Play about a fictional residential school running in Toronto

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Richard Comeau got quite a bit more than he bargained for when he agreed to help workshop a play four years ago.

The setting for that play, co-written by Metis playwright Jani Lauzon and Kaitlyn Riordan, who is non-Indigenous, is titled 1939.

Comeau is now appearing in his third run of the play, which is presented by Canadian Stage at Toronto’s Berkeley Street Theatre. Opening night was Sept. 15 and the Toronto run continues until Oct. 6.

Comeau, who is now 41, plays Joseph Summers, a 17-year-old boy in the play, which is set at a fictional residential school in northern Ontario.

Since King George VI is coming to the school for a visit, a teacher gets her students to produce the play All’s Well That Ends Well.

Students at the school, however, have differing views from their teacher about how the play should be performed once they find parallels between themselves and characters they are portraying.

“I fell in love with it,” Comeau said of when he workshopped the play.

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TICKETS: Tickets for the Toronto run of 1939 can be purchased through https://my.canadianstage.com/events