and the audience watches blindfolded.
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