Super, Unnatural, British Columbia! - Dramatizing the Dead First Nations Female Body as Metonym for BC Regionalism:  Marie Clements's The Unnatural and Accidental Women

"Where do women walk to when they have been fallen?" (Clements 492)

In a special issue of Canadian Theatre Review aptly titled, "Staging the Pacific Province," Reid Gilbert in retrospect of the (first) 2000 BC Theatre conference, proposes whether one can theorize an authentic category, "BC Theatre."  It become a perverse category worth analysing when the single demonstrative, yet significant script that is inscribed into the issue is Métis Marie Clements's The Unnatural and Accidental Women (1999).  The play is based on documentary sources regarding the serial murder in Vancouver's downtown eastside between 1965 and 1987.  In response to unfolding current events regarding another Vancouver serial killer, the timing of the CTR issue, Gilbert's editorial, and Clements's evocative work all become increasingly urgent with their theories on re/presenting the Pacific province that challenge and contest pre-conceived definitions of BC regional space.  Thus, Clements's perverse re-visioning of dead First Nations female bodies is key in the continual, yet crucial search for an understanding of the Pacific province's dramatisation - onstage and off.