Rattle: A Sixties Scoop Play (Winnipeg event)
June 3 @ 7:30 pm - June 7 @ 2:00 pm
Asper Centre for Theatre and Film
Note: This event takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Root Sky Theatre, in association with Theatre Incarnate, is proud to premiere Rattle: A Sixties Scoop Play at the University of Winnipeg’s Asper Centre for Theatre & Film, June 3 – 7, 2026. Rattle is based on the true stories of Sixties Scoop survivors Robert Doucette and Roberta MacKinnon.
Dan and Bobbie have lived on the same North End street for decades and consider themselves family. They also share a similar history – both were taken from their Indigenous mothers as small children and adopted out into white families. They lost their family, their culture, their identity. Dan, now working for a Métis organization, has faced his past and is fighting for the future of fellow Sixties Scoop survivors. Bobbie is not so sure she wants to know why her mother gave her up as a newborn infant. Both their lives, and their families’, will be changed in unexpected ways as they struggle to understand who they are and where they belong. Rattle received an award for Best Full-Length Play in the Theatre BC Canadian National Playwriting Competition for 2022.
It is the fourth in a series of plays by Brandon University professors Darrell Racine and Dale Lakevold that explores Indigenous culture and history in Canada.
Sharing Circle for Survivors & Those Affected:
June 3 — 5 (2 — 4 p.m.) / June 6 — 7 (10 a.m. — 12 noon)
Performances:
7:30 p.m. nightly (June 3 — 6)
2 p.m. matinee (June 6 — 7)
Venue:
Asper Centre for Theatre and Film
400 Colony St., Winnipeg MB Tickets:
$25 | $35 If You Can | $10 Limited Income
