Other performance work

One More Story

Photo by Dan Froese

One More Story is a specially curated collection of shalan's oral stories that weave together old teachings and new thoughts. Through narrative performance and song, she shares of the land, our history, and our future.

Average length of performance is 60 minutes.

Afterwards, shalan hosts an open Q&A or discussion for all those interested.

To inquire about booking, please contact:

info@shalanjoudry.com

Photo by Frank Meuse

Example of a short oral story shalan created for the 2020 Creative NS Gala Awards, presented through HEIST:

ELAPULTIEK

(ehl-ah-bool-dee-ek)

"we are looking towards"

shalan's first full-length play, written and performed in 2018 and 2019.

Synopsis: A young Mi’kmaw drum singer and a Euro-Nova Scotian biologist meet at dusk each day to count a population of endangered Chimney Swifts. As the relationship deepens over time, they struggle with their differing views of the world. Each ‘count night’ reveals a deeper complexity of connection to land, history, and ecology, and of reconciliation on a personal level.

A typical performance is about 75 minutes. Originally created for outdoors and around the fire, this show can also be adapted for an indoor performance in-the-round (audience in a circle around the two actors) or stage setting.

The show was a great success during Two Planks and a Passion Theatre's 2018 summer season and subsequent tour in the fall of 2019.

You can now buy the script in book form:

here.

Photo by Macky Schwartz

"I think part of the message of this play, and part of what we all have to learn to do is listen more powerfully," from Elapultiek director, Ken Schwartz, Two Planks and A Passion Theatre.

“Being non-indigenous, the experience of seeing the Mi’kmaw play Elapultiek is both illuminating and warming...joudry’s quiet passion is clear in both her words and her acting as Nat, who is feisty but falters when the odds are stacked against her.” Elissa Barnard, NS reviews

Elapultiek was commissioned and first produced by Two Planks and a Passion Theatre and opened at the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts in Canning, Nova Scotia, Mi’kma’ki on

August 25th, 2018 with the following cast and crew:

Natawintoq: shalan joudry

Bill: Matthew Lumley

Director: Ken Schwartz

Drum Singer: shalan joudry

Stage Manager: Robin Munro

Dramaturge: Matthew Lumley

Photo by Macky Schwartz