Le Wild West Show de Gabriel Dumont / Gabriel Dumont's Wild West Show

Au lendemain de la pendaison de Louis Riel en 1885, Gabriel Dumont, leader de la r?sistance m?tisse et chasseur de bisons, prend la fuite et se r?fugie aux ?tats-Unis. Il y est recrut? par Buffalo Bill, figure mythique reconnue pour ses Wild West Shows, des spectacles itin?rants qui repr?sentent la vie du Far West. Toute sa vie, Dumont r?vera de raconter, dans un spectacle ? grand d?ploiement, la lutte des M?tis pour la reconnaissance de leurs droits.



OEuvre dramatique joyeusement anachronique, Le Wild West Show de Gabriel Dumont - co?crit par dix auteurs et autrices autochtones et allochtones - donne vie au vieux r?ve de Dumont en mettant en sc?ne les ?v?nements qui ont men? ? la r?sistance du Nord-Ouest.



Publi? en co?dition avec Talonbooks (Vancouver), l'ouvrage contient deux versions, ? dominante fran?aise et anglaise. Il comprend aussi des visuels, une introduction et un dossier permettant de contextualiser la pi?ce.



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In 1885, following the hanging of his friend Louis Riel, M?tis Resistance leader and bison hunter Gabriel Dumont fled to the United States. There he was recruited by the legendary Buffalo Bill, founder of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, a gigantic outdoor travelling show that re-enacted life in the American West. Dumont dreamed of putting together a similar show to tell the story of the struggle of the M?tis to reclaim their rights.



The creative team behind Gabriel Dumont's Wild West Show - including ten authors, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, French- and English-speaking men and women - brings Dumont's dream to life in a captivating, joyously anachronistic saga with a rodeo vibe.



Co-published with Prise de parole (Sudbury), the work consists of two versions, one predominantly in English and the other predominantly in French.