Indigenous theatre artist Cliff Cardinal says his solo show “The Land Acknowledgement, or As You Like It” is “very much a standup comedy piece that deals with our political places within Canada.”
“The first time I heard it I thought it was wonderful,” the Indigenous playwright and performer said of the now standard practice in Canada of verbally recognizing the Indigenous Peoples who were the original inhabitants of the land where a public event is happening.
“I said no, not really,” recalled Cardinal. “But then he said that he would pay me and that’s what theatre’s all about.”“Well, yeah. Some people think it’s about having a message or changing the world, and I don’t think it’s about that. I think the most honest thing that you can do with an audience is earn their money and have them come back next time,” he said.
“It’s very much a standup comedy piece that deals with our political places within Canada, and we lied to people to come and see the show,” said Cardinal.It was to avoid preaching to the converted, said Cardinal. “We were concerned at the time that the people who would self-select to see Cliff Cardinal’s land acknowledgment would already be on side with the message.”
“A big part of my relationship to being an Indigenous person living in a society that didn’t think I was going to be here,” said Cardinal. “I’m supposed to be dead right now.” Word started travelling in theatre circles about the show’s audacity and outspokenness, which many found refreshing: Cardinal was saying things about the performativity and predictability of land acknowledgments that many people privately thought but hesitated to express.
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