The Toronto Star, 1987
One of the most touching, exuberant, cleverly crafted, and utterly entrancing plays.
About the Author
Tomson Highway is one of the most distinctive playwrights to come along in years. His plays explore the contemporary Indian in dominant white society, and the results are both exciting and challenging. Highway was born on his father's trap-line in northern Canada. His father was a trapper, fisherman, and legendary dogsled racer. Trained as a concert pianist, Tomson turned to playwriting as a way to portray the lives and times of Native people. His award-winning plays have been produced throughout the United States and Canada and around the world, and his works are studied extensively at universities everywhere. Also by Tomson Highway, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing (ISBN 0920079555).
The Rez Sisters FROM THE PUBLISHER
The Rez Sisters was the winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award (Toronto's theater awards) for Best New Play and was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Drama.
This award-winning play by Native-Canadian playwright Tomson Highway is a powerful and moving portrayal of seven women from a reserve attempting to beat the odds by winning at bingo. The Rez Sisters is hilarious, shocking, mystical, and powerful, and clearly establishes the creative voice of Native theater and writing in Canada.
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