How Cliff Cardinal's play tricked audiences into confronting Canada's relationship with Indigenous people

Q20:41Cliff Cardinal on his confrontational play The Land Acknowledgement, or As You Like It

Award-winning actor and playwrightCliff Cardinal is known for mischief.

Two years ago, he invited audiences to come see a play, which hecalled a "radical retelling" of William Shakespeare's As You Like It.

Crowds packed into the Crow's Theatre in Toronto ready to see a Shakespeare play, but what they got instead was very different. In the ultimate bait-and-switch, Cardinal delivered an urgent monologue about Canada's relationship with Indigenous people.

Now, hisprovocative one-man show is back on stage in Toronto.It's been renamed The Land Acknowledgement, or As You Like It and runs at the CAA Theatre until April 2. Cardinaljoined Tom Power to talk about it.

The full interview with Cliff Cardinal is available onour podcast, Q with Tom Power. Listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

Interview with Cliff Cardinal produced by Vanessa Greco.