Theater houses and performance spaces throughout North America have in recent years gotten serious (some of them extravagantly serious) about land acknowledgements, taking care to publicly recognize the Indigenous peoples whose nations preceded the U.S. and Canada in these territories by thousands of years.
Still, relatively few companies build on their pre-show announcements to actually present new, dramatically rich work by or about the Native Americans whose land, and lives, are being acknowledged. So kudos to Round House for championing On the Far End (★★★☆☆), a solo stage bio of Muscogee (Creek) Nation activist and organizer Ella Jean Hill, written and performed by Mary Kathryn Nagle, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
A world premiere production, running in repertory…
