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The Unnatural and Accidental Women is a play by Metis playwright Marie Clements about the disappearance of multiple Indigenous women [1] from the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver whose deaths of extremely high blood-alcohol levels were all caused by one man, Gilbert Paul Jordan.
Jan 1, 2005 · The Unnatural and Accidental Women is an homage to the real Vancouver murder case of 8 Indigenous women whose deaths got classified as “unnatural and accidental”. This book is the writing of the play inspired by the true events.
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- Marie Clements
May 23, 2023 · The coroner's reports listed the cause of death of many of these women as "unnatural and accidental."" "Marie Clements reconstructs the lives of these women as shaped by lost connections - to loved ones, to the land, to a way of life.
The Unnatural and Accidental Women, was first performed on November 2, 2000 at Vancouver’s Firehall Arts Centre and was a co-directed by herself and Donna Spencer, the artistic director of the Firehall Arts Centre at the time. It was received with great acclaim, as Zoe Leigh Hopkins’s review in. Raven’s Eye. attests:
and Accidental Women (UAW). Based on a true story of a man who killed at least ten indigenous women in Vancouver, British Columbia (B.C.), by poisoning them with alco-hol, Clements recreates/rethinks the events from the victims’ points of view.
- Sharon Sullivan
- 2013
Feb 11, 2021 · Marie Clements’ understudied 2005 play The Unnatural and Accidental Women, this essay will argue, both dramatizes marginalized and murdered indigenous women reclaiming their voices and acts as a me...
The Unnatural and Accidental Women is a surrealist dramatization of a thirty-year murder case involving many mysterious deaths in the “Skid Row” area of Vancouver. All the victims were found dead with a blood-alcohol reading far beyond safe levels, and all were last seen in the company of Gilbert Paul Jordan, who frequented the city’s ...
