Rez Sisters / Edition 1

by Tomson Highway

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900920079446
Publication date:	12/15/1992
Pages:	118
Product dimensions:	5.57(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

Tomson Highway is a celebrated playwright, novelist, and children's author. He is the author of the earlier picture books in the Songs of the North Wind trilogy, Fox on the Ice and Caribou Song. He is also the author of the plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, both of which won him the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Floyd S. Chalmers Award. He lives in the Ottawa area.