A person wearing a ruff collar crouches under stage lights, surrounded by people in casual clothing. The background is dark red, with dramatic lighting highlighting the central figure’s face.

Prep School: Cliff Cardinal

“As You Like It” is one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies – revitalized in Cliff Cardinal‘s fresh take on the classic, which raises questions of belonging, legacy and the element of surprise.

Learn more about Cliff Cardinal’s multidisciplinary work.

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Recommended readings to get you in gear for the show.

Glen Sean Coulthard, Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Jenny Davis, Trickster Academy. University of Arizona Press, 2022.

Heather Dorries & Michelle Daigle (eds.), Land Back: Relational Landscapes of Indigenous Resistance Across the Americas. Dumbarton Oaks, 2024.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Beacon Press, 2015.

bell hooks, Belonging: A Culture of Place. Routledge, 2008.

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How Cliff Cardinal’s annoyance with land acknowledgments became a provocative piece of theatre

Cliff Cardinal has a bone to pick with land acknowledgments.

Toronto Star | March 14, 2023

Cliff Cardinal’s As You Like It: A Radical Retelling is art as an intervention

“I fucking hate land acknowledgements.”

Fulcrum | Jan 28, 2023

EXTRA CREDIT

NYU’s Native Studies Forum has developed an in-depth “Guide to Indigenous Land and Territorial Acknowledgments for Cultural Institutions,” which includes extensive resources and additional reading.