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Synopsis: 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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Talon Books, Vancouver, BC

2000

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Synopsis: 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" soirée are couples that represent what by now have become the clichéd 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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Talon Books, Vancouver, BC

1999

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Synopsis: 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 naïve 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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Saskatoon: Fifth House

1991

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Talon Books, Vancouver, BC

2000

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Talon Books, Vancouver, BC

2002

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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

Synopsis: 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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1992

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Saskatoon: Fifth House

1990

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Talon Books, Vancouver, BC

1998

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Talon Books, Vancouver, BC

2000

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2008

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I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Talon Books

2006

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Synopsis: 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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Talon Books, Vancouver, BC

1998

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Synopsis: 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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Beyond the Pale: Dramatic Writing from First Nations Writers and Writers of Colour. Eds. Yvette Nolan, Betty Quan, and George Bwanika Seremba. Toronto: Playwrights Canada

1996

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2001

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Saskatoon: Fifth House

1990

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