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DREW HAYDEN TAYLOR |
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Nationality: Canadian Email: n/a Website: Click here to visit |
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Literary Agent: Aurora Artists |
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Plays by Drew Hayden Taylor |
400 Kilometres | ||
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| 1st Published: | Talon Books, | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889225176 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #78331 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
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| The third play to feature Janice Wirth. She is pregnant and her adoptive parents have retired and are going to sell the family home and move to England. The father of her unborn child wants it to be brought up as a Native Canadian and with its own people. | |||||
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alterNatives | ||
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| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889224285 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34076 | |||
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| A very liberal contemporary couple-Angel, an urban Native science fiction writer; and Colleen, a "non-practicing" Jewish intellectual who teaches Native literature-have a dinner party. The guests at this little "sitcom" soiree are couples that represent what by now have become the cliched extremes of both societies-Angel's former radical Native activist buddies; and Colleen's environmentally concerned vegetarian / veterinarian friends. The menu is, of course, the hosts' respectful attempt at shorthand for the irreconcilable cultural differences about to come to a head during the evening: moose roast and vegetarian lasagna. Both the diametrically opposed vehemence (one anonymous caller to the Firehall Theatre uttered bomb threats after labeling it "senseless white bashing"); and the inappropriateness (the Vancouver Sun theatre critic said, "It's all too Earnest for me."); of the responses of the amateur and professional critics to the Vancouver performances are testimony to the power of the pain, frustration | |||||
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Baby Blues, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 1999 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889224063 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34077 | |||
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Genre: | Farce | |||||
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| The Baby Blues is Drew Hayden Taylor's highly wrought farce of patrimony in a stifling, politically correct, post-colonial milieu of "fancy dancers" of every stripe on the Pow wow trail. In juxtaposing three generations of careless wandering hedonists, progenitors of a string of offspring from their six-night stands, with their erstwhile naive women partners who are always left holding the bag, the "big questions" of heritage, family, cultural context and personal identity are ruthlessly stripped of their conventional meanings and become so much useless, embarrassing roadkill on the highway of life. How, for example, is a young anthropology student who has just discovered she is 1/64 native, to behave appropriately and meaningfully in her "other" cultural context? Could it really be true that at the core of all the new-age syncretism of the 20th Century lies a cultural relativism so laughably barren that a gift of whitewall tires can ever offer the possibility of healing a twenty-year relationship of careless | |||||
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Bootlegger Blues, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0920079799 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34078 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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| A fifty something regular church goer finds herself in possession of 143 cases of beer to sell for church funds | |||||
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Boy In The Treehouse, The | ||
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| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889224414 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34079 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 1 | ||
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| Simon is of mixed parentage. When one parent dies he is torn as to which world he lives in | |||||
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Buz'Gem Blues | ||
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| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 2002 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889224629 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34080 | |||
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Notes: | The Buz'Gem Blues is the third play in Drew Hayden Taylor's ongoing zany, outrageous, often farcical examination of both Native and non-Native stereotypes in what is to become what he calls his "Blues Quartet | |||||
| Marianne has talked her mother, Martha, into attending an Elders conference with her, where she is to be used as a resource person, even though Martha doesn't believe she has anything to offer anyone. Held in a college setting, the keynote paper of the conference is a dissertation on "the courting, love, and sexual habits of contemporary First Nations people as perceived by Western Society," delivered by none other than a "Professor Savage." Just to keep the caricatures in balance, Savage's nemesis throughout the action is a young Native man, replete with dark sunglasses and a Mountie coat, "The Warrior Who Never Sleeps." As absurdly claustrophobic as Gilligan's Island (the Professor and Marianne become an item), Taylor is pulling some of our most revered icons-European anthropologists, their Native Elder informants and their militant young warrior critics-off their pedestals, looking for a place to ground them in a world where the most politically correct ethnic representation is a young woman, 1/64th Nativ | |||||
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Contemporary Gothic Indian Vampire Story, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1992 | ||||
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| 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 | #86540 | |||
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Education is Our Right | ||
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| 1st Published: | Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #39901 | |||
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Genre: | One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 4 | ||
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Synopsis: | Indian spirits attempt to show the Minister of Education the error of his ways when funding for Native Americans is cut. | |||||
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Fearless Warriorrs | ||
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| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889223950 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34081 | |||
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Girl Who Loved Her Horses | ||
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| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 2000 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889224414 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34082 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 2 | ||
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God and the Indian | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2008 | ||||
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| 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 | #86541 | |||
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In A World Created By A Drunken God | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2004 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Talon Books, 2006 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889225374 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #86542 | |||
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| Jason, 31 a Candia half-Native is visited by his white half brother. Jason's white father whom he never knew is dying unless he has a kidney transplant and they want to see if Jason is compatible. | |||||
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Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth | ||
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| 1st Published: | Talon Books, Vancouver, BC, 1998 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-0889223844 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34083 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 2 | ||
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| Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth is 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 | |||||
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Raven Stole The Sun | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2004 | ||||
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| 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 | #86543 | |||
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Someday | ||
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| 1st Published: | Fifth House Publishers 1993 | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1895618105 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34084 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 3 | ||
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| Anne has her child taken away by social workers. Christmas time thirty five years on and she still is desperate to see her daughter | |||||
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Spirit Horse | ||
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| 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 | #114759 | |||
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Genre: | Youth play | |||||
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Notes: | Based on "Tir Na N'Og" by Greg Banks | |||||
Synopsis: | Two city children receive a gift from their father who lives on the prairies - a spirit horse | |||||
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Sucker Falls | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2001 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Playwrights Guild of Canada | ISBN/ASIN: | 978-1552901762 | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #86544 | |||
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| Parts: | Male | 5 | Female | 3 | ||
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Synopsis: | A family open a casino on an Indian reserve | |||||
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Talking Pictures | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1990 | ||||
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| 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 | #86545 | |||
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Toronto at Dreamer's Rock | ||
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| 1st Published: | Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1990 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #34085 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy Drama One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | A teenage Native American boy encounters a member of his tribe from 400 years ago and one from 100 years in the future | |||||
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