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Drama Canadian

Las Comadres de la Rez

The Rez Sisters in Spanish

by (author) Tomson Highway

translated by Pilar Somacarrera

Publisher
Fitzhenry and Whiteside
Initial publish date
Apr 2014
Category
Canadian, Native American & Aboriginal
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781927083031
    Publish Date
    Apr 2014
    List Price
    $16.95

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Tomson Highway's classic drama now available in a Spanish language translation.
The Rez Sisters is Tomson Highway's classic two act play, first performed in 1986. It focuses on the hopes and dreams of a group of seven women on the Wasaychigan Hill Indian reserve. This play has been published in English and Cree and will now be available in a new Spanish edition.

About the authors

Tomson Highway was born near Maria Lake, Manitoba in 1951. His father, Joe, was a hunter, fisherman and sled-dog racer, and his family lived a nomadic lifestyle. With no access to books, television or radio, Highway’s parents would tell their children stories; thus began Highway’s life-long interest in the oral tradition of storytelling. When he was six, Highway was taken from his family and placed in residential school in The Pas; he subsequently went to high school in Winnipeg and then travelled to London to study at the University of Western Ontario, earning a music degree in 1975 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976. Instead of becoming a professional concert musician as he had at one point contemplated, however, Highway decided instead to dedicate his life to the service of his people. Fluent in Cree, English and French, he was for six years the artistic director of Native Earth Performing Arts, the first and most enduring Native professional company in Canada which he also helped found. From 1975 to 1978 Highway worked as a cultural worker for the Native Peoples’ Resource Centre. He has worked for the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship and Culture and also for the Ontario Federation of Indian Friendship Centres as a program analyst. From 1983 to 1985 he worked as a freelance theatre artist before becoming the artistic director of the De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Company in 1986. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of Toronto, University of British Columbia, and Concordia University. Tomson Highway is widely recognized for his tremendous contribution to the development of Aboriginal theatre in both Canada and around the world. In 1994, he was inducted into the Order of Canada, the first Aboriginal writer to be so honoured.

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