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MARCIE RENDON (1952 - ) |
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Nationality: Anishinabe Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: n/a |
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Plays by Marcie Rendon |
Bring the Children Home | ||
| 1st Produced: | Pillsbury House Theater; Mpls., MN | 1996 | ||||
Company: | Child's Play Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | Footpaths & Bridges: Voices from the Native American Women Playwrights archive; edited by Shirley Huston-Findley & Rebecca Howard; University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor,, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85355 | |||
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Genre: | Native American; contemporary; children's | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | Crow & Eagle - spirits present throughout play; Windigo - spirit symbolizing decay/cannibalism of western society; Chorus of youth | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Play is set in the present. It is a modern-day Native American myth about the importance of 'naming ceremony' and young peoples need for responsible family. As writer, it is my hope that with the exception of the Grandmother, Matilda and Maigun, all other characters could be played by either male or female. The chorus (which could be many or few) from the porch is hip hop/rap. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Free Frybread | ||
| 1st Produced: | Bryant Lake Bowl Theater, Minneapolis Fringe Festival | 1999 | ||||
Company: | Raving Native Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85356 | |||
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Genre: | Native American; humor | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Just what can you do on stage with a beaded leather thong bikini? From the Loring Park fringe festival to the Bryant-Lake Bowl, raving Natives Productions bring you the "free frybread telethon." The free frybread telethon is an evening of song, dance and performance art where nationally-known and locally-grown native talent ignite the stage for an hour-and-a-half. You join the performance by becoming a member of the telethon studio audience, watching the volunteer telephone operators take pledges to free frybread and laughing along with the telethon's host and guest performers. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Friends | ||
| 1st Produced: | Patrick's Cabaret; Minneapolis | 2007 | ||||
Company: | Raving Native Productions | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85357 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | humor; Native American Ten Min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Winner of 2008 Native American Radio Award and will be published in an anthology on modern and contemporary dramatic explorations of motherhood, to be edited by: Sheila Rabillard, University of Victoria and Karen Bamford, Mount Allison University | |||||
Synopsis: | A grandmother, mother and granddaughter discuss the meaning of the little things in life - relationships, family and lice. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Predator/Prey | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Playwright Center, Minneapolis, MN. | 2004 | ||||
Company: | OffLeash Area | |||||
| 1st Published: | Excerpted as: a very common, very untraditional tale. . .Yellow Medicine Review; Southwest Minnesota State Universtiy, Marshall, MN, Winter 2007 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85358 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Dance/movement | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | Crows - wolves - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | A very common, very untraditional tale about urban vs nature - greed vs balance. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Rough-Face Girl | ||
| 1st Produced: | Imagination Stage, Bethesda, MD | 2001 | ||||
Company: | The American Indian Repertory Theatre | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85359 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Native American; children's; traditional story | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | http://aireptheatre.org | |||||
Synopsis: | Based on an old Micmac legend, Rough-Face Girl is the story of a young Micmac woman who in the midst of family conflict and hardship sees the beauty in the world around her. Three sisters are attempting to survive after their father's death. The two older sisters are angry and mean, mistreating their youngest sister, Dos. In an attempt to escape their plight, the two older sisters set off to marry the Invisible One. Only the woman who can truly see him will marry him. The Invisible One is guarded by his Sister, whose job it is to determine which woman really is capable of seeing him. After the two older sisters fail in their attempt to see him, Dos sets out on her own quest to marry him, with her sister's taunting her all the way. Along the way, Dos helps them heal from the grief of their father's death. Dos sees beauty all around her and consequently is able to see the Invisible One and marry him. Rather than reject her family she insures that they too will share in the goodness of her life. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Sacajawea | ||
| 1st Produced: | Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre, Fargo North, Dakota | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85360 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Native American; children; historical, 60 min | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 17 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Sacajawea's story told from her perspective as a young Shoshone woman trying to return home. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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SongCatcher: Native perspective of the life of Frances Densmore, | ||
| 1st Produced: | Great American History Theatre, St. Paul, MN | 1998 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Keepers of the Morning Star: An Anthology of Native Women's Theater; UCLA American Indian Studies Center; Los Angeles, California, 2003 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85361 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Native American; contemporary drama based on historical fact | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 10 | ||
Parts other: | doubling possible | |||||
Notes: | Full-length play written so that two worlds - the contemporary world and the spirit world - exist simultaneously on stage. | |||||
Synopsis: | A young Native couple are living together in an apartment. Jack, who was raised to go to school and work instead of immersed in the culture, is easy-going, and is more interested in singing at the pow-wow drum than holding a job. He is actively searching for his Native heritage through the drum and is convinced that "his song" is in Frances Densmore's book. His girlfriend, Chris, works to support both of them, hauling garbage, and is often tired and crabby. She get's short-tempered with Jack's obsession with the drum and Frances Densmore. Spirit Woman tries to give Jack his song, but he is certain what he is looking for is in Frances' book. As he searches harder and harder, Frances, her family, Lizzie, Old Man Spirit and Spirit Woman literally take over Chris and Jack's apartment - as spirits and in dreams. When Jack dreams he is Geronimo and Frances stole his soul at the World's Fair, Jack becomes depressed and morose. Chris asks Bill to perform a healing ceremony for them. During the ceremony we see Frances recording Main'gans' songs and the tragic consequence he paid. Jack receives his song from Spirit Woman and their apartment is cleared of spirits. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Urban Rez | ||
| 1st Produced: | Staged Reading: American Indian Community House Theater, NYC, NY | 2006 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #85362 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Movement based poetry performance piece about young modern native people in the urban rez | |||||
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