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category: Drama
published: Sep 2013
ISBN:9781770911345
publisher: Playwrights Canada Press

The Unplugging

by Yvette Nolan

tagged: canadian, women authors
Description

In a post-apocalyptic world, Bern and Elena are exiled from their village. Their crime? The two women are no longer of child-bearing age.

Forced to rely upon traditional wisdom for their survival, Elena and Bern retreat from the remains of civilization to a freezing, desolate landscape where they attempt to continue their lives after the end of the world. When a charismatic stranger from the village arrives seeking their aid, the women must decide whether they will use their knowledge of the past to give the society that rejected them the chance at a future.

About the Author

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.

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