A young Metis lawyer returns with his non-Indigenous fiancé to his reserve in rural Saskatchewan for an idyllic long weekend. Instead he is faced with challenges to his law practice, his relationship with his father and other band members as well as with his girlfriend. The stakes are raised when he is accused by game wardens of poaching deer. Creates a portrait of a community not often seen on Canadian stages.
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contains monologues
contains scenes
2007, Theatre Projects, Winnipeg & Root Sky Productions, Brandon, Manitoba
2008
Scirocco Books
978-1897289-26-6
winner Canadian National Playwriting Competition.
winner Canadian National Playwriting Competition.
Realistic
A struggling blues band is invited to play a benefit concert for an Indigenous community in conflict with the government. By the time they get to the reserve all musical acts are cancelled and they are trapped behind the barricades.
Realistic
Comedy about Indigenous identity politics. In Act One, 6 Indigenous stereotypes including Tonto, Injun Joe and Pocahontas find themselves trapped in a room with a dead white writer. None of them can figure out how he died or which one of them killed him. As they accuse one another, they discover how unhappy they are with the versions of their lives constructed over the past 400 years. In Act Two, they are transformed into modern Indigenous people attending an AA Meeting once again with a dead white man in their midst
