Title: 400 Kilometres
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2005
Description:
roy comedy - self-awareness - Native peoples - Native playwrights five characters two male; three female two acts
Third play in Hayden-Taylor's hilarious and heart wrenching identity-politics trilogy. Janice Wirth, having discovered her roots as the Ojibway orphan Grace Wabung, and having visited her birth family on the Otter Lake Reserve, is pregnant, and must now come to grips with the question of her true 'identity'. Her adoptive parents have just retired, and are about to sell their house to embark on a quest for their own identity by 'returning' to England. Meanwhile, the Native father of her child-to-be is attempting to convince Janice/Grace that their coming child's future lies with
Title: Aboriginal Drama and Theatre
Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
Reference
There is much to discuss and this collection marks only a beginning in the process of watching, studying and understanding the complexity and liberative possibilities of Aboriginal drama and theatre in Canada. (Rob Appleford)
Title: According to Coyote in - Theatre for Young Audiences / CHC Author: Kauffman, John Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Description:
roy Native storytelling for children - monologue - Native peoples - Native tales all male cast; one male one male one act
A story of Coyote. 'Coyote is the mythicalogical trickster/hero of Plains and Plateau Indain tribes of the western United States. . . But Coyote isn't always as heroic as he might appear. Most of Coyote's supposedly great deeds were the results of mishaps or accidents as the sly Coyote was trying to manipulate someone. Therein lies the function of Coyote tales - they tell us how to behave, or more precisely, how not to behave.' Title: Agokwe in - Two-Spirit Acts / CCO Author: Fobister, Waawaate Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - LGBTQ+ - Native playwright - monologues all male cast; five characters one male (doubling) one act
"Mike is a hockey player and Jake is a dancer. The boys notice each other at the Kenora Shoppers Mall and ultimately connect through a mutual love of movement — when Mike is skating and Jake is dancing, "like grass blowing in the wind." Playing these and many more characters through the iconic, multifarious persona of Nanabush, the trickster, Waawaate Fobister intertwines the boys' attraction to each other through activities that traditionally separate gender and orientation. "Agokwe" (pronounced "agoo-kway; meaning "wise woman" or "Two-Spirited") is a remarkable and
Title: Almighty Voice
Author: Peterson, Leonard Publisher: Book Society Of Canada 1974
Description:
roy children - Canadian - historical - Native peoples four characters; extras three male; one female one act
A play that helps children to understand Native philosophy.
Title: Almighty Voice and His Wife
Author: Moses, Daniel David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - drama - Native playwright two characters one male; one female two acts
A young Cree couple woo and wed, but it's 1885, the generation after the Riel Rebellion. It's hard for any Indian to live happily ever after, unless one goes into show business. A retelling of historic incidents to create a play about the place of Native people in Canada. Title: Almighty Voice and His Wife in - Canadian Theatre Review No 68, Fall 1991 / PER Author: Moses, Daniel David Publisher: Miscellaneous 2001
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - drama - Native playwright two characters one male; one female two acts
A young Cree couple woo and wed, but it's 1885, the generation after the Riel Rebellion. It's hard for any Indian to live happily ever after, unless one goes into show business. A retelling of historic incidents to create a play about the place of Native people in Canada.
Title: Almighty Voice and His Wife in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 / CCO Author: Moses, Daniel David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - drama - Native playwright two characters one male; one female two acts
A young Cree couple woo and wed, but it's 1885, the generation after the Riel Rebellion. It's hard for any Indian to live happily ever after, unless one goes into show business. A retelling of historic incidents to create a play about the place of Native people in Canada.
Title: Almighty Voice and His Wife
Author: Moses, Daniel David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - drama - Native playwright two characters one male; one female two acts
A young Cree couple woo and wed, but it's 1885, the generation after the Riel Rebellion. It's hard for any Indian to live happily ever after, unless one goes into show business. A retelling of historic incidents to create a play about the place of Native people in Canada. Title: Alternatives
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2000
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters three male; three female two acts
"A very liberal contemporary couple - Angel, an urban Native science fiction writer: and Colleen, a Non-practising Jewish intellectual who teaches Native literature - have a dinner party. The guests at this little soiree are couples that represent what by now have become the cliched extremes of both societies-Angels former radical Native activist buddies: and Colleen's environmentally concerned vegetarian/veterinarian friends. The menu is of course shorthand for the irreconcilable cultural differences about to come to a head: moose roast and vegetarian lasagna."
Title: Annie Mae's Movement
Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1998
Description:
roy drama - biography - Native peoples - Native playwright seven characters one male; one female (doubling) one act
Annie Mae’s Movement explores what it must have been like to be Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a woman in a man’s movement, a Canadian in America, an Aboriginal in a white-dominant culture at a time when it felt like we could really change the world. Dying under mysterious circumstances, it is still unclear as to what really happened to Anna Mae back in the late 70s. Instead of recounting cold facts, this play looks for the truth from examining the life and death of this remarkable Aboriginal woman; that we cannot know the consequences of our actions; that we live on in the
Title: Annie Mae's Movement in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - biography - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright seven characters one male; one female (doubling) one act
Annie Mae’s Movement explores what it must have been like to be Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a woman in a man’s movement, a Canadian in America, an Aboriginal in a white-dominant culture at a time when it felt like we could really change the world. Dying under mysterious circumstances, it is still unclear as to what really happened to Anna Mae back in the late 70s. Instead of recounting cold facts, this play looks for the truth from examining the life and death of this remarkable Aboriginal woman; that we cannot know the consequences of our actions; that we live on in the Title: Aria in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 / CCO Author: Highway, Tomson Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1987
Description:
roy one woman play - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright all female cast; many characters one female (doubling) one act
Description not available.
Title: As Long as the Sun Shines in - Staging Alternative Albertas / CCO Author: Grant, Christina Dunn, Doug Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy Canadian drama - Native history - Alberta - Native peoples twenty characters; extras twelve male; eight female five scenes
'A dramatic re-enactment of the signing of Treaty No. 8 on June 21, 1899, at Lesser Slave Lake. This historiographic pageant, shuttling back and forth between then and now, uses a late twentieth-century narrator to introduce a series of tableaux which dramatize anxieties in late nineteenth century Cree and White communities about the signing of documents that effectively transformed Native history in the Athabasca, Mackenzie and Peace River Districts.'
Title: Baby Blues, The
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 1999
Description:
roy comedy - satire - Native peoples six characters three male; three female two acts
"Drew Hayden Taylor's highly wrought farce of patrimony in a politically correct, post-colonial milieu of 'fancy dancers' of every stripe on the Pow Wow Trail."
Winner of the Alaska State University Playwrights Award. Title: Bannock Republic
Author: Williams, Kenneth T. Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2011
Description:
roy comedy - Native peoples - Canadian - Native playwright four characters two male; two female (doubling possible) two acts
Find out what yoga, residential schools and the missing thirteenth floors have in common in this comedy by Kenneth T. WIlliams. BANNOCK REPUBLIC reunites the cousins Jacob and Isaac Thunderchild 10 years after the mayhem of THUNDERSTICK, This time a beautiful and vengeful third-part manager will wreak havoc with their lives. Jacob is working as a video journalist and barely clinging to his sobriety. Isaac is now chief of their reserve and trying to get the band out of debt. Destiny Charles, appointed to take over the band's finances, will make Jacob and Isaac
Title: Bereav'd of Light
Author: Ross, Ian Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2005
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - slavery - Native peoples all male cast; four characters four male ten scenes
"Wagoosh has a vision, and follows the signs south. Absalom, an escaped house slave, is running north. When the two meet, the inevitable clash of cultures leads us into little-explored historical territory - and on a strange and desperate flight from Abraham, the plantation owner. Red, black, and white, eventually the men must come to grips with the things that unite them as well as those that divide them. With humour, music, and poetry, Governor-General's Award-winner Ian Ross paints a compelling picture of the complex nature of race relations in 19th-century America."
Title: Berlin Blues, The
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2007
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters three male; three female two acts
A German conglomerate puts up $64 million for a theme park called Ojibway World. Their dream requires stepping on certain native traditions and offers temporary gains for what would be permanent losses of dignity. The Germans display ignorance of the culture, suggesting caribou and Rocky Mountain features, neither of these being indigenous to the Ojibway's region. If one needs an innocuous night of theatre, this can be taken as a series of funny events. Those hoping for something deeper can find allegories and metaphors pointing through history. Title: Beyond the Pale Dramatic writing from First Nations writers and writers of colour Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy - Canadian - collection - Native peoples
includes: Thy Creature Blues Hector Jay Buyan Mom, Dad, I'm Living With a White Girl - Marty Chan Sixty Below - Patti Flather and Leonard Linklater The Sniffer - Marvin Francis Angelique - Lorena Gale Man You Mus' - Bianca Jacob The Mercy Quilt - Lorre Jensen Noran Bang - M. J. Kang The Strength of Indian Women - Vera Manuel
Title: Beyond the Pale Dramatic writing from First Nations writers and writers of colour Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy - Canadian - collection - Native peoples
includes: Thy Creature Blues Hector Jay Buyan Mom, Dad, I'm Living With a White Girl - Marty Chan Sixty Below - Patti Flather and Leonard Linklater The Sniffer - Marvin Francis Angelique - Lorena Gale Man You Mus' - Bianca Jacob The Mercy Quilt - Lorre Jensen Noran Bang - M. J. Kang The Strength of Indian Women - Vera Manuel
Title: Birds, The in - Performing Back: Post-Colonial Canadian Plays / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015
Description:
roy comedy - fables - Native peoples - Native playwright twelve characters flexible casting one act
"The Birds" is an adaptation of the classical Greek play by Aristophanes. Nolan re-situates the birds in the play to Turtle Island (North America), recasting the two humans who visit the land of the birds as colonizers-come-lately, intent on remaking this Indigenous paradise in their own image. This comic fable brings a 21st century audience inside an Indigenous subjectivity, underscoring the striking realities underlying Indigenous and settler relationships. Title: Birdwoman and the Suffragettes: a Story of Sacajawea in - Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots / CCO Author: Mojica, Monique Publisher: Women's Press 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples fourteen characters five male; five female (doubling) radio play
Description not available.
Title: Birthright
Author: Skinner, Constance Lindsay Bryans, Joan Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples - discrimination eleven characters five male; six female (doubling possible) three acts
adapted by Joan Bryans
In the British Columbia frontier in 1905, missionary Robert Maclean has an ever-increasing foothold of power and influence. Into the swirling melee of shifting allegiances steps Precious Conroy, Maclean’s adopted daughter. She is unaware that she was sent away for schooling to avoid the shame and discrimination which would occur should the secret get out that she is part
Title: Blade in - A Map of the Senses / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - murder - Native peoples five characters one male; three female (doubling) one act
Woman reviews her murder after she has died. Title: Blade in - Blade / Job's Wife / Video / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: ArtBiz Communications 1995
Description:
roy drama - murder - Native peoples five characters one male; three female (doubling) one act
" 'Blade' is based on an incident in the playwrights life. It explores the consequences when a young woman is . . . mistakenly murdered by a psychopath who specializes in knifing prostitutes. . ."
Title: Blade in - Blade and Job's Wife; or, The Delivery of Grace / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1993
Description:
roy drama - murder - Native peoples five characters one male; three female (doubling) one act
published in Theatrum Magazine (Nov/Dec/Jan 1992/93).
Woman reviews her murder after she has died.
Title: Blade / Job's Wife / Video
Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: ArtBiz Communications 1995
Description:
roy - Canadian - collection - one acts - Native peoples
This volume contains: Blade Job's Wife Video
See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Blade and Job's Wife; or, The Delivery of Grace As published in Theatrum Magazine (Nov/Dec/Jan 1992/93) Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1993
Description:
roy - collection - Canadian - Yvette Nolan - Native peoples
includes: Blade Job's Wife; or, The Delivery of Grace
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Blizzard Leaves No Footprints, A in - A Blizzard Leaves No Footprints and Other Plays / CHC Author: Watts, Irene N. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy children - Canadian - Native peoples - fantasy - audience participation - Alberta playwright nine characters three female; one boy; one girl; four male or female one act
intended audience ages 4 to 10.
Two Inuit children rescue their mother who has been captured by the Blizzard spirit as a result of their negligence.
Title: Book of Jessica, The A theatrical transformation Author: Griffiths, Linda Campbell, Maria Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1989
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - women - Native peoples six characters three male; three female two acts
"Imagine one woman acting out another woman's life before that woman's eyes. Imagine that the woman improvising is white, and the woman watching is Metis. Imagine that the two women collaborate on a play; fight over the play; do not speak to each other for years, and finally reconcile, recording their tempestuous journey in a book which ends with the play." Title: Book of Jessica, The A theatrical transformation Author: Griffiths, Linda Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1989
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - women - Native peoples six characters three male; three female two acts
"Imagine one woman acting out another woman's life before that woman's eyes. Imagine that the woman improvising is white, and the woman watching is Metis. Imagine that the two women collaborate on a play; fight over the play; do not speak to each other for years, and finally reconcile, recording their tempestuous journey in a book which ends with the play."
Title: Bootlegger Blues, The
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Fifth House 1991
Description:
roy young adult - comedy - Canadian - Native peoples six characters three boys; three girls two acts
'This comedy is about love, family, and what to do with too much beer. Set on a reserve, it follows the plight of Martha, a church-going, teetotaling woman who finds herself stuck with 143 cases of beer after a church fundraiser fails. She decides to bootleg the beer, to the horror of her son Andrew, nicknamed Blue, who is a special constable on the reserve. Meanwhile, Andrew has fallen for a young woman he thinks is his cousin, and his sister Marianne is bored with her "Indian Yuppie" husband and finds herself attracted to a handsome dancer at the powwow. The pace is
Title: Boy in the Treehouse, The in - The Boy in the Treehouse; Girl Who Loved Her Horses / CCO Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples four characters three male; one female one act
"It deals with the dilemma of being from mixed parentage, specifically Native and non-Native, and the issues that involves. In this increasingly multicultural world, it's a matter that will become more and more relevant to our children as the years pass. Add to that the death of a parent and the world truly does become a confusing place for poor Simon." Title: Boy in the Treehouse; Girl Who Loved Her Horses, The
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2000
Description:
roy - Canadian - collection - Native peoples
This collection contains:
The Boy in the Treehouse Girl Who Loved Her Horses
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Boy Who Has A Horse
Author: LeMay, Bonnie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1974
Description:
roy children - drama - Native peoples - Alberta playwright - Alberta five characters four male; one female one act; nine scenes
Set in the years when Sitting Bull's people took refuge in Southern Alberta, a Sioux boy makes a difficult decision that will determine his future.
Title: Boy Who Lived with Bears, The in - Sprouts! / CHC Author: Elter, Sheldon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - children - Native peoples eight characters two male; two female (doubling) one act
length: 15 min.; setting: the forest; written for 5 to 12-year-olds.
This story was told to Sheldon Elter by an elder when he was young. He often dreamt that perhaps he was raised by bears, or at least that he should have been. As he grew up, he learned some hard lessons about excess and unnecessary things. When Concrete Theatre approached him to write a play for Sprouts, this story immediately came to mind. Title: Boy Who Tricked The Moon, The
Author: Grauer, Rita Publisher: Anchorage Press 1994
Description:
roy children - Native story - participation play - Native peoples seven characters five male; two female three acts
intended for audiences K -3
'When Clan Chief's son is spirited away by the Moon, in this mystical adventure incorporating masks and creative movement, it is lowly Orphan Boy who must save him. With much help from Sky Grandmother, Little Sky Sister and the audience - - the two boys escape from sky country in a triumph of ingenuity and friendship.'
Title: Braindead in - Stars in the Sky Morning / CCO Author: Innuinuit Theatre Company Nalujuk Players Publisher: Killick Press 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - addiction - drama - Native playwright seventeen characters five male; twelve female seven scenes
'The play, set in a native treatment center, dramatizes how the young people came to be there. 'Braindead' is optimistic in that the characters, without exception, seize the opportunity to overcome their problems by facing them squarely and by using whatever facilities are available for them to beat addiction.'
Title: Brébeuf's Ghost A tale of horror in three acts Author: Moses, Daniel David Publisher: Exile Editions 2000
Description:
roy dark comedy - native peoples - Canada - Canadian playwright - history sixteen characters eleven male; five female three acts
1649 brings bad news to the Ojibwa communities of Lake Nipissing. The Iroquois are on the warpath, killing traitors and Christians at the mission of Sainte Marie. Guess who's going to be next? The shaman is worried about windigos, the Black Robe about the fires of hell. Worlds collide in renowned First Nations playwright Daniel David Moses' epic dark, funny and finally healing vision of early Canada. Title: Buffalo Dance in - Sacred Earth Dramas / YCL Author: Class 5 (1990) Ecole Internationale de Genev Publisher: Faber and Faber 1993
Description:
roy children - Native peoples - environmental theatre large cast flexible casting three short acts
"Buffalo Dance" faithfully follows the concept of the tale describing the origins of the Blackfeet Indians' traditional Buffalo Dance, but differs in some significant ways. The scene is set by the suggestion that some of the Blackfeet warriors have upset the harmony of the tribe and the balance of nature by overhunting the buffalo. In the original story the father is alone when he searches for his daughter and it is he, rather than a brave, who is killed by the buffalo. Also, the buffalo does not accompany the father and daughter back to the camp and there is no mention of
Title: Burning Vision
Author: Clements, Marie Publisher: Talonbooks 2003
Description:
roy drama - historical - political issues - Native peoples - Native playwright seventeen characters twelve male; five female four movements
'Unmasks both the great lies of the imperialist power-elite (telling the miners they are digging for a substance to “cure cancer” while secretly using it to build the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki); and the seemingly small rationalisations and accommodations people of all cultures construct to make their personal circumstances yield the greatest benefit to themselves for the least amount of effort on their part. It is also a scathing attack on the “public apology” as yet another mask, as a manipulative device, which always seeks to conceal the
Title: Burning Vision in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Clements, Marie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - historical - political issues - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright seventeen characters twelve male; five female four movements
'Unmasks both the great lies of the imperialist power-elite (telling the miners they are digging for a substance to “cure cancer” while secretly using it to build the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki); and the seemingly small rationalisations and accommodations people of all cultures construct to make their personal circumstances yield the greatest benefit to themselves for the least amount of effort on their part. It is also a scathing attack on the “public apology” as yet another mask, as a manipulative device, which always seeks to conceal the Title: Burning Vision in - Canada and the Theatre of War: Vol. 1 / CCO Author: Clements, Marie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - historical - political issues - Native peoples - Native playwright seventeen characters twelve male; five female four movements
'Unmasks both the great lies of the imperialist power-elite (telling the miners they are digging for a substance to “cure cancer” while secretly using it to build the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki); and the seemingly small rationalisations and accommodations people of all cultures construct to make their personal circumstances yield the greatest benefit to themselves for the least amount of effort on their part. It is also a scathing attack on the “public apology” as yet another mask, as a manipulative device, which always seeks to conceal the
Title: Buz'Gem Blues, The
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2002
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - stereotypes - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters three male; three female two acts
The third play in Taylor's ongoing zany, outrageous, often farcical examination of both native and non-native stereotypes. As absurdly claustrophobic as "Gilligan's Island", Taylor is pulling some of our most revered icons - European anthropologists, their native elder informants and their militant young warrior critics - off their pedestals. This is a play about how our ritualized and institutionalized systems of maintaining and policing clichés prevents us from recognizing our common humanity in each other.
Title: Cafe Daughter
Author: Williams, Kenneth T. Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - identity - racism - Native peoples⌦twelve characters one female two acts
The story begins in 1957, as nine-year-old Yvette Wong helps out in her parents’ café in Alistair, Saskatchewan. She’s incredibly bright but has been placed in the slow learners’ class because of her skin colour. Her mother Katherine, who was forced to attend a residential school, is conflicted about her identity and has charged Yvette with a secret—to never tell anyone she’s part Cree. Yvette has dreams that her mother nourishes, but when Katherine dies and Yvette and her father move to Saskatoon, Yvette must try to pursue her dreams alone, carving a path uniquely her own. Title: Cannibal Monster, The in - Pushing Up the Sky / CHC Author: Bruchac, Joseph Publisher: Penguin Books 2000
Description:
non-roy children - folk tales - Native peoples - Tlingit large cast flexible casting (eleven or more children) one act
Description not available.
Title: Cerulean Blue A comedy in two acts Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Clemens, Andrew Publisher: Talonbooks 2015
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - Native peoples - politics - relationships - Native playwright⌦twenty characters ten male; ten female two acts
ideal for high school and college musical theatre departments; original musical score by Andrew Clemens is available for download from Talonbooks.com.
"A comedic play about a struggling blues band invited to participate in a benefit concert for a First Nation community in conflict with governmental authorities. Upon arriving, the band discovers the entire lineup of musical acts has cancelled and they’re left trapped behind
Title: Changes in - Staging the North / CCO Author: Tunooniq Theatre Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples nine characters six male; three female one act
"Changes centers around a seal hunt and the second part around the coming of the strangers, although plot is relatively unimportant." Title: Changes in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 73, Winter 1992 / PER Author: Tunooniq Theatre Publisher: Miscellaneous 1992
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples nine characters six male; three female one act
"Changes centers around a seal hunt and the second part around the coming of the strangers, although plot is relatively unimportant."
Title: Child in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples all female cast; two characters two female one act
'Two young women, Monica and Monique. Monica is a native, Monique white. Monica sits on the floor like a child, Monique stands apart from her. They are not aware of each other, but their stories take up from each other effortlessly, as if they were.'
Title: City of Shadows in - Coyote City and City of Shadows / CCO Author: Moses, Daniel David Publisher: Imago Press 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters three male; three female one act
"A play of voices, haunted by love, a theatrical seance that calls up the spirits of a half dozen urban Indians, including Lena and Johnny, to revisit the scenes of their happiness. In the process, they come home again." Title: Clam Made a Face, The
Author: Nicol, Eric Publisher: New Press 1972
Description:
roy children - Canadian - Native peoples - participation play twelve characters three male; one female (doubling) one act
1 interior set.
A participation play about the traditional culture of the Native peoples of the west coast of Canada. It is based on legends and customs, such as the potlatch.
Title: Clam Made a Face, The in - A Collection of Canadian Plays Volume 4 / CHC Author: Nicol, Eric Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1974
Description:
roy children - Canadian - Native peoples - participation play twelve characters (doubling) three male; one female one act
1 interior set.
A participation play about the traditional culture of the Native peoples of the west coast of Canada. It is based on legends and customs, such as the potlatch.
Title: Coming Around in - TYA 5: Theatre for Young Audience / CHC Author: Jensen, Lorre Wing, Paula Adele Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press
Description:
roy children - Canadian - Native peoples three characters; extras one male; one boy; one girl one act
Animal characters from Maliseet legend help Frankie, her brother Jessie, and their Uncle Sampson all deal with challenges in their lives. Title: Confessions of an Indian Cowboy in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Kane, Margo Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - Metis - drama - Native playwright all female cast; eight characters one female (doubling) one act
'Confessions of an Indian Cowboy' is a probing, endearing and sometimes amusing look at the history of contact between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people and at the communities that exist in Canada as a result of this contact. This one-woman musical show tells stories of the Indian and Métis, peoples of mixed heritage who have been pushed aside and ignored for well over a century. Through several distinct characters, Margo Kane explores how the apparent social and cultural contradictions inherent in being both “Indian” and “Cowboy” are reconciled. The
Title: Copper Thunderbird
Author: Clements, Marie Publisher: Talonbooks 2007
Description:
roy drama - biographical - Canadian - Norval Morrisseau - Native peoples - Native playwright eighteen characters three male; five female; one boy (doubling) two acts
This is a play based on the life of Norval Morriseau. Captured by the power-lines which Morriseau boldly defined in his art were the colours he experienced between his Ojibwa cosmology, his life on the street, and his spiritual and philosophical transformations to become the Father of Contemporary Native Art and a Grand Shaman. Appearing simultaneously in this multi-layered drama as a small boy, a young warrior and as an old man, Morriseau confronts his many selves over the Faustian destiny he encountered during his vision quest - a momentary
Title: Coyote City in - Coyote City and City of Shadows / CCO Author: Moses, Daniel David Publisher: Imago Press 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters two male; four female two acts
"A play haunted by myth, unravels the love story of Lena and Johnny. Lena, at home in the bush, receives a call from Johnny who asks her to come to him in 'the city' - and she agrees. The is only one problem: Johnny has been dead for six months."
Nominated for the 1991 Governor General's Literary Award for Drama. Title: Coyote City and City of Shadows Necropolitei Author: Moses, Daniel David Publisher: Imago Press 2000
Description:
roy - Canadian collection - Daniel David Moses - Native peoples - Native playwright
includes: Coyote City City of Shadows
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Crees in the Caribbean A heartwarming comedy about two Cree elders Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2016
Description:
roy comedy - Native peoples - Canadian playwright - Indigenous theatre three characters one male; two female two acts
A heartwarming comedy about two middle-aged First Nations elders on their very first trip out of the country. Evie and Cecil are celebrating their thirty-fifth wedding anniversary. As a gift, their grown children send them on a second honeymoon – to a fabulous resort on the Caribbean coast of Mexico. The only problem is that neither have ever been out of the country, let alone off their Cree reservation. Each reacts to their new experiences differently, and something ominous seems to be bothering Cecil. Despite the sun, sand, and sea sparkling right outside the resort window,
Title: Curse of the Viking Grave, The in - Playmakers / CHC Author: Mathews, Robin Publisher: Steel Rail Educational Publishing
Description:
roy children - Inuit / First Nations story - Native peoples six characters two male; three boys; one girl one act
Description not available. Title: Cyclone Jack
Author: Bolt, Carol Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972
Description:
roy children - Canadian - musical - high school - Native peoples nine characters eight boys; one girl one act
A lively musical about Tom Longboat, the Native marathon runner who represented Canada in the 1908 Olympics.
Title: Cyclone Jack
Author: Bolt, Carol Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1972
Description:
roy children - Canadian - musical - high school - Native peoples nine characters eight male; one female one act
A lively musical about Tom Longboat, the Native marathon runner who represented Canada in the 1908 Olympics.
Title: Cyclone Jack in - A Collection of Canadian Plays Volume 4 / CHC Author: Bolt, Carol Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1974
Description:
roy children - Canadian - musical - high school - Native peoples nine characters eight male; one female one act
A lively musical about Tom Longboat, the Native marathon runner who represented Canada in the 1908 Olympics. Title: Da-Hoos-Whee'-Whee (The Seal-Hunting Brothers) in - Multicultural Plays for Children v. 2 / CHC Author: Gerke, Pamela Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996
Description:
non-roy children - folk tales - Lushootseed Salish - Native peoples large cast flexible casting (eleven to thirty-five children) one act
This story tells of the epic journey of two intrepid brothers who are bewitched by the evil grandfather of their sister's husband. The brothers go on a 'spirit journey' into the unknown and come back home empowered by their experience, singing their 'spirit songs'.
Title: Dancing Turtle in - Off-Off Broadway Festival Plays - 38th series / COL Author: Atkinson, Thomas M. Publisher: Samuel French 2014
Description:
roy drama - disability - Native Peoples - coming of age eight characters one male; three female (doubling) one act
"Dancing Turtle" invites the audience into the inner life of a girl – damaged at birth – that is both painful and glorious, as she navigates the first longings of adulthood during a Native American stomp dance at a local Appalachian Festival.
Title: Darrell Dennis: Two Plays
Author: Dennis, Darrell Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy - Canadian collection - Darrell Dennis - Native peoples
includes: Tales of an Urban Indian The Trickster of Third Avenue East
See separate entries for further description of each play. Title: Dead White Writer on the Floor
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2011
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - identity - Native peoples - Native playwright twelve characters five male; one female (doubling) two acts
This play uses two literary conventions - theatre of the absurd and mystery novels - to create one of the funniest and most thought-provoking plays ever about identity politics. In Act One, Billy Jack, Injun Joe, Kills Many Enemies, Old Lodge Skins, Pocahontas, and Tonto find themselves in a locked room with the body of a white writer, which they stash in a closet. None of them can figure out how he died or which of them might have killed him. They realize as they point fingers at each other, however, that they are all profoundly unhappy with their lives as they've been constructed
Title: Diary of a Crazy Boy As published in Theatrum Magazine (June/July/Aug 1990) Author: McLeod, John Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1990
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - folklore - Native playwright nine characters seven male; one female (doubling) two acts
Description not available.
Title: Dreamkeeper in - Eureka ! / CCO Author: Sinclair, Bruce Publisher: Coteau Books 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples two characters one male; one female one act
'Series of dream sequences regarding past and future of Canadian Indians.' Title: Dreary and Izzy
Author: Beagan, Tara Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2006
Description:
roy drama - Alberta playwright - Native peoples four characters one male; three female two acts
1975, Lethbridge, Alberta. When the Monoghan sisters lose their parents in a car accident, Deirdre remains as the sole caregiver to her older sister, Isabelle. Adopted as an infant from the neighbouring Blood Indian Reserve, Isabelle is loving, joyous, and severely affected by fetal alcohol syndrome in a time before the disorder had a name. Just as Deirdre is poised to enter university and begin exploring her own future, she must choose how much of her life she will sacrifice for the love of Isabelle. Deirdre is barely staying afloat under the strain of this reality
Title: Dress For Sadie Redwing, A
Author: Gilsenan, Nancy Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1980
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples five characters two male; three female one act
The time is the summer of 1937 and the place is Ray Ticen's ranch in South Dakota. The ranch seems a peaceful, thriving haven to Ellen, the young niece, who is visiting. Home-baked bread, a barn dance and the promise of a new dress are the elements of a wonderful vacation. But why must Ellen be careful never to drink from the dipper in the well to the north? Why does her uncle object to the Blackfoot Indians who cross his land to reach the reservation? Why does pathetic, leather-faced Sadie Redwing need a dress for her dying daughter? This is a beautiful and powerful
Title: Dress For Sadie Redwing, A
Author: Gilsenan, Nancy Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1980
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples - relationships five characters two male; three female one act
divided interior set.
The time is the summer of 1937 and the place is Ray Ticen's ranch in South Dakota. The ranch seems a peaceful, thriving haven to Ellen, the young niece, who is visiting. Home-baked bread, a barn dance and the promise of a new dress are the elements of a wonderful vacation. But why must Ellen be careful never to drink from the dipper in the well to the north? Why does her uncle Title: Drum Song in - Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984 / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Irwin Publishing 1984
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples - tragedy - Alberta playwright twenty-nine characters seven male; twenty-two female (doubling possible) three parts
Trilogy contains: Lament for Harmonica (Maya) The Stranger The Furies
Title: Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
Author: Highway, Tomson Publisher: Fifth House 1989
Description:
roy comedy - drama - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright eight characters seven male; one female two acts
Once again, we're on the "Rez". This time the men band together to protest the formation of an all-girl hockey team, which confounds their already tenuous sense of identity.
Title: Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing in - Modern Canadian Plays, Volume II (3rd ed) / CCO Author: Highway, Tomson Publisher: Talonbooks 1994
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright eight characters seven male; one female two acts
Once again, we're on the "Rez". This time the men band together to protest the formation of an all-girl hockey team, which confounds their already tenuous sense of identity. Title: Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
Author: Highway, Tomson Publisher: Fifth House 1989
Description:
roy comedy - drama - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright eight characters seven male; one female two acts
Once again, we're on the "Rez". This time the men band together to protest the formation of an all-girl hockey team, which confounds their already tenuous sense of identity.
Title: Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fourth Edition - CCO Author: Highway, Tomson Publisher: Fifth House 1989
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright eight characters seven male; one female two acts
Once again, we're on the "Rez". This time the men band together to protest the formation of an all-girl hockey team, which confounds their already tenuous sense of identity.
Title: Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (5th ed.) / CCO Author: Highway, Tomson Publisher: Talonbooks 2012
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright eight characters seven male; one female two acts
Once again, we're on the "Rez". This time the men band together to protest the formation of an all-girl hockey team, which confounds their already tenuous sense of identity. Title: Ebb-Tide in - Plays of the Pacific Coast / CCO Author: Fairbairn, A. M. D. Publisher: Samuel French 1935
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples three characters two male; one female one act
"In an isolated Native village lives a young Canadian school teacher, Ann. There are no other white women in the village and but three white men. After three years in the village she yearns to return to her own kind but fears to. Billy, a young half-breed, seeks to marry Ann and she is tempted to accept him when the thought of becoming a squaw and forever abandoning all hope of returning to civilization impels her to turn to Dick (a derelict), one of the three white men, who, stirred by Ann's impassioned appeal to the spark of decency left in him, agrees to marry her and,
Title: Ecstasy of Rita Joe, The in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (3rd ed. ) / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 1993
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples eighteen characters; extras fifteen male; three female two acts
open stage.
A lyrical documentary of a young Native girl who comes to the city only to die on Skid Row, a victim of white man's violent and paternalistic attitudes towards Native people.
Title: Ecstasy of Rita Joe, The in - The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and Other Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: General Publishing 1971
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples eighteen characters; extras fifteen male; three female two acts
open stage.
A lyrical documentary of a young Native girl who comes to the city only to die on Skid Row, a victim of white man's violent and paternalistic attitudes towards Native people. Title: Ecstasy of Rita Joe, The
Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 1970
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples eighteen characters; extras fifteen male; three female two acts
open stage.
A lyrical documentary of a young Native girl who comes to the city only to die on Skid Row, a victim of white man's violent and paternalistic attitudes towards Native people.
Title: Ecstasy of Rita Joe, The
Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 1970
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples eighteen characters; extras fifteen male; three female two acts
open stage.
A lyrical documentary of a young Native girl who comes to the city only to die on Skid Row, a victim of white man's violent and paternalistic attitudes towards Native people.
Title: Ecstasy of Rita Joe, The in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples eighteen characters; extras fifteen male; three female two acts
open stage.
A lyrical documentary of a young Native girl who comes to the city only to die on Skid Row, a victim of white man's violent and paternalistic attitudes towards Native people. Title: Ecstasy of Rita Joe, The in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (rev. ed.) / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 1986
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples eighteen characters; extras fifteen male; three female two acts
open stage.
A lyrical documentary of a young Native girl who comes to the city only to die on Skid Row, a victim of white man's violent and paternalistic attitudes towards Native people.
Title: Ecstasy of Rita Joe, The in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (5th ed.) / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 2012
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples eighteen characters; extras fifteen male; three female two acts
open stage.
A lyrical documentary of a young Native girl who comes to the city only to die on Skid Row, a victim of white man's violent and paternalistic attitudes towards Native people.
Title: Education is our Right in - Toronto at Dreamer's Rock & Education is Our Right / YCL Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Fifth House
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright twenty-one characters three male; one female (doubling) one act
' (The play) borrows from the familiar story of Charles Dicken's "A Christmas Carol", but in this version the Spirits of Education Past, Present and Future attempt to show the Minister of Indian Affairs the errors of his ways.' Title: Edward Curtis Project, The A modern picture story Author: Clements, Marie Leistner, Rita Publisher: Talonbooks 2010
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples - Canada - USA - Native playwright ten characters two male; two female (doubling) one act
Edward Curtis saw his job as that of creating a photographic record of "the vanishing race of the North American Indian". His work therefore became as much a projection of colonial attitudes upon aboriginal peoples as it was an authentic record of their lives. This project began when Presentation House Theatre commissioned Marie Clements to write a play that would stage the issues raised by Curtis' monumental but controversial achievement - to dramatize not only the creation of his twenty-volume photographic and ethnographic epic and the enormous
Title: Edward Curtis Project, The in - Modern Canadian Plays Volume II - Fifth Edition / CCO Author: Clements, Marie Leistner, Rita Publisher: Talonbooks 2013
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples - Canada - USA - Native playwright ten characters two male; two female (doubling) one act
Edward Curtis saw his job as that of creating a photographic record of "the vanishing race of the North American Indian". His work therefore became as much a projection of colonial attitudes upon aboriginal peoples as it was an authentic record of their lives. This project began when Presentation House Theatre commissioned Marie Clements to write a play that would stage the issues raised by Curtis' monumental but controversial achievement - to dramatize not only the creation of his twenty-volume photographic and ethnographic epic and the enormous
Title: Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout A "String Quartet" for four female actors Author: Highway, Tomson Publisher: Talonbooks 2005
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - historical - Native peoples - Native playwright all female cast; four characters four female two acts
"Based on a deposition signed by 14 Chiefs of the Thompson River basin on the occasion of a visit to their lands by Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1910, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout is a ritualized retelling of how the Native Peoples of British Columbia lost their fishing, hunting and grazing rights, their lands, and finally their language without their agreement or consent, and without any treaties ever having been signed." Title: Esker Mike and His Wife, Agiluk Scenes from life in the Mackenzie River Delta Author: Hardin, Herschel Publisher: Talonbooks 1973
Description:
roy satire - Canadian - social issues - Native peoples - Alberta playwright fifteen characters nine male; six female twelve scenes
A social satire about Inuit life in the Mackenzie River Delta and how it is affected by white settlers, priests, and government officials.
Title: Esker Mike and His Wife, Agiluk in - Staging the North / CCO Author: Hardin, Herschel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy satire - Canadian - social issues - Native peoples - Alberta playwright fifteen characters nine male; six female twelve scenes
A social satire about Inuit life in the Mackenzie River Delta and how it is affected by white settlers, priests, and government officials.
Title: Esker Mike and His Wife, Agiluk
Author: Hardin, Herschel Publisher: Talonbooks 1973
Description:
roy satire - Canadian - social issues - Native peoples - Alberta playwright fifteen characters nine male; six female twelve scenes
A social satire about Inuit life in the Mackenzie River Delta and how it is affected by white settlers, priests, and government officials. Title: Ever! That Nanabush! in - Stories from the Bush / CCO Author: Odjig-Beavon, Daphne De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - folk tales large cast; chorus flexible casting (doubling) one act
originally performed with six actors
An adaptation of traditional stories as retold by Daphne Odjig-Beavon. The 9 stories teach lessons about how best to survive and thrive. Beware, they say: much trickery occurs; and, know your limitations. Animals and plants are given their traits as protection (roses) or as reminders of betrayal (rabbits, raccoons). Mutual sustenance despite weather, lack of food or aging results
Title: fareWel
Author: Ross, Ian Publisher: Scirocco Drama 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - comedy - drama - Native peoples six characters four male; two female two acts
"Life is tense on the Partridge Crop Reserve. The Chief is in Las Vegas (again), the band is in receivership, and there's a move on to unilaterally declare self-government. And now that the welfare cheques have gone missing, the people of this fictional First Nation are forced to take control of their lives."
Winner of the Governor General’s Award.
Title: FareWel in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Ross, Ian Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - drama - Native peoples six characters four male; two female scene seven of a two act play
"Life is tense on the Partridge Crop Reserve. The Chief is in Las Vegas (again), the band is in receivership, and there's a move on to unilaterally declare self-government. And now that the welfare cheques have gone missing, the people of this fictional First Nation are forced to take control of their lives."
Winner of the Governor General’s Award. Title: Five Episodes from the Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 105, Winter 2001 / PER Author: King, Thomas Publisher: Miscellaneous 2001
Description:
roy comedy - Native peoples - Native playwright three characters two male; one female radio play
Five sketches from CBC's radio program "The Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour".'
Title: Ghost Dance in - Keepers of the Morning Star / COL Author: Arkeketa, Annette Publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2003
Description:
roy drama - native playwright - Native peoples - historical - repatriation twenty characters eleven male; five female; one boy, two girls; one male or female two acts
'Ghost Dance is about the repatriation of Native American human remains and cultural patrimony items. It is a story with ancient roots and a contemporary beat that weaves a tragic drama into an ending with hope for the future. This play was created to show all communities how disturbing the robbing of our ancestors' graves is and how it affects Indian people'.
Title: Gift of the Drum, The in - The Master Cat and Other Plays / CHC Author: Goulding, Dorothy Jane Publisher: Coach House Press 1955
Description:
roy children - Native peoples - legend six characters; extras five boys; one girl one act
Adapted from an old Zuni legend. Title: Gift, The in - Stories from the Bush / CCO Author: De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples three characters two male; one female one act
A storyteller/actor relates the Frog Monster legend in which Manitoulin Island is created and the medicine pouch of a Nameless Man in the legend spilled over the island. On Manitoulin, where De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre is located, many medicines still grow. The storyteller takes what he needs from the legend and in performing it invites the audience to do the same. What or who is the Frog Monster who prevents water from flowing? What is your name?
Title: Girl Who Loved Her Horses in - The Boy in the Treehouse; Girl Who Loved Her Horses / CCO Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - Native playwright five characters three male; two female one act
"Some consider this an adult memory play, but at its core, it's a story of a little girl whose imagination is her only friend and the power that such a friend can give. In some unfortunate cases, it's the only thing that keeps us alive. I think we all have a little Danielle in us."
Title: Girl Who Loved Her Horses in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 / CCO Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright five characters three male; two female one act
"Some consider this an adult memory play, but at its core, it's a story of a little girl whose imagination is her only friend and the power that such a friend can give. In some unfortunate cases, it's the only thing that keeps us alive. I think we all have a little Danielle in us." Title: Girl Who Loved Her Horses in - Prepare to Embark / YCL Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - Native playwright five characters three male; two female ten scenes (one act)
"Some consider this an adult memory play, but at its core, it's a story of a little girl whose imagination is her only friend and the power that such a friend can give. In some unfortunate cases, it's the only thing that keeps us alive. I think we all have a little in us."
Title: Gluskabe and Old Man Winter in - Pushing Up the Sky / CHC Author: Bruchac, Joseph Publisher: Penguin Books 2000
Description:
non-roy Native peoples - Abenaki - children large cast flexible casting (fourteen or more children) one act
Description not available.
Title: God and the Indian
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2014
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - abuse - Native playwright two characters one male; one female two acts
setting: the assistant bishop's office, located in an old mansion that has been converted to offices; time: early 2000s.
While panhandling outside a coffee shop, Johnny, a Cree woman who lives on the streets, is shocked to recognize a face from her childhood, which was spent in a residential school. Desperate to hear the man acknowledge the terrible abuse he inflicted on her and other children Title: Gordon Winter
Author: Williams, Kenneth T. Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2012
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples - political - Canadian - racism large cast flexible casting (doubling) two acts
Gordon Winter is an RCMP hero, a life-long champion of First Nations rights, and a bigot. He's challenging the next generation of chiefs to stand up to the federal government when he spews a Nazi-inspired racist and homophobic rant. Suddenly, the one of the most revered First Nations leaders is now one of the most reviled human beings in Canada. While most want to consign Winter to the dustbin of history, some are quick to defend a man who did so much good in his life. Questions get asked: how should society respond to such outrageous comments from a
Title: Governor of the Dew: A Memorial to Nostalgia and Desire in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Favel, Floyd Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - drama - Native playwright all female cast; six characters one female (doubling) two acts
Less than twenty pages long, this one-woman show is a fable about the pernicious effect of cultural contact. Based on a Cree legend, the play enacts a tale about a Beaver who falls in love with a beautiful woman. Despite the opposition to their union by their nations, the couple marries and the woman goes to live with Beaver. When she becomes ill with a sickness for which the Beavers “have no cure,” she returns to her people. However, it is too late. The Beavers have become infected with whatever virus the woman carried and, by the end, only the protagonist
Title: Great Hunger, The
Author: Peterson, Leonard Publisher: Book Society of Canada 1967
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Inuit - Native peoples twelve characters; extras seven male; five female three acts
interior and exterior sets; use of some Inuit vocabulary.
A tragedy in traditional form, with a traditional theme. Retribution is demanded for a past murder, and inevitably the unknowing and innocent are caught up in the unfinished pattern, and the entire community is afraid. Title: Great Hunger, The
Author: Peterson, Leonard Publisher: Book Society of Canada 1967
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Inuit - Native peoples twelve characters; extras seven male; five female three acts
interior and exterior sets; use of some Inuit vocabulary.
A tragedy in traditional form, with a traditional theme. Retribution is demanded for a past murder, and inevitably the unknowing and innocent are caught up in the unfinished pattern, and the entire community is afraid.
Title: Great Wave Of Civilization, The
Author: Hardin, Herschel Publisher: Talonbooks 1976
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - Alberta playwright seventeen characters thirteen male; four female ten scenes
The Great Wave of Civilization is Herschel Hardin's play about the destruction of the people of the Blackfoot Confederacy by the liquor trade in Montana and Alberta in the 19th Century. Little Dog of the Northern Blackfoot tribe vs. Snookum Jim, free trader, I.G. Baker, merchant-prince of Fort Benton and the rest of the "great wave of civilization".
Title: Great Wave Of Civilization, The
Author: Hardin, Herschel Publisher: Talonbooks 1976
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - Alberta playwright seventeen characters thirteen male; four female ten scenes
The Great Wave of Civilization is Herschel Hardin's play about the destruction of the people of the Blackfoot Confederacy by the liquor trade in Montana and Alberta in the 19th Century. Little Dog of the Northern Blackfoot tribe vs. Snookum Jim, free trader, I.G. Baker, merchant-prince of Fort Benton and the rest of the "great wave of civilization". Title: Green Grow The Lilacs
Author: Riggs, Lynn Publisher: Samuel French 1930
Description:
roy drama - American - Native peoples fourteen characters ten male; four female six scenes
representative set; period - Oklahoma, 1900.
A spoiled farm girl in love with a cowboy uses feminine wiles to make the cowboy jealous. The hired hand falls for the girl and his dark, insane jealousy forces a fight between the two men which results in the death of the hired hand.
Title: Green Grow The Lilacs
Author: Riggs, Lynn Publisher: Samuel French 1930
Description:
roy drama - American - Native peoples fourteen characters ten male; four female six scenes
representative set; period - Oklahoma, 1900.
A spoiled farm girl in love with a cowboy uses feminine wiles to make the cowboy jealous. The hired hand falls for the girl and his dark, insane jealousy forces a fight between the two men which results in the death of the hired hand.
Title: Heart of a Distant Tribe in - A Map of the Senses / CCO Author: Ross, Ian Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2000
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters two male; four female one act
Native group of people make their way in modern day Winnipeg. Title: Hot 'n' Soft in - Two-Spirit Acts / CCO Author: Miguel, Muriel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - solo performance - Native peoples - LGBTQ+ - Native playwright all female cast; one character one female one act
"Hot 'n' Soft" is a lesbian erotica/trickster story created by Muriel Miguel (Kuna-Rappahannock). After encountering only male trickster stories, Miguel decided to build a piece around a female lesbian coyote trickster (the Coyote often plays the role of trickster and is usually male). Adding erotica to the mix, Miguel bases her tale on taboos not normally spoken of in the Native lesbian community, hair, two-timing, being uncomfortable, and getting older.
Title: Hours that Remain, The
Author: Barker, Keith Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples six characters one male; five female one act
A moving, emotionally charged story of loss, bereavement, and unfaltering hope. Denise has spent the last five years dedicated to uncovering the truth behind her sister Michelle’s disappearance. Haunted by loose ends, she begins seeing visions of Michelle, who gradually guides her in the right direction. As Denise’s marriage and sanity crumble around her, she remains committed to unearthing an unfathomable truth, and coming to terms with a painfully crucial realization—one she has been desperately avoiding.
Title: Huff in - Huff & Stitch / COL Author: Cardinal, Cliff Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples - Native playwright - family relations - solo performance many characters one male (doubling) one act (one scene)
"Brothers Wind, Huff, and Charles are trying to cope with their father’s abusive whims and their mother’s recent suicide. In a brutal reality of death and addiction, they huff gas and pull destructive pranks. Preyed upon by Trickster and his own fragile psyche, Wind looks for a way out, one that might lead him into his mother’s shadow." Title: Ik, The
Author: Higgins, Colin Cannan, Denis Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 1984
Description:
roy drama - cultural anthropology - native peoples nineteen characters flexible casting one act
Dramatization of Colin Turnbull's book, The Mountain People, about the Ik of Uganda.
Title: In a World Created by a Drunken God
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 2006
Description:
roy Canadian - dramatic comedy - family relations - Native peoples all male cast; two characters two male two acts
Jason, a 31-year-old Canadian half-Native man is paid an unexpected visit by a 34-year old American man, Harry, who introduces himself as Jason's half brother. Harry wants Jason to be compatibility tested for a possible kidney donation to their dying non-native father, a man who abandoned Jason's mother when he was two months old. Embroiled in the absurdity of their dilemma, Harry is forced to acknowledge that the father he has loved all his life has concealed his capacity for an absent, heartless cruelty. Jason, on the other hand, must wrestle with the
Title: In Care
Author: Williams, Kenneth T. Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2017
Description:
roy drama - native peoples - Native playwright - Canadian four characters one male; three female one act
The latest script by Cree playwright Kenneth T. Williams, In Care is a four-character play about a mother’s struggle to get her children out of foster care. Janice Fisher has not had an easy life. She worked the streets as a teenager, had her first daughter taken when she was just 15, and was addicted to cocaine. That was 12 years ago and she’s turned her life around and is the mother of three happy girls, until a false accusation gets them apprehended by foster care. Now, Janice is trapped in a system like a butterfly in a spider’s web: the more she struggles to get out, the more Title: In Search of a Friend in - Staging the North / CCO Author: Tunooniq Theatre Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples seven characters flexible casting one act
"A play about addiction, represented not as an individual disease but as an evil enchantment, something like the famine of the old days: to get the better of it, in the individual needs powerful help from a stronger enchantment, the support of the community, and his or her own fortitude."
Title: In Spirit
Author: Beagan, Tara Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples - social issues - murder - native playwright - Alberta playwright all female cast; one character one female one act
Twelve-year-old Molly was riding her new bicycle on a deserted road when a man in a truck pulled up next to her, saying he was lost. He asked if she could get in and help him back to the highway, and said he could bring her back to her bike after. Molly declined, out of interest for her own safety. The next things Molly remembers are dirt, branches, trees, pain, and darkness. Molly is now a spirit. Mustering up some courage, she pieces together her short life for herself and her
Title: In the Blood
Author: Watts, Reg Publisher: Watts, R.J., & Associates 1974
Description:
roy Canadian - historical drama - settlers - Native peoples thirteen characters; extras nine male; four female two acts
'In the Blood' was commissioned by the North Vancouver Arts Council for the British Columbia Centennial in 1971. The play captures the cultural heritage of Canada's Native peoples and the strength and spirit of the early pioneers. Set in a west coast fishing village in the 1870s, the play portrays the daily life of the Johannsen family, Larus, Beth and Tim. A teacher arrives to open the first school but Tim and his Indian friends, Michael and Sonia, would rather fish than go to school. The story reaches a climax when Larus and Tim are shipwrecked on Totem Island and a Title: Incredible Adventures of Mary Jane Mosquito, The
Author: Highway, Tomson illustrated by Sue Todd Publisher: Fifth House 2016
Description:
roy musical - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright one character one female one act
illustrated by Sue Todd.
"This is the story of Mary Jane Mosquito, the only female mosquito, in the history of the world, to be born without wings."
Title: Indeo: The Wood Mountain Stampede: Intertribal in - Studio One / CCO Author: Suknaski, Andrew Publisher: Coteau Books 1990
Description:
roy Native peoples - poetry - monologue - Canadian one character flexible casting radio play
Description not available.
Title: Independence of Eddie Rose, The in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 / CCO Author: Yellow Robe, William S. Jr. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy family relations - Canadian - Native peoples - drama seven characters four male; three female two acts
Description not available. Title: Indian in - Modern Canadian Drama / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Penguin Books 1984
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples all male cast; two characters two male one act
"A searing accusation of racist attitudes and practice against native Indians."
Title: Indian in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples all male cast; two characters two male one act
"A searing accusation of racist attitudes and practice against native Indians."
Title: Indian in - The Ecstasy of Rita Joe and Other Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: General Publishing 1971
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - men all male cast; two characters two male one act
"A searing accusation of racist attitudes and practice against native Indians." Title: Indian in - Cues and Entrances / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Gage Educational Publishing 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples all male cast; three characters three male one act
"A searing accusation of racist attitudes and practice against native Indians."
Title: Indian in - George Ryga: The Other Plays / CCO Author: Ryga, George Publisher: Talonbooks 2004
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples all male cast; two characters two male one act
"A searing accusation of racist attitudes and practice against native Indians."
Title: Indian Affairs, The in - Stories from the Bush / CCO Author: De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples nine characters five male; four female three acts
Two wolves observe humans throughout the play. Six characters meet at ages 8, 18, and 28, and in these three meetings at what was once their clubhouse on the reserve they feel a tension between their lives in the contemporary world, in the city or on the reserve, and the seven traditional values implied in the teaching: love, honour, respect, truth, trust, compassion, patience. They remain loyal to their childhood pledge to be friends forever. Title: Indian Arm
Author: Kanagawa, Hiro Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples - disabilities six characters two male; three female (doubling) two acts
"In this modern adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Little Eyolf, award-winning author Hiro Kanagawa explores the uneasy intersection of privilege and birthright. Rita and Alfred Allmers live in an isolated family cabin on native leasehold land overlooking Indian Arm, a still untamed glacial fjord just north of Vancouver, BC. With Alfred—a formerly promising novelist—now struggling with his latest work, Rita has been tasked with caring for their adopted son Wolfie, a sensitive First Nations teen who has been designated as “special needs for much of his life. Rita’s resentments
Title: Indian Medicine Shows, The in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Moses, Daniel David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - historical drama - Native playwright three characters two male; one female two one-act plays performed together
2 one-act plays performed as a full production.
The Indian Medicine Shows, composed of the plays 'The Moon and Dead Indians' and 'Angel of the Medicine Show', traces the journey one young settler makes to and across the spiritual divide of American frontier. In the first play, a mysterious stranger (modeled after Billy the Kid) arrives at a farmhouse in the foothills, bringing music and unwelcome memories to a lonely widow and her
Title: Indians
Author: Kopit, Arthur Publisher: Eyre Methuen 1970
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples twenty-four characters; extras twenty-one male; three female thirteen scenes
1 set.
Using techniques of vaudeville and the circus, this play explores the white man's conquering and extermination of the Native American Indian. Title: Indians
Author: Kopit, Arthur Publisher: Hill and Wang 1969
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples twenty-four characters; extras twenty-one male; three female thirteen scenes
1 set.
Using techniques of vaudeville and the circus, this play explores the white man's conquering and extermination of the Native American Indian.
Title: Indians
Author: Kopit, Arthur Publisher: Bantam Books 1969
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples twenty-four characters; extras twenty-one male; three female thirteen scenes
1 set.
Using techniques of vaudeville and the circus, this play explores the white man's conquering and extermination of the Native American Indian.
Title: Inspiration Point
Author: Barlow, John Garfield Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples all male cast; four characters four male one act (optional intermission)
Paul, Joseph, and Peter are stranded at Inspiration Point. With no one to call and nothing to do other than get high, the boys argue about life on a reservation and the growing struggle of a community threatened by internal and external assimilationist forces. Poised between hope and despair, each man faces how best to move beyond the past and adapt to a future in which cultural legacy seems destined to diminish. Symbolic and politically charged, Inspiration Point speaks about life on a small Maritime reservation and the constant struggle for cultural survival. Title: Inspiration Point
Author: Barlow, John Garfield Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples all male cast; four characters four male one act (optional intermission)
Paul, Joseph, and Peter are stranded at Inspiration Point. With no one to call and nothing to do other than get high, the boys argue about life on a reservation and the growing struggle of a community threatened by internal and external assimilationist forces. Poised between hope and despair, each man faces how best to move beyond the past and adapt to a future in which cultural legacy seems destined to diminish. Symbolic and politically charged, Inspiration Point speaks about life on a small Maritime reservation and the constant struggle for cultural survival.
Title: Jessica in - Sheer Nerve / CCO Author: Griffiths, Linda Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1999
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - biography - identity - Native peoples six characters three female; three male two acts
2 interiors.
Charts a Metis woman's search for personal identity.
Title: Jim Thorpe, All-American in - Plays Children Love Vol. 2 / CHC Author: Levitt, Saul Publisher: Anchorage Press 1988
Description:
roy children - Native peoples - sports all male cast; seven characters seven male one act
unit set; Native and early 20th century American dress.
Here is an exciting dramatization of the memorable life of Jim Thorpe, Sac and Fox Indian, football, baseball, track star, winner of 2 gold medals in the 1912 Olympics... His life was a drama - a sudden rise to world-wide fame, a tragic fall when through an innocent incident his medals were forfeited and his honors stripped away. Staged with vivid scenes of athletic triumph Title: Job's Wife; or, The delivery of Grace in - Blade / Job's Wife / Video - CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: ArtBiz Communications 1995
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - religious - Native peoples - Native playwright three characters one male; two female one act
" 'Job's Wife' presents an intelligent alternative to traditional ideas about religion in effective dramatic terms."
Title: Job's Wife; or, The delivery of Grace in - Blade and Job's Wife; or, The Delivery of Grace / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Theatrum Publishing 1993
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - religious - Native peoples - Native playwright three characters one male; two female one act
Published in Theatrum Magazine (Nov/Dec/Jan 1992/93). " 'Job's Wife' presents an intelligent alternative to traditional ideas about religion in effective dramatic terms."
Title: Job's Wife; or, The delivery of Grace in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 / CCO Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1995
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - drama - religious - Native playwright three characters one male; two female one act
" 'Job's Wife' presents an intelligent alternative to traditional ideas about religion in effective dramatic terms." Title: Johnny Moonbeam and the Silver Arrow
Author: Golden, Joseph Publisher: Anchorage Press 1962
Description:
roy children - adventure - Native peoples all male cast; six characters; extras five male; one boy one act
told in narration and mime.
To earn the coveted silver arrow, Johnny Moonbeam is required to take rain from the Rain God, fire from the Fire God, and maize from the Earth God. The quest is fraught with dangers, and manly courage is demanded of the 12-year-old-boy. When at last he has overcome all obstacles, and holds the three powers of the world in his hands, he is subjected to a further test, to
Title: Johnny Moonbeam and the Silver Arrow in - Plays Children Love / CHC Author: Golden, Joseph Publisher: Anchorage Press 1962
Description:
roy children - adventure - Native peoples all male cast; six characters; extras five male; one boy one act
told in narration and mime.
To earn the coveted silver arrow, Johnny Moonbeam is required to take rain from the Rain God, fire from the Fire God, and maize from the Earth God. The quest is fraught with dangers, and manly courage is demanded of the 12-year-old-boy. When at last he has overcome all obstacles, and holds the three powers of the world in his hands, he is subjected to a further test, to
Title: Johnny Moonbeam and the Silver Arrow in - Twenty Plays for Young People / CHC Author: Golden, Joseph Publisher: Anchorage Press 1962
Description:
roy children - adventure - Native peoples all male cast; six characters; extras five male; one boy one act
told in narration and mime.
To earn the coveted silver arrow, Johnny Moonbeam is required to take rain from the Rain God, fire from the Fire God, and maize from the Earth God. The quest is fraught with dangers, and manly courage is demanded of the 12-year-old-boy. When at last he has overcome all obstacles, and holds the three powers of the world in his hands, he is subjected to a further test, to Title: Journey to Mapu in - Fronteras Vivientes / CCO Author: de Guevara, Lina Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy drama - Latina/o playwrights - Canadian - native peoples - identity large cast flexible casting one act
A series of recollections by Lautaro/Tato, a Chilean Mapuche immigrant, of the struggles of his childhood as the root source of his current day activism in connecting issues concerning both the First Nations and South American Indigenous groups. These memories challenge questions of identity, nationalism, historiography, a sense of place, and indigeneity.
Title: Justice of the Piece in - Two-Spirit Acts / CCO Author: Monkman, Kent Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - solo performance - LGBTQ+ - Native peoples - drag queen all male cast; one character one male one act
Kent Monkman returns as his cheeky alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. Miss Chief dons the judicial robes to hold court over a new inclusive nation in this deconstruction of blood quantum, ethnicity and sovereignty. ImagineNATIVE
Title: Ka'ma'mo'pi cik / The Gathering in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 90, Spring 1997 / PER Author: Van Fossen, Rachel Wildcat, Darryl Publisher: Miscellaneous
Description:
roy musical - Canadian - Native peoples large cast flexible casting three acts
Description not available. Title: Ka'ma'mo'pi cik / The Gathering: The Calling Lakes Community Play in - The West of All Possible Worlds / CCO Author: Van Fossen, Rachel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2004
Description:
roy musical - Native peoples - Canadian large cast flexible casting three acts
Description not available.
Title: Kyotopolis in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Moses, Daniel David Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy Canadian - dark comedy - monologue - Native peoples all female cast; one character one female one scene
'Who was that woman we saw riding the space shuttle last night, riding it into orbit - and the obituaries? An Indian Princess? A New Age Shamaness? Or just little Babe Fisher? Even her family isn't sure anymore. A darkly comic fantasia about the ways we communicate and the future of Native identity in the Global Village. Ricky Raccoon is just one of the characters she encounters."
Title: Lady of Silences in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 / CCO Author: Favel, Floyd Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1998
Description:
roy murder - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright five characters two male; three female two acts
Tells the story of a man whose white lover is killed by his three Native lovers. Title: Lament for Harmonica (Maya) in - Ten Canadian Short Plays / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Dell Publishing Company 1975
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - tragedy - Alberta playwright - Native peoples seven characters two male; five female one act
'Half-Indian girl's hopes to leave reservation are destroyed by arrival of former white lover.'
Title: Lament for Harmonica (Maya) in - The Collected Plays of Gwen Pharis Ringwood / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright - Native peoples seven characters two male; five female one act
'Half-Indian girl's hopes to leave reservation are destroyed by arrival of former white lover.'
Title: Lament for Harmonica (Maya) in - Major Plays of the Canadian Theatre 1934-1984 / CCO Author: Pharis Ringwood, Gwen Publisher: Borealis Press 1982
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Alberta playwright - Native peoples seven characters two male; five female one act
'Half-Indian girl's hopes to leave reservation are destroyed by arrival of former white lover.' Title: Legend of the Seasons in - Multicultural Plays for Children v. 2 / CHC Author: Gerke, Pamela Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996
Description:
non-roy children - Lushootseed Salish - folk tales - self actualization - Native peoples large cast flexible casting (twelve to thirty children) one act
This story is about a spirit journey that the "Young Man" takes to find enlightenment and completion of his self (symbolized by his searching for and marrying the Island Woman).
Title: Listen to the Drum in - A Blizzard Leaves No Footprints and Other Plays / CHC Author: Watts, Irene N. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1978
Description:
roy children - Canadian - Native peoples - folklore - participation play - Alberta playwright eleven characters one male; one female; nine male or female one act
intended audience ages 4 to 9.
An Inuit legend of how the Raven made the world.
Title: Love's Kitchen in - Staging Alternative Albertas / CCO Author: Sewell, Anna Marie Sewell, Cathy Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
Description:
roy musical - family relations - Native peoples - Alberta playwright all female cast; two characters two female one act
'Set entirely in the kitchen of Sarah Roy, "Love's Kitchen" is, as its name suggests, a love-in for the departed Auntie Isobel (A.K.A. Auntie Love), a beloved matriarchal force in the lives of Roy and her sister Imogene. The fact that Auntie Love's body has been laid out in one of the most fundamental rooms of the house in a homemade coffin on wheels makes her stage presence enormously powerful and, at times, humorously grotesque.' Title: Lupi, The Great White Wolf in - Stories from the Bush / CCO Author: Lewis, Larry E. Jacko, Esther Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - legend - Native peoples thirteen characters eight male; five female two acts
based on Ojibway legend as told by Annie Migwanabi; translated by Justine Enosse and Violet Naokwegijig; this edition is in both Ojibwe and English language.
As the Chief ages, he grows in wisdom and with good advice from his sister chooses to give his daughter in marriage not to the suitor with the biggest dowry but to the one with the truest heart. A vengeful grandmother, whose family had been killed by the Chief in war, intervenes, demanding
Title: Magic Bow, The
Author: Starr, Marie Jorgensen, Larry D. Publisher: Green Room Press 1972
Description:
roy children - Native peoples seventeen characters eight male; six female; three musicians one act
no description available
Title: Magic Bow, The
Author: Starr, Marie Jorgensen, Larry D. Publisher: Green Room Press 1972
Description:
roy children - Native peoples seventeen characters eight male; six female; three musicians one act
No description available. Title: Marginal Man, A
Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1994
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - violence - Indigenous theatre - Native peoples four characters two male; two female two acts
running time: 90 min.
Adam works for the city. When his co-worker, Claire becomes a victim of domestic violence, Adam starts a white-ribbon campaign at work, only to find himself a target of violence.
Title: Medicine Shows Indigenous performance culture Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2015
Description:
Reference - Canadian - theatre - Native peoples - Native playwright
Contemporary Indigenous theatre in Canada is just over thirty years old, if one begins counting from the premiere of Linda Griffiths and Maria Campbell’s Jessica in Saskatoon and the establishment of Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto. Since those contemporaneous events in 1982, the Canadian community of Indigenous theatre artists has grown and inspired one another. "Medicine Shows: Indigenous Performance Culture" traces the work of a host of these artists over the past three decades, illuminating the connections, the artistic genealogy, and the development of a contemporary Indigenous theatre practice. Neither a history nor a chronicle, Medicine Shows examines how theatre has been used to make medicine, reconnecting individuals and communities, giving voice to the silenced and disappeared, staging ceremony, and honouring the ancestors.
Title: Mercy Quilt, The in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Jensen, Lorre Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples all female cast; four characters four female Scenes 16, 22 and 23 from the play
'In (these) scenes from the radio play, Grace nurses some maternal grief that her only child, Lorraine, has never been asked and begins to explore the reasons for this oversight.' Title: Métis Mutt in - NextFest Anthology II / CCO Author: Elter, Sheldon Publisher: NeWest Press 2002
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Metis - Native peoples one character all male cast; one male one act
"The hilarious and heartbreaking one-man show that reveals the coming of age of a young Metis actor and comedian growing up between two cultures. Earnest without losing its sense of humour, Metis Mutt is an intimate, personal tale that unravels racial issues, and embraces the choice of life."
Title: Mill, The
Author: MacFadzean, Matthew Moscovitch, Hannah Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011
Description:
A unique theatrical endeavour comprised of four plays written by four of Canada’s most celebrated playwrights: Matthew MacFadzean, Hannah Moscovitch, Tara Beagan, and Damien Atkins. The series reveals the shocking story of a mill’s past, exposing the secrets of the land’s inhabitants as the plays jump through time.
Part 1: Now We Are Brody - Matthew MacFadzean Part 2: The Huron Bride - Hanna Moscovitz Part 3: The Woods - Tara Beagan Part 4: Ash - Damien Atkins
It’s 1854 at the start of Now We Are Brody. The mill is boarded up as the townsfolk attempt to bury a dark shame from their past, but the arrival of a young woman with the deed to the mill
Title: Molly has her say in - Keepers of the Morning Star / COL Author: Bruchac, Margaret Publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2003
Description:
roy drama - native peoples - native playwright - spirituality - history all female cast; two characters; one voice two female one act (three scenes)
The pieces of paper that make up this play are an attempt to record only the smallest fraction of the vital and complicated lives of Abenaki people in contact and conflict with Euro-Americans over the last 300 years. A woman attempts a research project, with her spirit guide trying to communicate to her as she does so. The writer responds to her 'spirit - guide' without hearing her. The spirit is a character from the past, brought into the present to convince Molly Marie to acknowledge how her personal history has been shaped by the past. Title: Moonlodge in - Singular Voices / COL Author: Kane, Margo Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1994
Description:
roy drama - monologues - Native peoples - women all female cast one character one act
As a child, Agnes, a Native girl, was snatched from her home and family by the government and brought up in white foster homes. This is her story of separation and repatriation with her people, her culture, and spirituality - her quest for her identity.
Title: More Than Feathers and Beads in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Borst, Murielle Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - drama - Native playwright all female cast; four characters one female (doubling) eight scenes
'More than Feather and Beads' is Murielle Borst's semi-autobiographical one-woman show which examines contemporary issues of identity for Native American women. Borst is a champion shawl dancer and wrote this theatrical comedy about her experiences competing in pow-wows across the country. As the title implies she finds there's more than feathers and beads to the pow-wow scene.
Title: New Voices Woman in - Stories from the Bush / CCO Author: Lewis, Larry E. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples twenty characters flexible casting one act
In "New Voices Woman" the protagonist is nameless until she overcomes fears and dangers, earns her medicine pouch, and finds her song. "New Voices Woman" both expresses self-knowledge and because she is androgynous, points towards the renewal of tradition. Music has great power in this story, speaking to deep desires, as does love; both must be valued. The real and powerful perils of greed, on the other hand, must be overcome, and life protected. The spectacle of ugliness depicted and of figures changing forms provide vivid theatre. Title: New World Brave in - Stories from the Bush / CCO Author: De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples all male cast; fourteen characters five male (doubling) two acts
"New World Brave" is a piece with an almost continual soundtrack, one whose refrain is "heal the circle that was broken and you'll find your wounds will mend." Five young men search for ways to bring ancient teachings into their complex contemporary lives, on the reserve and in the city. Images - some authentic, some misleading, all powerful - frame the piece. To quote from it: "we are the images we create."
Title: Nicimos The final Rez Christmas story Author: Peeteetuce, Curtis Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2015
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - Christmas - Native playwright eleven characters two male; two female (doubling) six scenes
This Christmas season, things have gone awry for the kohkoms of Kiwetinohk. Clare Bear is engaged to be married, Zula Merasty is moving off-reserve and Sihkos Sinclare is in jail. It all comes to fruition at Clare's stagette.
Title: No Home But the Heart: an assembly of memories in - Keepers of the Morning Star / COL Author: Daystar Jones, Rosalie M. Publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2003
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples - native people - dance - historical nine characters; narrator; dancers eight female; one male or female one act (twelve scenes)
From an early age, Daystar was intrigued by her mother’s stories of growing up in the Blackfeet Reservation. The tales were random yet intense in their revelations about family and tribal life on the reservation, from the smallpox epidemic through the turn of the century to today. In creating "No Home But The Heart", Daystar has drawn from selected events in the lives of her great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother and tied them to historical events affecting the resettlement of native peoples in the late 19th century. Because the family ancestry includes Title: NO' XYA (Our Footprints) in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO Author: Diamond, David Blackwater, Hall et al. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
Description:
roy Canadian - Political - Native peoples fourteen characters; extras ten male; four female (doubling possible) one act
A play about ancestral land. 'A collaboration between Headlines Theatre, a western theatre company, the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs and many individuals in the area surrounding Hazelyon, BC. It is an understanding between cultures and philosophies.'
Title: No' Xya' (Footprints) in - New Canadian Drama 5 / CCO Author: Diamond, David Publisher: Borealis Press 1987
Description:
roy Canadian - Political - Native peoples - drama fourteen characters; extras ten male; four female (doubling possible) one act
A Play About Ancestral Land
'A collaboration between Headlines Theatre, a western theatre company, the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs and many individuals in the area surrounding Hazelyon, BC. It is an understanding between cultures and philosophies.'
Title: Occupation of Heather Rose, The in - Modern Canadian Plays, Volume II third edition / CCO Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 1994
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples all female cast; one character one female one act
'Nurse Rose goes north to work on an Indian reserve. Her adventure turns to a painful exploration of her own fragile cultural identity.' Title: Occupation of Heather Rose, The in - NeWest Plays by Women / CCO Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: NeWest Press 1987
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples all female cast; one character one female one act
'Nurse Rose goes north to work on an Indian reserve. Her adventure turns to a painful exploration of her own fragile cultural identity.'
Title: Occupation of Heather Rose, The in - Staging the North / CCO Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples all female cast; one character one female one act
'Nurse Rose goes north to work on an Indian reserve. Her adventure turns to a painful exploration of her own fragile cultural identity.'
Title: October Stranger
Author: Lacroix, Denis Kenny, George Publisher: Chimo 1978
Description:
roy Canadian drama - Native peoples five characters three male; two female one act
A play based on George Kenny's poem "October Stranger". It describes the kind of conflicts that many young Native people are facing at the present time. Title: Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Talonbooks 1998
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples - family relations - Native playwright five characters three male; two female two acts
"The emotional story of a woman's struggle to acknowledge her birth family. Grace, a Native girl adopted by a white family, is asked by her birth sister to return to the Reserve for their mother's funeral. Afraid of opening old wounds, Grace must find a place where the culture of her past can feed the truth of her present."
Winner! 1996 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, Small Theatre Division.
Title: Ora Pro Nobis (Pray for Us) in - Two Plays About Residential School / CCO Author: Loyie, Oskiniko Larry Publisher: Living Traditions Writers Group 1998
Description:
roy comedy - Native peoples - Canadian - Native playwright nineteen characters flexible casting two acts
'Based on real-life experience, "Ora Pro Nobis" is a lively, often funny, full length play about a group of boys and how their friendship helps them survive residential school.'
Title: Pacific Coast Tragedy, A in - Plays of the Pacific Coast / CCO Author: Fairbairn, A. M. D. Publisher: Samuel French 1935
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - tragedy - Native peoples five characters three male; two female one act
"Ernest Hopwood has been ministering to the spiritual needs of the Indians in a native coastal village for twenty-six years. As a young man he married an Indian girl. Disillusionment followed. His two older daughters married badly; his only son is serving time in jail and his Indian wife has reverted to the primitive life. Unknown to her father, his youngest daughter, Mary, is also in trouble. Ernest's older brother is dying in England and sends out his solicitor to induce Ernest to come home. Ernest is explaining the utter impossibility of this when he learns of Mary's trouble..." Title: Path With no Moccasins in - Canadian Mosaic / CCO Author: Cheechoo, Shirley Publisher: Simon and Pierre Publishing 1995
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - women - self realizations - Native peoples all female cast; one character one female one act
"A young Cree girl endures life at a residential school, and later heals herself. The play raises issues of identity, discrimination, and self-destruction, but ends positively."
Title: Path With no Moccasins in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Cheechoo, Shirley Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - women - self-realizations - Native peoples all female cast; one character one female one act
"A young Cree girl endures life at a residential school, and later heals herself. The play raises issues of identity, discrimination, and self-destruction, but ends positively."
Title: Performing Indigeneity
Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2016
Description:
Reference - essays - Native peoples - Indigenous theatre
This volume of newly commissioned essays about Indigenous performance is the first in which all of the contributors are Indigenous artists or academics. Scholars were invited to write essays on some aspect of Indigenous performance and artists were asked to contribute statements on whatever they felt was important to them as theatre creators. As with any good assembly of like-minded members, themes and observations emerged, dovetailing and echoing each other, touching on theatre training, cultural identity, Indigenous theatre history, and claiming space, among others. A companion to the existing two-volume anthology "Staging Coyote’s Dream", the authors gathered here - identifying as Cree, Mohawk, Creek, Ntlakapamux, Stó:l?, and many other nations - open a conversation, inviting more voices to join in illuminating the history of Indigenous performance in Canada and blazing a trail forward. Contributors: Tara Beagan, Jill Title: Please Do Not Touch the Indians in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Dandurand, Joseph A. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters four male; two female two acts
With Sister Coyote, Brother Raven, Mister Wolf, a tourist, and two wooden Indians, Dandurand’s tender and heart-wrenching tale portrays the struggles and dreams of Native Americans through history. His powerful storytelling style uses animal imagery and social stereotypes to create a strong and moving depiction of Native Americans and their ability to love, laugh, and survive despite tragic loss.
Title: Possum's Tail in - Pushing Up the Sky / CHC Author: Bruchac, Joseph Publisher: Penguin Books 2000
Description:
non-roy folk tales - Native peoples - children - Cherokee large cast flexible casting (eight or more children) one act
Description not available.
Title: Post Mistress, The A one-woman musical Author: Highway, Tomson Publisher: Talonbooks 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - musical comedy - rural life - Native peoples⌦all female cast; one character; pianist; saxophonist one female two acts
alternate title: The (Post) Mistress. Born and raised in Lovely, Ontario, a small French-Canadian farming village near Lake Huron, Marie-Louise Painchaud has never had occasion to venture much farther than the nearest community – Complexity, a copper-mining town and a somewhat larger dot on the map of the Georgia Bay area. For thirty years, Marie-Louise has worked at the local post office, and, through the many letters she sorts when they arrive and the ones that she stamps before they go out, she Title: Prairie Tomten in - Write On! / CCO Author: Love, Mary Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy bullying - drama - young audiences six characters two male; four female one act
Prairie Tomten, about a 12 year-old girl and her friendship with an elderly Aboriginal man called Mr. Bitternose. Love addresses issues of bullying both large and small as she weaves together the story of Laura—and her attempt to protect a feral cat from the “Town Girls,” who seem to enjoy tormenting her with little or no motivation—and the story of Mr. Bitternose. “Mr. B” seems to know more than he wishes to remember or to tell about the “starlight rides” given to Natives by police officers who dump their passengers on the outskirts of town, sometimes in the dead of
Title: Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots in - Canadian Theatre Review No.64, Fall 1990 / PER Author: Mojica, Monique Publisher: Miscellaneous 1990
Description:
roy parody - Native issues - Native peoples - Native playwright all female cast; large cast two female (doubling) one act
'A cynical, parodic and historical overview of the experience of Native women in the Americas.'
Title: Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots in - Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots / CCO Author: Mojica, Monique Publisher: Women's Press 1991
Description:
roy parody - Native issues - Native peoples - Native playwright all female cast; large cast two female (doubling) one act
'A cynical, parodic and historical overview of the experience of Native women in the Americas.' Title: Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots
Author: Mojica, Monique Publisher: Women's Press 1991
Description:
roy collection - Canadian - Monique Mojica - Native peoples - Native playwright
contains: Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots Birdwoman and the Suffragettes: a Story of Sacajawea
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 / CCO Author: Mojica, Monique Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1990
Description:
roy parody - Native peoples - Native playwright all female cast; many characters two female (doubling) one act
'A cynical, parodic and historical overview of the experience of Native women in the Americas.'
Title: Pushing Up the Sky in - Pushing Up the Sky / CHC Author: Bruchac, Joseph Publisher: Penguin Books 2000
Description:
non-roy Native peoples - folklore - children - Snohomish large cast flexible casting (twelve children or more) one act
Description not available. Title: Pushing Up The Sky Seven Native American Plays for Children Author: Bruchac, Joseph Flavin, Teresa Publisher: Penguin Books 2000
Description:
non-roy children - Native peoples - collection
contains: Gluskabe and Old Man Winter Star Sisters Possum's Tail Wihio's Duck Dance Pushing up the Sky The Cannibal Monster The Strongest One Also includes tips for staging and costuming the plays, as well a a short description of each of
Title: Reckoning
Author: Beagan, Tara Moro, Andy Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2016
Description:
roy drama - Canada - native peoples four characters; voices two male; two female one act (three parts)
'Reckoning' is an ode to the irreconcilable. A triptych in movement, video and text, 'Reckoning' is an incendiary theatrical presentation of three separate experiences with Indian Residential Schools, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the fallout that has already reverberated across the country.
Title: Rememberer, The
Author: Dietz, Steven Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2003
Description:
roy Native peoples - American - biography seventeen characters; dancers; musicians five male; four female; eight boys and girls two acts
'In 1911 Joyce Simmons Cheeka, a young Squaxin Indian girl was forcibly taken from her family and sent to a Government boarding school. This is her true story. Title: Reverb-ber-ber-rations in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 / CCO Author: Spiderwoman Theatre Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1992
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright all female cast; three characters three female one act
Deals with the persistence of memory across generations.
Title: Rez Sisters, The
Author: Highway, Tomson Publisher: Fifth House 1988
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright eight characters one male; seven female two acts
1 exterior set.
This award-winning play by Native playwright Tomson Highway is a powerful and moving portrayal of seven women from a reserve attempting to beat the odds by winning at bingo. And not just any bingo. It is the biggest bingo in the world and a chance to win a way out of a tortured life. The REZ sisters is hilarious, shocking, mystical and powerful, and clearly establishes the
Title: Rez Sisters, The
Author: Highway, Tomson Publisher: Fifth House 1988
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright eight characters one male; seven female two acts
1 exterior set.
This award-winning play by Native playwright Tomson Highway is a powerful and moving portrayal of seven women from a reserve attempting to beat the odds by winning at bingo. And not just any bingo. It is the biggest bingo in the world and a chance to win a way out of a tortured life. The REZ sisters is hilarious, shocking, mystical and powerful, and clearly establishes the Title: Rez Sisters, The
Author: Highway, Tomson Publisher: Fifth House 1988
Description:
roy comedy - Canadian - Native peoples - Native playwright eight characters one male; seven female two acts
1 exterior set.
This award-winning play by Native playwright Tomson Highway is a powerful and moving portrayal of seven women from a reserve attempting to beat the odds by winning at bingo. And not just any bingo. It is the biggest bingo in the world and a chance to win a way out of a tortured life. The REZ sisters is hilarious, shocking, mystical and powerful, and clearly establishes the
Title: Rose
Author: Highway, Tomson Publisher: Talonbooks 2003
Description:
roy Canadian - musical - women - Native peoples twenty-two characters seven male; ten female (doubling) three acts
The play features, as the title suggests, Roses. One Rose has become chief of the reserve, a woman who must fight constantly to keep her position and maintain the integrity of her native culture. Another Rose died seven years earlier on her glorious, but grievous journey to women's liberation. The third Rose never even had a chance to be born. Emily Dictionary and some of her female biker pals take center stage when Big Joey enlists the Sudbury Mafia to help with his plans to open a multi-million dollar dream casino in the women's cherished Community Hall on the Rez.
Title: Saga of Tom Three Persons, The
Author: Pengilly, Gordon Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 1996
Description:
roy drama - biography - Native peoples - Canadian - Alberta playwright twenty-four characters nineteen male; five female two acts
The true story of the Blackfoot Indian, who against all odds, political, social and personal, won the saddle-bronc championship at the inaugural Calgary Stampede in 1912 by riding the unbeatable Cyclone to a standstill. The play centres on the newspaper reporter who at his own peril sets out to investigate the illusive and enigmatic cowboy with tumultuous results. Title: Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons
Author: Nichol, James W. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical - Native peoples all male cast; eleven characters eleven male two acts
A play about the conscience of a priest during the disastrous mission the Jesuits made to the Huron Indians in the 17th century.
Title: Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons
Author: Nichol, James W. Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1977
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - historical - Native peoples all male cast; eleven characters eleven characters two acts
A play about the conscience of a priest during the disastrous mission the Jesuits made to the Huron Indians in the 17th century.
Title: Salt Baby
Author: Johnson, Falen Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2013
Description:
roy comedy - identity - Native peoples - racism - Canadian fifteen characters flexible casting one act
Growing up on the Six Nations Native Reserve, Salt Baby never quite fit in -- her fair skin and curly hair made her more of a Shirley Temple type than a Pocohontas type. As a young woman, Salt Baby begins to explore her identity. Blood quantum, DNA tests, family tress... What does it mean on the Rez? In the city? Will Alligator ever understand? Will she? With affection and humour, "Salt Baby" tackles the question of First Nations identity in the 21st century. Title: Scraps in - Theatre Arts / YCL Author: McIntyre, Tagore J. Publisher: National Textbook Company 1997
Description:
roy Native peoples - school - classrooms ten characters; extras eight boys; two girls one act
A multicultural play written by a ten-year-old based on his experience in his own classroom.
Title: Scrubbing Project, The in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Turtle Gals Performance Ensemble Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - identity - Native playwright all female cast; nine characters three female (doubling) full length
'The Scrubbing Project' is an exploration of self-effacing and self-erasing, derived from the impulse of wanting to scrub and cleanse oneself of one's colour; of one's own skin. It effectively juxtaposes grief with the hilarity and absurdities of being three mixed-blood Native women at the turn of the 21st century.
Title: Séance in - Two-Spirit Acts / CCO Author: Monkman, Kent Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - solo performance - LGBTQ+ - Native peoples all male cast; one character one male one act
"Séance" was performed on October 19, 2007 by Kent Monkman at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, Ontario. Monkman created the piece in response to being censored from the First Peoples Gallery at the ROM during the Shapeshifters exhibition. In her conversations with the spirits of nineteenth-century painters Eugene Delacroix, Paul Kane and George Caitlin, Miss Chief's costumes grow increasingly larger and more outlandish as the responses of each successive artist draws more of her ire. Title: Search for a Friend in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 73, Winter 1992 / PER Author: Tunooniq Theatre Publisher: Miscellaneous 1992
Description:
roy script outline - Canadian - Inuit - drama - Native peoples all male cast; six characters six male one act
'Tunooniq's script outline for a play concerning ways of dealing with and overcoming substance abuse individually and as a community.'
Title: Sisters
Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples six characters two male; four female two acts
Sisters is a tough uncompromising look at a convent-run Native residential school. While the play chronicles in graphic detail the by now well-documented agenda of cultural genocide which motivated the establishment of Native residential schools in Canada, the daring triumph of this play is that it reveals the far less well documented cultural infrastructure and values of the society which created those schools - the church and the state of white, colonial, paternalist Canada.
Title: Sisters
Author: Lill, Wendy Publisher: Talonbooks 1991
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples six characters two male; four female two acts
Sisters is a tough uncompromising look at a convent-run Native residential school. While the play chronicles in graphic detail the by now well-documented agenda of cultural genocide which motivated the establishment of Native residential schools in Canada, the daring triumph of this play is that it reveals the far less well documented cultural infrastructure and values of the society which created those schools - the church and the state of white, colonial, paternalist Canada. Title: Sixty Below in - Staging the North / CCO Author: Linklater, Leonard Flather, Patti Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1999
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples seven characters five male; two female one act
"'Sixty Below' is the name of the bar where Rosi, a young Gwich'in woman, Henry's 'old lady' and Johnnie's sister, works, where the male characters congregate, and where much of the action takes place. 'Sixty Below' captures in words the concept of a North where temperatures drop to levels few can survive. In one sense, the name of the bar resonates with the macho image of the stereotypical tough northerner; in another, it suggests the deep cold that, together with drink, is an actual and metaphorical threat to life: the deep cold of displacement, of loss of identity, and of
Title: Someday in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - family relations - Native peoples four characters one male; three female one scene
"Anne Wabung's daughter was taken away by children's aid workers when the girl was only a toddler. It is Christmas-time 35 years later, and Anne's yearning to see her now-grown daughter. When the family is finally reunited, however, the dreams of neither woman are fulfilled. The setting for the play is a fictional Ojibway community, but could be any reserve in Canada, where thousands of Native children were removed from their families in what is known among Native people as the "scoop-up" of the 1950s and 1960s. 'Someday' is an entertaining, humorous, and
Title: Someday
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Fifth House 2016
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - Canadian - family relations - Native peoples four characters one male; three female two acts
"Anne Wabung's daughter was taken away by children's aid workers when the girl was only a toddler. It is Christmas-time 35 years later, and Anne's yearning to see her now-grown daughter. When the family is finally reunited, however, the dreams of neither woman are fulfilled. The setting for the play is a fictional Ojibway community, but could be any reserve in Canada, where thousands of Native children were removed from their families in what is known among Native people as the "scoop-up" of the 1950s and 1960s. 'Someday' is an entertaining, humorous, and Title: SongCatcher: a native interpretation of the story of Frances Densmore in - Keepers of the Morning Star / COL Author: Rendon, Marcie R. Publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2003
Description:
roy native playwright - biographical - women - Native peoples eighteen characters eight male; ten female three acts
Marcie's play is about a collector named Frances Densmore. The setting is present day. A young Native man named Jack and his Native girlfriend Chris are the main characters. Chris was raised with her Native community. Jack was not. He knows he's Native, and he goes to powwows and hangs out with Native people. He wants to know more, though, about his own tribe, and he especially wants a song of his own. Bill is an older Native man who visits with Jack and Chris in their apartment. Both Chris and Bill tell Jack that the song will come to him, that he has to listen
Title: Squawk
Author: Coles, Megan Gail Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2017
Description:
roy drama - young adult - Canadian playwright - Indigenous peoples three characters two male; one female one act
This daring new play from Newfoundland playwright Megan Gail Coles showcases a bold and refreshing approach to theatre for young audiences. Coles deftly interweaves Canada's colonial history with online gaming as our Indigenous protagonist struggles to understand and reconcile her past, present and future. Annie Runningbird doesn’t have time for the games boys want her to play. She’s aging out of foster care on her next birthday. The system has decided she is an adult, so Annie must make adult decisions. Where will she live? How will she make money? Demanding
Title: Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 An anthology of First Nations drama in English Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2003
Description:
roy Canadian collection - Native peoples
'An anthology of First Nations drama in English, Staging Coyote's Dream is the first anthology of First Nations plays to be published in Canada. It brings together major plays by First Nations playwrights living in Canada and the United States.'
contains: The Independence of Eddie Rose - William S. Yellow Robe Jr. Aria - Tomson Highway Reverb-ber-ber-ations - Spiderwoman Theatre Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots - Monique Mojica Title: Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 An anthology of First Nations drama in English Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian collection - Native peoples
includes: Path With No Moccasins - Shirley Cheechoo The Indian Medicine Shows - Daniel David Moses More Than Feathers and Beads - Murielle Borst Annie Mae's Movement - Yvette Nolan Trail of the Otter - Muriel Miguel Governor of the Dew: A Memorial to Nostalgia and Desire - Floyd Favel Confessions of an Indian Cowboy - Margo Kane Burning Vision - Marie Clements
Title: Star Sisters in - Pushing Up the Sky / CHC Author: Bruchac, Joseph Publisher: Penguin Books 2000
Description:
non-roy Native peoples - children - Ojibway / Chippewa - folk tales large cast flexible casting (thirteen or more children) one act
Description not available.
Title: Star Story in - Multicultural Plays for Children v. 1 / CHC Author: Gerke, Pamela Publisher: Smith and Kraus 1996
Description:
non-roy folk tales - children - Native peoples - Lushootseed Salish large cast flexible casting (eleven to thirty children) one act
This is the story of a young man's "spirit journey". A "spirit journey" is when a person goes on a journey of self-discovery and comes back with the wisdom of self-knowledge or spiritual insight. Title: Stories from the Bush The Woodland Plays of De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2009
Description:
roy Canadian collection - De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre - aboriginal culture - Native peoples
includes: Lupi, The Great White Wolf - Larry E. Lewis with Esther Jacko New World Brave - De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Ever! That Nanabush! - Daphne Odjig-Beavon and De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre The Indian Affairs - De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre New Voices Woman - Larry E. Lewis The Gift - De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Strength of Indian Women, The in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Manuel, Vera Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy drama - monologue - Native peoples - Canada all female cast; one character one female one act
This monologue is part of a larger series of stories told by Native women who were abused in many ways by the residential school system. 'This play illustrates the tremendous will of Aboriginal people to survive and over come these abuses. When the women tell their stories they open the doors back to the future generations and they unlock the chains of the past.'
Title: Strength of Indian Women, The in - Two Plays About Residential School / CCO Author: Manuel, Vera Publisher: Living Traditions Writers Group 1992
Description:
roy Native peoples - historical - drama all female cast; six characters five female; one girl two acts
'Four elders prepare for a teenaged girl's coming of age feast. As they work together, the women reveal the secrets of their school years.' Title: Stretching Hide
Author: Lakevold, Dale Racine, Jean Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2007
Description:
roy drama - Metis - community - Native peoples⌦seven characters (five characters are Metis) four male; three female two acts
The Willows, Saskatchewan: Frank, a young Métis lawyer, introduces his fiancé to the idyllic life of his community one July long weekend. That weekend his law practice and his personal life are threatened when the provincial game wardens accuse him of poaching a deer.
Winner of the Canadian National Playwriting Competition.
Title: Strongest One, The in - Pushing Up the Sky / CHC Author: Bruchac, Joseph Publisher: Penguin Books 2000
Description:
non-roy children - folk tales - Native peoples - Zuni large cast flexible casting (seventeen children or more) one act
Description not available.
Title: Sucker Falls
Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Playwrights Guild of Canada 2002
Description:
roy Canadian - musical - drama - Native peoples eight characters five male; three female two acts
An aboriginal musical influenced by the work of Brecht and Weill. A Family sets up a casino on a Native reserve and three men arrive to sample its pleasures, with disastrous results. Title: Suicide Notes in - Three on the Boards / CCO Author: Williams, Kenneth T. Publisher: Signature Editions 2007
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roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples three characters one male; two female nine scenes
"The story of a homeless woman who writes suicide notes for random passers-by on the street, the play explores that intense need that writers possess to create; and questions the assumptions of what actually constitutes credible literature."
Title: Takeover of the Andrew Jackson Reading Room in - Keepers of the Morning Star / COL Author: Adare, Sierra Publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2003
Description:
roy dramatic comedy - Native peoples - Native playwright - storytelling large cast flexible casting one act (nine scenes)
The play is intended as a bridge between Native and American cultural perceptions. A group of native writers gather in the Andrew Jackson reading room of a library to read their works aloud. As writers begin to read their work, it is then acted out downstage.
Title: Tales of an Urban Indian in - Darrell Dennis: Two Plays / CCO Author: Dennis, Darrell Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy Canadian - dark comedy - Native peoples - Native playwright large cast all male cast; one male (doubling) nineteen scenes
A one-person play that follows the trials and tribulations of Simon Douglas, a young Native man who moves from his rural reservation to the big city of Vancouver. This dark comedy examines the issues of race, identity, and assimilation that drive young, Native males to self-destruction. Title: Taxonomy of the European Male in - Two-Spirit Acts / CCO Author: Monkman, Kent Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - solo performance - LGBTQ+ - Native peoples all male cast; one character one male one act
The description is found in "The noble savage was a drag queen" by Kerry Swanson and refers to a performance at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, ON: "In this performance, Share [Miss Chief Eagle Testickle] arrives on the back of a white horse, resplendent in elaborate headdress, Louis Vuitton and Hudson Bay Company accessories, and cartoonish drag-queen heels. On her way into the gallery space, she entices two young white men dressed in loincloths, who become the subjects of her "taxonomy of the European male." Bringing
Title: Te Pouaka Karaehe: The Glass Box in - Airborne / CCO Author: Renee Publisher: Blizzard Publishing 1991
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples all female cast; five characters and extras five female radio play
"This play examines a modern Maori woman's attempt to reconcile tradition and change."
Title: Teaching Disco Square Dancing to Our Elders A class presentation Author: FastHorse, Larissa Publisher: Dramatic Publishing Company 2011
Description:
roy drama - friendship - romance - Native peoples - culture four characters two male; two female three parts
original music by Brian Joseph.
Kenny Two Hawks and Martin Leads to Water have problems. It's the end of middle school, and Kenny is on the brink of not getting in to high school. Through a random drawing, the boys are assigned bizarre topics for their last middle-school presentation: 'Do It Yourself Disco' and 'Teaching Square Dancing to Senior Citizens.' Enter Amanda Smith, the half-white, half-Native Title: Theatre of Neptune in New France in - Spectacle of Empire / CCO Author: Lescarbot, Marc translated by Eugene Benson and Renate Benso Publisher: Talonbooks 2006
Description:
nonroy Canadian - historical drama - Quebec - Native peoples thirteen characters; extras flexible casting one act
1982 translation.
"Arguably the first American play "The Theatre of Neptune in New France" by lawyer, poet and historian Marc Lescarbot was a masque of welcome performed on the Bay of Fundy by members of the tiny French colony of Port Royal on November 14, 1606. It celebrated the return of the ship bearing the Sieur de Poutrincourt and navigator-explorer Samuel de Champlain from their travels
Title: Theatre of Neptune in New France in - Spectacle of Empire / CCO Author: Lescarbot, Marc translated by Harriette Taber Richardson Publisher: Talonbooks 2006
Description:
nonroy Canadian - historical drama - Quebec - Native peoples thirteen characters; extras flexible casting one act
1927 translation.
"Arguably the first American play "The Theatre of Neptune in New France" by lawyer, poet and historian Marc Lescarbot was a masque of welcome performed on the Bay of Fundy by members of the tiny French colony of Port Royal on November 14, 1606. It celebrated the return of the ship bearing the Sieur de Poutrincourt and navigator-explorer Samuel de Champlain from their travels
Title: Theatre of Neptune in New France, The in - Canada's Lost Plays: Volume 4 / CCO Author: Lescarbot, Marc Publisher: CTR Publications 1982
Description:
nonroy Canadian - historical drama - Quebec - Native peoples thirteen characters; extras flexible casting one act
"Arguably the first American play "The Theatre of Neptune in New France" by lawyer, poet and historian Marc Lescarbot was a masque of welcome performed on the Bay of Fundy by members of the tiny French colony of Port Royal on November 14, 1606. It celebrated the return of the ship bearing the Sieur de Poutrincourt and navigator-explorer Samuel de Champlain from their travels along the coastline as far south as Cape Cod in search of a more temperate site for the colony. It is a paean to empire, a thanksgiving for survival and an extraordinary theatrical spectacle in a Title: This is for Aborelia Dominguez in - Beyond the Pale / CCO Author: Mojica, Monique Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1996
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - verse - monologue - Native peoples all female cast; one character one female one act
'On January 12, 1994, a photograph of a Mayan woman appeared on the front page of "The Toronto Star". Her name is Aborelia Dominguez. She comes from the same territory as my husband, I had been there, I had loved ones there who were afraid of the federal army. We are 'Indios', after all. As as Indigenous woman, my memory of genocide is long. It is a grief I cannot yet put down. The annihilation is happening now.'
Title: Thunderstick
Author: Williams, Kenneth T. Publisher: Scirocco Drama 2010
Description:
roy Canadian - dramatic comedy - family relationships - Native peoples all male cast; two characters two male two acts
Jacob is an an alcoholic reporter, his estranged cousin Isaac is a worldly photojournalist just recently returned to Canada - and their editor pairs them up to cover a story on Parliament Hill. The problems start when Jacob vomits onto the Prime minister, an act which is mistaken for an assassination attempt. While in jail, the cousins get information which sends them on a madcap romp to try and track down what might be the story of their lives, involving a government cover-up, an international fugitive and a lesbian love nest in the Northern Ontario woods. When
Title: Tikta 'liktak in - Eight Plays for Young People / CHC Author: Paisley, Brian Publisher: NeWest Press 1982
Description:
roy children - Canadian - Native peoples - adventure - Inuit four characters one male; three male or female one act
duration - 45 minutes.
A young Inuit hunter finds himself trapped on an iceberg and he must learn to survive. Title: Tombs of the Vanishing Indian
Author: Clements, Marie Publisher: Talonbooks 2012
Description:
roy drama - Native peoples - relocation - sterilization - Canadian eleven characters three male; four female (doubling) one act
Three Young Native American sisters and their mother board a bus bound for Los Angeles, leaving home as part of a 1950s government mandate to relocate reserve Indians to urban centres. This assimilationist policy was one focus of Métis playwright Marie Clements’s research when she was commissioned to create a new play for the tenth anniversary of the Native Voices series at the Autry National Center, Los Angeles. Clements dramatizes the emotional, psychological and social repercussions of this, and subsequent, bureaucratic incursions into the
Title: Tommy Prince Story, The in - 3 Plays / CCO Author: King, Alanis Publisher: Fifth House 2015
Description:
roy drama - biography - native peoples - native playwright - Canadian large cast flexible casting one act (nine scenes)
The Tommy Prince Story is an emotionally charged drama that brings to light the incredible life and times of the great Saulteaux warrior.
Title: Toronto at Dreamer's Rock in - Toronto at Dreamer's Rock & Education is Our Right / YCL Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Fifth House
Description:
roy young adult drama - Canadian - Native peoples - self awareness - Native playwright all male cast; three characters three boys one act
'(The play) is a moving portrayal of a teenage boy who is torn between the traditions of his people, which he only vaguely understands, and the lure of modern life. His magical encounters with two members of his tribe - one from 400 years in the past and one from the future - make him aware of how little he has thought about what it means to be an Indian.' Title: Toronto at Dreamer's Rock and Education is Our Right Two one-act plays Author: Taylor, Drew Hayden Publisher: Fifth House 1990
Description:
roy - collection - Native peoples - Canadian - Native playwright
includes: Toronto at Dreamers Rock Education is Our Right
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Tragedy of Tanoo, The in - Plays of the Pacific Coast / CCO Author: Fairbairn, A. M. D. Publisher: Samuel French 1935
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - tragedy - Native peoples five characters three male; two female one act
"A play about the tragedy which almost wiped out the Haida Indian tribe in 1863. Tian, a young Haida girl, is in love with Kungaas, a chief's son, but is also attracted to Skelu. Small-pox which has broken out amongst the Indians. Kungaas is going on a fishing expedition. Tian, afraid, wants to go with him. Kungaas promises to go away with her upon his return. He leaves. Skelu then makes love to Tian. She repulses him. He attempts to assault her. Six weeks later Kungaas returns to find the village a city of the dead. Tian is lying ill...
Title: Trail of the Otter in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 2 / CCO Author: Miguel, Muriel Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2008
Description:
roy Canadian - Native peoples - drama - Native playwright all female cast; one character one female one act
multi-disciplinary piece incorporating storytelling, song and dance with set design and video projections.
"'Trail of the Otter' is a multi-dimensional, multi-layered story that creates contemporary Two-Spirited cultural heroes rooted in traditional cosmologies and teaching stories. This is important because the history of the Two-Spirited people has been largely ignored, omitted Title: Traps in - Canadian Theatre Review - Vol 117 / PER Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Miscellaneous 2004
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples eleven characters nine male; two female one act
“ "Traps" is a tough and dynamic play that provides insight into the fears and hopes of the people who were in dispute over the Marshall Decision on Aboriginal fisheries. It has the potential to build bridges of respect and understanding among our communities, that we have not seen for generations, if not centuries."
Title: Traps in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 117, Winter 2004 / PER Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Miscellaneous 2004
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples eleven characters two male; one female (doubling) one act
“ "Traps" is a tough and dynamic play that provides insight into the fears and hopes of the people who were in dispute over the Marshall Decision on Aboriginal fisheries. It has the potential to build bridges of respect and understanding among our communities, that we have not seen for generations, if not centuries."
Title: Tribe
Author: Linden, Barbara Publisher: New Plays for Children 1970
Description:
roy children - Native peoples - participation play nine characters three male; six female one act
open stage; 1 hour; intended audience ages 6 to 12.
An authentic play about Native Americans is a rare find. A play that actually gives children some of the experiences of being a native American, of sharing in their lives and rituals and dangers, is even rarer. Tribe offers such an experience to your audiences. Title: Trickster of Third Avenue East, The in - Darrell Dennis: Two Plays / CCO Author: Dennis, Darrell Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
Description:
roy Canadian - dark comedy - Native peoples three characters two male; one female two acts
Roger and Mary are spiraling out of control but are too scared to let each other go. Enter J.C., a mysterious visitor who turns their lives upside down and forces them to confront their darkest secrets. J.C. pushes Roger and Mary into the realm of the supernatural and past the brink of sanity.
Title: True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7, The
Author: Treaty 7 Elders and Tribal Council Hildebrandt, Walter Publisher: McGill-Queen's University 1996
Description:
Reference - Canada - Treaties - Native peoples
There are several historical accounts of the 1877 Treaty 7 agreement between the prairie First Nations and the Canadian and British governments but none from the perspective of the aboriginal people involved. "The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7" gathers the "collective memory" of the elders, based on an oral history, to provide unique insights into a crucial historical event.
The testimony of over 80 elders from the First Nations involved in Treaty 7 - the Bloods, Peigans, Siksika, Stoney, and Tsuu T'ina - highlights a critical point: the treaty as the elders understood it was a peace treaty, not a surrender of land. They had agreed to "share" the land with the white newcomers in exchange for resources to allow the development of new economies, educational
Title: Twin Sinks of Allan Sammy, The
Author: Hubert, Cam Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1973
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples - high school seven characters four male; three female one act
An Indian in the city is tempted to trade his heritage for survival on the White Man's terms. Title: Two Plays About Residential Schools
Author: Publisher: Living Traditions Writers Group 1999
Description:
roy collection - drama - Canadian - historical - Native peoples
includes: Ora Pro Nobis (Pray For Us) - by Oskiniko Larry Loyie Strength of Indian Women - by Vera Manuel
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Two-Spirit Acts Queer Indigenous Performances Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2013
Description:
roy - collection - Canadian - solo performance - Native peoples - LGBTQ+
includes: Hot 'n' Soft - Muriel Miguel Taxonomy of the European Male - Kent Monkman Séance - Kent Monkman Justice of the Piece - Kent Monkman Agokwe - Waawaate Fobister
See separate entries for further description of each play.
Title: Under Coyote's Eye A play about Ishi Author: Beissel, Henry Publisher: Quadrant 1980
Description:
roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples fourteen characters; extras nine male; two female; three flexible full length (one act)
"A poetic rendering of two days in the life of Ishi, the last survivor of the doomed Yahi tribe, whose people were slaughtered by white settlers and gold-seekers." Title: Unnatural and Accidental Women, The
Author: Clements, Marie Publisher: Talonbooks 2005
Description:
roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - British Columbia - Native playwright twenty characters; voice overs nine male; eleven female two acts
'This is a play based on a true murder case in Vancouver which resulted in the deaths of at least ten women and many more "mystery deaths" of women in the Hastings Street area, unofficially referred to as "Skid Row". All of the women were found dead with a blood alcohol reading far beyond normal human consumption, and all of them were last seen with a Gilbert Paul Jordan, a local barber who frequented the local bars preying primarily on middle-aged Native women.'
Title: Unnatural and Accidental Women, The in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 101, Winter 2000 / PER Author: Clements, Marie Publisher: Miscellaneous 2000
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roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - British Columbia - Native playwright twenty characters; voice overs nine male; eleven female two acts
'This is a play based on a true murder case in Vancouver which resulted in the deaths of at least ten women and many more "mystery deaths" of women in the Hastings Street area, unofficially referred to as "Skid Row". All of the women were found dead with a blood alcohol reading far beyond normal human consumption, and all of them were last seen with a Gilbert Paul Jordan, a local barber who frequented the local bars preying primarily on middle-aged Native women.'
Title: Unnatural and Accidental Women, The in - Staging Coyote's Dream v. 1 / CCO Author: Clements, Marie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
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roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples - British Columbia - Native playwright twenty characters; voice overs nine male; eleven female two acts
'This is a play based on a true murder case in Vancouver which resulted in the deaths of at least ten women and many more "mystery deaths" of women in the Hastings Street area, unofficially referred to as "Skid Row". All of the women were found dead with a blood alcohol reading far beyond normal human consumption, and all of them were last seen with a Gilbert Paul Jordan, a local barber who frequented the local bars preying primarily on middle-aged Native women.' Title: Unnatural and Accidental Women, The in - Playing the Pacific Province / CCO Author: Clements, Marie Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2001
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roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - British Columbia - Native playwright twenty characters; voice overs nine male; eleven female two acts
'This is a play based on a true murder case in Vancouver which resulted in the deaths of at least ten women and many more "mystery deaths" of women in the Hastings Street area, unofficially referred to as "Skid Row". All of the women were found dead with a blood alcohol reading far beyond normal human consumption, and all of them were last seen with a Gilbert Paul Jordan, a local barber who frequented the local bars preying primarily on middle-aged Native women.'
Title: Unplugging, The
Author: Nolan, Yvette Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
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roy Canadian - drama - aging - infertility - Native peoples⌦three characters one male; two female one act
In an instant, electricity all over the world stops flowing, and humanity is left in the dark. Bern and Elena, exiled from their village for being too old to bear children, trudge across the desolate, post-apocalyptic ruin. Relying upon traditional wisdom for their survival, they retreat from the remains of civilization to a frozen wooded landscape where they attempt to carry on after the end of the world. When a charismatic stranger from the village arrives seeking their aid, Bern and Elena must decide whether they will use their knowledge of the past to give the society that rejected them a chance at a future.
Title: Walsh in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (3rd ed. ) / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Talonbooks 1993
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roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright - Native peoples fourteen characters eleven male; three female two acts
An historical documentary of Sitting Bull's exile in Canada after the Montana Massacre at Little Big Horn. Title: Walsh
Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Talonbooks 1973
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roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright - Native peoples fourteen characters eleven male; three female two acts
An historical documentary of Sitting Bull's exile in Canada after the Montana Massacre at Little Big Horn.
Title: Walsh
Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Talonbooks 1973
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roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright - Native peoples fourteen characters eleven male; three female two acts
An historical documentary of Sitting Bull's exile in Canada after the Montana Massacre at Little Big Horn.
Title: Walsh in - Sharon Pollack: Collected Works: Volume 1 / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2005
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roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright - Native peoples fourteen characters eleven male; three female two acts
An historical documentary of Sitting Bull's exile in Canada after the Montana Massacre at Little Big Horn. Title: Walsh in - Modern Canadian Plays Vol. 1 (rev. ed.) / CCO Author: Pollock, Sharon Publisher: Talonbooks 1986
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roy drama - Canadian - historical - Alberta playwright - Native peoples fourteen characters eleven male; three female two acts
An historical documentary of Sitting Bull's exile in Canada after the Montana Massacre at Little Big Horn.
Title: War Drums of Skedans, The in - Plays of the Pacific Coast / CCO Author: Fairbairn, A. M. D. Publisher: Samuel French 1935
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roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples - men all male cast; four characters four male one act
"At nightfall four men, a Spaniard, an old Haida Indian, his middle-aged son, and his young grandson, are gathered around a fire of drift-logs on a beach fronting a deserted and ruined Indian village on an island off the coast of British Columbia. The old Indian instinctively hates the Spaniard who is the descendant of a Spanish Captain who, one hundred and fifty years previously, had with his crew, despoiled the women of the village during the absence of the men of the tribe."
Title: Wawatay
Author: Gummerson, Penny Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2002
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roy drama - family relations - Native peoples - Native playwright six characters three male; three female two acts
According to Cree legend, when the Northern Lights (Wawatay) dance, they have come to take the souls of the newly-departed to the Spirit World. When Lois is unexpectedly hospitalised, her husband and four children are forced to come together and confront family demons. They seem to have their dysfunctional lives under control until estranged younger sister Jaz shows up from Vancouver. The black sheep of the family, Jaz disrupts the family balance by challenging it. She has embraced her Native heritage and as her mother lies in a coma and the Northern Lights dance, Title: When the World Was Young in - Pinocchio and When the World Was Young / CHC Author: Breslow, Maurice Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 1982
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roy children - Canadian - Story Theatre - Native peoples - legends twenty characters; flexible casting (adults or children) one act
intended audience ages 4 to 12.
Indian creation legends are recounted in a rich, humorous panorama.
Title: Where Stories Meet An oral history of De-ba-jeh-mu-jig theatre Author: Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2007
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Native peoples - theatre - history
WHERE STORIES MEET is both history and commentary. Vivid accounts of the early and middle years of North America's longest running Aboriginal theatre, Be-ba-jeh-mu-jig, when the resourcefulness of the founding members was challenged to the limit, intermix with incisive views on the place of Aboriginal theatre in the Canadian mainstream today.
Title: Where the Blood Mixes
Author: Loring, Kevin Publisher: Talonbooks 2009
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roy dramatic comedy - Native peoples - British - Native playwright⌦five characters; chorus; musician three male; two female⌦one act Can a person survive their past; can a people survive their history? Irreverently funny and brutally honest, "Where the Blood Mixes" is a story about loss and redemption. Caught in a shadowy pool of alcoholic pain and guilt, Floyd is a man who has lost everyone he holds most dear. Now after more than two decades, his daughter Christine returns home to confront her father. Set during the salmon run, "Where the Blood Mixes" takes us to the bottom of the river, to the heart of a People.
Winner! 2009 Governor General's Drama Award. Winner! 2009 Jessie Richardson Award for Outstanding Original Script. Winner! 2009 Sydney Risk Prize for Outstanding Original Script by an Emerging Playwright. Title: Wihio's Duck Dance in - Pushing Up the Sky / CHC Author: Bruchac, Joseph Publisher: Penguin Books 2000
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non-roy children - Native peoples - folk tales - Cheyenne large cast flexible casting (ten or more children) one act
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Title: Windigo, The
Author: Foon, Dennis Publisher: Talonbooks 1978
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roy folklore - Canadian - drama - Native peoples nine characters flexible casting one act
suitable for grades 4-5 and up.
"Based on Ojibway belief, THE WINDIGO is about a hunter's confrontation with the Hunger Spirit."
Title: Windigo, The
Author: Foon, Dennis Publisher: Talonbooks 1978
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roy folklore - Canadian - drama - Native peoples nine characters flexible casting one act
suitable for grades 4-5 and up.
"Based on Ojibway belief, THE WINDIGO is about a hunter's confrontation with the Hunger Spirit." Title: Winnetou's Snake Oil Show from Wigwam City in - Canadian Theatre Review No. 68, Fall 1991 / PER Author: Spiderwoman Theatre Publisher: Miscellaneous 1991
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roy parody - Native peoples - Native playwright all female cast; twenty-one characters four female (doubling) one act
'Spiderwoman Theatre from New York parodies the appropriation of Native spirituality by contemporary Plastic Shamans.'
Title: Winnetou's Snake Oil Show from Wigwam City in - Keepers of the Morning Star / COL Author: Mayo, Lisa Miguel, Gloria Publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2003
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roy comedy - native playwright - spirituality - native peoples many characters three female (doubling) one act
Also written by Muriel Miguel and Hortensia Colorado as part of Spiderwoman Theatre; running time - approx. 80 mins.
Winnetou's Snake Oil Show from Wigwam City is loosely based on the fictional Apache character Winnetou and his close friend Old Shatterhand, made famous by nineteenth century German author, Karl May. Spiderwoman Theater satirizes the stereotypes perpetuated by authors like May
Title: Woman Who Was a Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance, The in - Keepers of the Morning Star / COL Author: Glancy, Diane Publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center 2003
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roy drama - Native peoples - native playwrights - women - spirituality all female cast; two characters two female one act
The play is a dialogue / monologue between a grandmother and her granddaughter, both arguing against the other for her own way of life. The grandmother talks about stories and the Spirits and the red deer dress she has made to feel more in tune with Ahw'uste, a mythological spirit deer. The granddaughter talks about the problems of a contemporary life, including her experiences with several men. The grandmother continues talking about Ahw'uste and the Spirits, who in the end, she realizes, let her down. The granddaughter says she has to look for work, which she can't Title: Woods, The in - The Mill / CCO Author: Beagan, Tara Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2011
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roy drama - Canadian - Native peoples⌦eight characters; extras five male; three female one act
The mill does not yet exist in "The Woods", and the land is the site of a First Nations burial ground. The interactions between the First Nations people and the first settlers put the wheel in motion for the terror that will haunt this area for hundreds of years to come. roy drama - Canadian - Alberta playwright eight characters; extras
Title: Words on a Page in - In Character / CCO Author: Leckie, Keith Publisher: Nelson Canada 1992
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roy Canadian - Native peoples - drama eight characters; extras four male; four female television play
"Writers use dramatic conflict to develop and reveal their characters. Lenore's father has forbidden Lenore to do something she very much wants to do. How they deal with and overcome this strong difference of opinion is the basis of this teleplay. 'Words on a Page' is an episode from 'Spirit Bay,' a teleplay drama series about a Native community in Canada's North."
Title: Yukonstyle
Author: Berthiaume, Sarah translated by Nadine Desrochers Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press 2014
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roy Canadian - drama - Native peoples - racism - family relations six characters two male; two female (doubling) one act (fourteen scenes)
Garin was two years old when his mother disappeared from a rundown East Vancouver neighbourhood. Now that the Robert Pickton trials are gaining national attention, Garin wonders if his mother, a First Nations woman, could be one of the unidentified victims. His ailing father isn't forthcoming with answers, and Garin's suspicions are at an all-time high. In the midst of all this, his roommate Yuko has taken in Kate, a young pregnant hitchhiker who unintentionally wreaks havoc on their friendship. But when Garin's father is hospitalized, nothing else matters but