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A Study Guide for Tomson Highway's "The Rez Sisters," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.
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A Study Guide for Tomson Highway's "The Rez Sisters" - Gale
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The Rez Sisters
Tomson Highway
1986
Introduction
When The Rez Sisters was first performed in 1986, Canadian and American audiences took note of this new and offbeat play by Native North American playwright Tomson Highway. A Cree Native of Manitoba, Canada, Highway wanted to make life on the reservation (or ‘the rez’) seem cool
and show and celebrate what funky folk Canada’s Indian people really are.
His goals were met with this play, which received high praise (winning the Dora Mavor Award for best new play in Toronto’s 1986-87 theater season and being named a runner-up for the Floyd F. Chalmers Award for the outstanding Canadian play of 1986). The Rez Sisters also proved to be a commercial success, playing to sold-out audiences during a cross-Canada tour from October to February of 1988. Audiences found Highway’s portrait of seven rez sisters
to be, as William Peel called them in Canadian Theatre Review, a striking cast of characters who reveal both blemishes and beauty
and who possess, on the whole, great human dignity.
The play spans a summer in 1986, when seven women (all related by birth or marriage) decide to travel to Toronto to participate in THE BIGGEST BINGO IN THE WORLD.
Each woman offers the audience a different attitude toward life on the reservation—as well as their individual dreams of escaping it. From Pelajia Patchnose, who hopes to win enough money to bring paved roads to Wasy
(their reservation), to Emily Dictionary, an ex-biker whose rough-and-ready outlook creates some friction in the group, these characters display the natural desire to rise above their surroundings and create a better world for their children and each
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