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Drew Hayden Taylor
Elmore Trent is a professor of Indigenous studies who finds himself entangled in an affair that's ruining his marriage; Paul North plays in the IHL (Indigenous Hockey League), struggling to…
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The image of an incredibly beautiful horse, drawn by a small, fragile girl on the reserve, haunts Ralph into adulthood, until he encounters it a second time and is moved…
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A highly wrought farce of patrimony among fancy dancers on the powwow trail. Cast of 3 women and 3 men.
Native activists and environmentally concerned vegetarians clash over moose roast and vegetarian lasagna. Cast of 3 women and 3 men.
Two plays about the process of becoming an adult and the necessity for rites of passage in all cultures.
The third play in Taylor’s farcical examination of Native and non-Native stereotypes. Cast of 3 women and 3 men.
The third play in Taylor’s hilarious and heart-wrenching identity-politics trilogy. Cast of 3 women and 2 men.
A dilemma results when a man is asked to donate a kidney to his dying father. Cast of 2 men.
German developers propose a Native theme park for the Otter Lake Reserve. Cast of 3 women and 3 men.
These stories challenge cliches of interracial and intercultural relations, all with the emotional empathy of a master storyteller.
Exotic postcards from playwright, novelist and screenwriter Drew Hayden Taylor’s globetrotting adventures, with news about aboriginal peoples around the world.
A funny yet thought-provoking play about identity politics in which Pocahontas, Tonto, and other native characters rewrite their stereotyped roles.
I’ve spent too many years explaining who and what I am repeatedly, so as of this moment I officially secede from both races. I plan to start my own separate…
Someday is a powerful play by award-winning playwright Drew Hayden Taylor. The story in Someday, though told through fictional characters and full of Taylor’s distinctive wit and humour, is based…
There are a few questions that professional artists get asked regularly: Where do you get your ideas? How did you get started? And be honest-are you really in it for…
Bobby Rabbit convinces his friend to accompany him on a sojourn of justice, or more plainly, to assist him in digging up Sir John A. Macdonald’s bones to hold for…
Questions the impact of Indian boarding schools on former students sent for Christian reform and the clergy assigned the task.
The emotional struggle of an adopted Native woman to acknowledge her birth family. Cast of 2 women and 2 men.
A forgotten Haudenosaunee social song beams into the cosmos like a homing beacon for interstellar visitors. A computer learns to feel sadness and grief from the history of atrocities committed…
A middle-aged Cree couple reflect on their life together while vacationing for the first time. A funny, touching, surprising play.
An Anishnawbe man, Arthur Copper, decides to repopulate the lakes of his home Territory with manoomin, or wild rice - much to the disapproval of the local non-Indigenous cottagers, in…
First Nations, Metis and Inuit artists, activists, educators and writers, youth and elders come together to envision Indigenous futures in Canada and around the world.
Discussing everything from language renewal…
A band with nowhere to go ends up in the last place they wanted to be.
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In these two plays, Taylor delves into the past and speculates about the future as he examines the dilemmas facing young Native Canadians. This is a magical portrayal of a…
Richard Wagamese
A new curated collection of Richard Wagamese’s short writings.
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A troubled teenager’s life on a reservation is complicated when her father rents her room to an ancient vampire, newly returned to his tribal home from Europe. A blending of…
