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.