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Almighty Voice and His Wife
Almighty Voice and His Wife
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Author: Daniel David Moses Publisher: Playwrights Canada Press Format: Softcover # of Pages: 56 Pub. Date: 2006 Edition: Second Scene ISBN-10: 0887548970 ISBN-13: 9780887548970 Cast Size: 1 female, 1 male
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About the Play:
Almighty Voice and His Wife is a full-length drama by
Daniel David Moses. Almighty Voice is based on a historical
figure, a young Cree who was jailed by the North-West Mounted Police
in 1895 for slaughtering a government cow for his wedding party.
Under threat of hanging he escapes, unleashing a year-long manhunt
that gives rise to his status as both accidental martyr and icon.
Almighty Voice and His Wife tells the
tale of a young Cree couple. They are blissfully in love and wish to
marry. The groom is the historically significant Almighty Voice, a
Cree from the One Arrow First Nation in Saskatchewan. The cow he has
procured for the feast is stolen. He is arrested
and the penalty for killing a cow without a licence is death. His
escape leads
to the longest man hunt by the Northwest Mounted Police in
Saskatchewan's history. What are they going to do? It's still a bit
early to go into show business. One of the great plays of
Canadian theatre, Almighty Voice and His Wife
reimagines this true story from the Saskatchewan frontier within two
wildly different acts, moving from an eloquent tale of tragic love to
a hilarious post-modern vaudeville act, making it a modern classic
about the place of First Nations people in Canada.
Almighty Voice and His Wife had its triumphant debut in
1991 at Ottawa's Great Canadian Theatre Company, followed by a run in
1992 at Native Earth in Toronto. The play was revived by Native Earth
Performing Arts in 2009, and received a positive critical reception
in the Origins Festival in London, England. In 2010 it successfully
toured to acclaimed audiences across Canada and is continues to widely taught in university and college theatre departments.
Cast: 1 female, 1 male
What people say:
"One of the few plays firmly
considered as part of the canon of great Canadian drama...."
— EYE Weekly
"...moving,
disturbing, funny, confounding and beautiful...." —
The Coast
(Halifax)
"Moses is a coroner of the
theatre who slices open the human heart to reveal the fear, hatred
and love that have eaten away at it." — The Globe
and Mail
About the Playwright:
Daniel David Moses is a Canadian Aboriginal poet,
playwright, editor, and teacher. One of Canada's foremost First
Nations writers, he grew up on the Six Nations community south of
Brantford, Ontario, on the Grand River. He teaches playwriting in the
Department of Drama at Queen's University in Kingston.
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