Credits: Garrett Elliot Photography

Women of the Fur Trade

September 22nd – October 11th 2026
7:30 PM & 2:00 PM (weekends only)
Runtime: 100 minutes, no intermission

Key performances:
Pay What You Can: September 22nd | 7:30 PM
Masks required: Sunday, October 4th | 2:00 PM
Relaxed performance: Wednesday, October 7th | 7:30 PM
Artist talkback: Thursday, October 8th | 7:30 PM

Neptune Theatre Scotiabank Studio Stage

Thousand Island Playhouse’s production of Women of the Fur Trade, by Frances Koncan, co-presented by Prismatic Arts Festival and Neptune Theatre.

     

Set in eighteen hundred and something-something, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory, three very different women with a preference for 21st century slang find themselves stuck in a fort having tea and sharing their views on life, love, and Louis Riel. 

Playwright Frances Koncan shifts the focus in this powerfully funny satire from the male gaze on history to the power of women and their place in the rapidly changing world of the Canadian fur trade.

Personnel

Joelle Peters | “Eugenia”
Danella Charette | “Marie-Angelique”
Alison Beckwith | “Cecilia”
Elliot Gosh | “Louis Riel”
Eli Ham | “Thomas Scott”
Frances Koncan | Writer
Keith Barker | Director
Jay Havens | Set Designer
Asa Benally | Costume Designer
Kahentanó:ron Brianna Montour | Lighting Designer
Lucas Ruddell | Sound Designer
Stephanie Fung | Apprentice Director
Rebecca Eamon Campbell | Stage Manager
Abigaile Gagnon | Apprentice Stage Manager