The Rough-Face Girl
Premiere | August 2020
Choreography | Julianna Slager
Costumes | Lorianne Robertson
Music | R. Carols Nakai, Tony Duncan
The Algonquin tribe’s folklore of the Rough-Face Girl is one of the most haunting, powerful versions of the Cinderella tale ever told. In a village by the shores of Lake Ontario lived an invisible man. All the young women wanted to marry him because he was rich, powerful, and supposedly very handsome. But the legend was that to marry the invisible man the women had to prove to his sister that they had seen him. And none had been able to get past the sister's stern, all-knowing gaze.
Then came the rough-face girl, scarred from working by the fire. Could she succeed where her beautiful, cruel sisters had failed?
