For those who didn’t manage to catch the performance of the Trial of Louis Riel in Moose Jaw earlier this month, there’s still time to see the show during its season in Regina.
This year is the 125th anniversary of the 1885 Northwest Resistance and 2010 has also been designated as the Year of the Métis.
The Trial of Louis Riel by John Coulter was commissioned in 1967 as a project to celebrate Canada's centennial anniversary and is based upon actual court transcripts of the trial - arguably the most famous trial in the country’s history.
The show is performed every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Shumiatcher Theatre of the MacKenzie Art Gallery at the T.C. Douglas Building until the end of July.
The performance features Moose Jaw actor Russ McKnight, who plays
Francis Lemiux, one of Riel's defence attorneys.
Everyone is invited to stay after the show to ask questions or take pictures of the actors.
For more information about the play, see www.rielcoproductions. com.
