"A strange vision - I saw people going into a big hole
in the ground-strange people, not Dene, white people, I thought
they would harm my people…the people they dropped this
thing on looked like us, Dene"
- A Dene Medicine Man
In the late 1800's, a Dene Medicine man had a vision of a
burning coming from the sky. The vision came true, but the
burning was not in the sky over the Dene territory in the
North West Territories, it was in the sky over Japan. Burning
Vision traces the journey of uranium rock from its origins
embedded in Sahtu Dene territory, through water, over land,
and into fire - the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. Both
tragic and irreverent, Burning Vision weighs the burdens of
our ancestors as they travel through time, across continents
and into our genes to cast shadows on the present.
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At its Heart, Burning Vision is a play about the loss
of innocence - how we continue to genetically carry the burdens
of our ancestors and what impact this has on our own individual
journeys and the collective history we share. Using a style that
is both poetic and naturalistic, Burning Vision investigates the
cyclical or elliptical process of history and culture.
"I think the best stories happen like the wind; they envelop
you, surprise you, chill you, move you and warm you….
Marie Clements knows about the wind."
- Redwire Magazine
"…a brave new play that bombards the senses and
fires up the mind…"
- The Globe and Mail
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