Long Live the Queen - Mary Sloan

Commissioner of Yukon Adeline Webber, in her capacity as Chancellor of the Order of Yukon, is honoured to announce the 2024 inductees to the Order of Yukon. This year’s inductees are Nesta Leduc, Mary Sloan and Joseph Rudolphe (Rudy) Couture.

— Three Yukoners to receive the Order of Yukon

This is an incredible achievement for all three, but the one I am most familiar with is Mary Sloan, one of my high school theatre teachers that piqued my interest in theatre and the performing arts long ago. I wrote quite a bit about her nearly ten years ago when she retired from teaching in my post titled Exit the Queen.

I am glad that she will be recognized for all her work with youth in the school system in the Yukon and her work more broadly in the arts community, which still continues to this day.

Exit The Queen

You are going to die in an hour and a half. You are going to die at the end of the play. — Queen Marguerite, Exit the King My real introduction to theatre1 began with Eugene Ionesco’s, Exit the King. It was a small production at The Guild, in the

Four SidesJames McCullough