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category: Drama
published: Aug 2009
ISBN:9780887548970
publisher: Playwrights Canada Press

Almighty Voice and His Wife

by Daniel David Moses, introduction by Yvette Nolan

tagged: canadian, native american studies
Description

A young couple woo and wed, but they're Cree and it's 1895, the first generation after the Riel Rebellion, and it's suddenly hard for the people who followed the buffalo to live happily ever after. What are they going to do? It's still a bit early to go into show business.

Almighty Voice and His Wife shakes up a familiar story from the Saskatchewan frontier, reimagining it from the postmodern late twentieth century. The "renegade Indian story" transforms into both an eloquent tale of tragic love and an often hilarious, fully theatrical exorcism of the hurts of history. A modern classic about the place of First Nations people in Canada.

About the Authors

Daniel David Moses


Yvette Nolan

p>Yvette Nolan (Algonquin) is a playwright, director and dramaturg. Her works include the plays The Unplugging, The Art of War, Annie Mae's Movement, The Birds (a modern adaptation of Aristophanes' comedy), the dance-opera Bearing, the libretto Shawnadithit, the short play-for-film Katharsis, and the VR piece Reconciling for Boca del Lupo. She co-created, with Joel Bernbaum and Lancelot Knight, the verbatim play Reasonable Doubt, about relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities in Saskatchewan. From 2003-2011, she served as the Artistic Director of Native Earth Performing Arts. Her book, Medicine Shows, about Indigenous performance in Canada, was published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2015, and Performing Indigeneity (co-edited with Ric Knowles) in 2016. Born in Prince Albert, grown up in Winnipeg, Yvette has lived all over this land, from Nova Scotia to the Yukon.

Editorial Reviews

"…one of the few plays firmly considered as part of the canon of great Canadian drama…"

— Christopher Hoile, EYE Weekly

"By its end, the poetic, imaginative Almighty Voice and His Wife has turned into a one-ring circus. And that's a good thing."

— Jon Kaplan, NOW Magazine

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