A Very Polite Genocide or The Girl Who Fell to Earth

By Melanie J. Murray

A dense play with complicated threads: a young woman’s sense of identity is buried under the scar tissue of the residential school system. A chance encounter with a photograph exposes the legacy that binds her to her family and its ghosts.

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2008, Native Earth, Toronto

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2018

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Playwrights Canada Press

ISBN

978-1-77091-914-3

Included in Indian Acts: Residential School Plays, edited by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard (said book won the Patrick O'Neill Award in 2019)

Included in Indian Acts: Residential School Plays, edited by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard (said book won the Patrick O'Neill Award in 2019)

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