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This Is How We Got Here

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Simultaneously heartbreaking and heartwarming, This is How We Got Here follows a close-knit family as they deal with an unexpected loss. A mother, father, aunt, and uncle must learn how to move for...
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  • 03 April 2018
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It’s been a year since Paul and Lucille’s son Craig committed suicide, and their once-solid family bonds are starting to break down. While the now-separated couple tries to honor their son, Lucille’s sister Liset and her husband Jim refuse to discuss their nephew. The ties that keep the four together as sisters, best friends, and spouses are strained by grief and guilt… until a visit from a fox changes everything.
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Price: $17.95
Pages: 128
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Imprint: Playwrights Canada Press
Publication Date: 03 April 2018
Trim Size: 8.38 X 5.38 in
ISBN: 9781770918221
Format: Paperback
BISACs: DRAMA / Indigenous, DRAMA / Canadian
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“While the material of This is How We Got Here is deep, the show didn’t leave me feeling anything dark. Instead, I was happy to have experienced the talent of everyone involved, and to have gained perspective on what I felt were honest and true reactions to the tragedy of suicide.” —Jeff Kerr, Mooney on Theatre

Keith Barker is a Métis artist from Northwestern Ontario and the former artistic director at Native Earth Performing Arts. Currently he is Director of the Foerster Bernstein New Play Development Program at the Stratford Festival. In 2023 Keith was a recipient of the Johanna Metcalf Prize and in 2020 he received a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play and the Playwrights Guild of Canada’s Carol Bolt Award. Keith was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama in 2018 for This Is How We Got Here. He received a Saskatchewan and Area Theatre Award for Achievement in Playwriting for The Hours That Remain, as well as a Yukon Arts Award for Best Art for Social Change. Keith returned to the stage in 2023, playing Louis Riel in Frances Koncan’s Women of the Fur Trade for the Stratford Festival. Other acting credits include Richard Hannay in Bruce County Playhouse’s The 39 Steps, Cornwall in the National Arts Centre’s production of King Lear, Roger Hughes in Seeds, and Bernard Smoke in Fury at the Blyth Festival. In 2025, Keith directed The Art of War by Yvette Nolan for the Stratford Festival.