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Baby Blues
Baby Blues
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Author: Drew Hayden Taylor Publisher: Talonbooks Format: Softcover # of Pages: 93 Pub. Date: 1999 ISBN-10: 0889224064 ISBN-13: 9780889224063
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About the Play:
The Baby Blues is Drew Hayden Taylor's highly wrought farce of patrimony in a stifling, politically correct, post-colonial milieu of fancy dancers of every stripe on the pow wow trail. In juxtaposing three generations of careless wandering hedonists, progenitors of a string of offspring from their six-night stands, with their erstwhile naive women partners who are always left holding the bag, the big questions of heritage, family, cultural context and personal identity are ruthlessly stripped of their conventional meanings and become so much useless, embarrassing roadkill on the highway of life.
Cast: 3 women, 3 men.
What people say:
"Drew Hayden Taylor sets up a simple premise with hilarious results… social satire extending far beyond just sex, largely it looks at stereotypes in general and laughs at them… there are so many laughs injected into this play that it is great fun overall. Taylor has a good feel for dialogue, and it reads very smoothly wight he characters really coming to life. Relax, kick your feet up, and enjoy The Baby Blues." — James Horner, Canadian Content
"Taylor's goal in this play is to showcase the Native sense of humour, which he succeeds at doing… It's a Native soap opera but with a sense of humour… with all the negative stories in the mainstream press about Aboriginal people, Taylor does a great service by writing a humorous play." — Kim Ziervogel, Windspeaker
"Taylor's First Nations voice is sardonic, self-referential, and humourous… It's a merry-go-round worthy of any multi-doored British sex farce. Taylor is beautifully at home with his Native situation and caps the hilarity by including a character named Summer… Taylor's take on the situation is wicked and clever." — Ian C. Nelson, CBRA 2000 – Literature and Language
About the Playwright:
Drew Hayden Taylor is an Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations in Ontario. A writer of many disciplines, he has produced work for television, movies, theatre, short stories, commentaries, and essays. He has also taught workshops in scriptwriting and playwriting for Native people and visible minorities. |
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