On an Indian reserve (or "Rez"), the men band together to protest an all-girl hockey team. The men on the Rez see this encroachment of women as another assault on their identity, and the play touches on what aboriginal identity means. Dry Lips is full of conflict – of Native spirituality with Christianity, of men with women, of one business plan with another. But the violence and anger are presented initially as farce.
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1989, Native Earth Performing Arts & Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto
1989, 2010
Fifth House Publishers
9780920079553, 9781897252833
Realistic
Stetko is the model boy next door and the son of middle-class parents, but when war arrives it forever changes his life. Although he does nothing more than follow his commanding officer's orders, when the war is over he stands accused of terrible crimes. A profoundly affecting two-person drama that reminds us of the faceless horror of war, and of the guilt which whole nations must carry on their shoulders. Wagner's play goes to the heart of man's inhumanity in war time.
Realistic
Weaving poetic drama with myriad documentary sources, A Line in the Sand rips the benevolent mask off recent western peacekeeping operations and challenges Canada’s long treasured national mythology that it is a nation of quiet diplomats. It asks us to imagine how horrors like these could be perpetrated with our money, in our name and by people much like us.
