Birdwoman and the Suffragettes: A Story of Sacajawea is a radio play developed for CBC’s “Vanishing Point.” Its theme is appropriation. In 14 scenes Mojica describes non-Native men and women who made monetary and ideological profit from the Native woman Sacajawea. The play tells “a story of Sacajawea . . . whoever she may have been.” Each scene pivots around this woman, and the resulting layers comprise a rich timbre; the voices of those people affected by Sacajawea’s experience supplement her own poetic narration.
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1991
Women's Press
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Included in "Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots", a three play anthology of Monique Mojica's work.
Included in "Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots", a three play anthology of Monique Mojica's work.
Plays with Music
Never the Last shines a spotlight on the fascinating composer from the last century, Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Grammatté— whose work was almost lost in the male-dominated classical music field, until she immigrated to Canada. Never the Last follows Sophie and her passionate relationship with the expressionist painter Walter Grammatté. The couple’s 10 years of marriage is marked by adventure, poverty, artistic strife and tragedy.
Realistic
When a lifelong New Yorker faces the loss of her Cuban-born mother and her own sense of identity in the process, she digs into her legacy and uncovers the story of her mother's beloved aunt, her own tia-abuela whom she never met. While the family fled Cuba at the time of Castro's revolution, she remained on the island for the love of another Woman—a complicated choice in a less forgiving time.
