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The Rez Sisters: A Play in Two Acts

by Tomson Highway · 1988

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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.

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The Rez Sistersis hilarious, shocking, mystical and powerful, and clearly establishes the creative voice of Native theatre and writing in Canada today.

Genre
literary fictionhumor
Themes
theatre
Setting
1980sCanadacollege
Audience
adult
Length
short · 118 pages
Form
plays

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