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THE CHARACTERS

 

This page is to familiarize the audience with the characters in Almighty Voice and his Wife. Our main characters include: Almighty Voice and one of Almighty Voice's wives, also known as White Girl in the play. Later in the play Almighty Voice becomes of a ghost of himself and the White Girl assumes the role of the Interlocutor. However, since I chose to concentrate on the real history aspect of this story, here is a quick overview of the characters from Act I.

Almighty Voice

 

Almighty Voice, also known as Kisse-Manitou-Wayou and Jean Baptiste (John Baptist), was raised by John Sounding Sky and Spotted Calf on a reserve near the South Saskatchewan River (NAD). His tribe, the One Arrow Cree, faced starvation and disease which lead to them creating a treaty with Europeans who were now moving into Saskatchewan. In the month of October in 1895, Almighty Voice was imprisoned for killing a cow that did not rightfully belong to him, the punishment would have probably not been too severe but a Mountie began joking with that him that we would be hanged for his crime, this lead to Almighty Voice to escaping the prison and fleeing to his mother's home. He was finally apprehended by another Mountie a week or so later and Almighty Voice shot and killed the man trying to apprehend him (NAD). Now wanted for murder, he eluded the Mounties for several months until finally being discovered on One Arrow Reserve with two of his companions (NAD). This lead to a confrontation and ended up with Almighty Voice being cornered by the Mounties, at the end of the confrontation, Almighty Voice, his two companions, and three others were killed (NAD).

 

 

White Girl

 

"White Girl" was discovered in Moses' research of Almighty Voice. There was accounts of a girl being there when Almighty Voice encountered and killed the Mountie that was searching for him after his escape from jail, and other accounts that Almighty Voice's fourth wife was the thirteen year old daughter of an Indian named Old Dust (NAD). Moses decided that these two accounts must have represented the same person, and with this character he could create a love story along of the lines of Bonnie and Clyde (NAD). White Girl was brought up an industrial area and a school that was established to assimilate the children of Saskatchewan into their Christian and non-Native Canadian society (NAD). In the first act, we get to see the relationship between White Girl and Almighty Voice, all the way from the beginning of their courtship to the death of Almighty Voice. 

Pi Theatre's White Girl - Photo by Nir Baraket

Almighty Voice - Image retrieved from PAnow.com

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