'Assimilation' flips boarding school script

November 10, 2015

University Relations

"Assimilation," a play to be staged Nov. 20-22 by Theatre UAF, flips the script on the boarding school history that plagued indigenous people around the world.

In Alaska playwright Jack Dalton's imagined future, the Natives run the boarding school and the whites are assimilated. Following the performances, talking and healing circles will be held to discuss the actual history, allowing survivors a safe place to share their experiences and those unknowing of this history to offer support and reconciliation.

Play times and dates are 7:30 p.m. Nov. 20 and 21 and 2 p.m. Nov. 22. All performances will be in the University of Alaska Fairbanks' Salisbury Theatre, on the east side of the Regents' Great Hall.

Advance tickets are $16 for adults, $8 for students and $12 for military personnel and seniors 65 and older. Tickets are $2 more at the door.