The Rez Sisters: A Play in Two Acts
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ISBN: 092007944X / Publisher: Fifth House Publishers, December 1992
Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play Nominated for the Governor General's Award This award-winning play by Native playwright Tomson Highway is a powerful and moving portrayal of seven women from a reserve attempting to beat the odds by winning at bingo. And not just any bingo. It is THE BIGGEST BINGO IN THE WORLD and a chance to win a way out of a tortured life. The Rez Sisters is hilarious, shocking, mystical and powerful, and clearly establishes the creative voice of Native theatre and writing in Canada today.
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<p> Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play </p><p> Nominated for the Governor General's Award </p><p> This award-winning play by Native playwright Tomson Highway is a powerful and moving portrayal of seven women from a reserve attempting to beat the odds by winning at bingo. And not just any bingo. It is THE BIGGEST BINGO IN THE WORLD and a chance to win a way out of a tortured life. </p><p> <i>The Rez Sisters</i> is hilarious, shocking, mystical and powerful, and clearly establishes the creative voice of Native theatre and writing in Canada today. </p>
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