By Sam Laskaris  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A play about a fictional residential school in northern Ontario is currently in previews and will have its world premiere on Sept. 11 at the Studio Theatre in Stratford, Ont. The play, titled 1939, was co-written by Jani Lauzon, a Metis playwright, and Kaitlyn Riordan, who is non-Indigenous. Both Lauzon and Riordan live in Toronto. The play takes the audience back to the year 1939 when five students of a residential school are anticipating a visit from King George VI, Queen Elizabeth’s father. Students at the school will perform All’s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare for the king, but they balk at the ideas of how it should be performed. Reluctant to be defined by colonial expectations, the five Indigenous students

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