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The Baby Blues
The Baby Blues
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Author: Drew Hayden Taylor Publisher: Talonbooks (cover image may change) Format: Softcover # of Pages: 93 Pub. Date: 1999 ISBN-10: 0889224064 ISBN-13: 9780889224063 Cast Size: 3 female, 3 male
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About the Play:
The Baby Blues is a
full-length comedy
by Drew Hayden Taylor.
Noble, an aging fancy dancer, finds himself at a pow wow where the
sins of his youth catch up with him and force him to re-evaluate his
life. A
sequel to The Bootlegger Blues.
The Baby Blues is a highly wrought farce of patrimony in a
stifling, politically correct, post-colonial milieu of fancy
dancers of every stripe on the pow wow trail. Noble is an
Indigenous dancer who spends his summers on the powwow circuit,
drinking beer, picking up women and winning prizes, although his
38-year-old body is complaining more and more about the physical
effort required. 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.
The Baby Blues premiered in 1996 at Arbor Theatre in Peterborough, Ontario. Since
then the play has been successfully staged at several professional
theatres in Canada and the US. Though it stands on it's own, The Bootlegger Blues
is the second
play (following Bootlegger Blues) in what Drew Hayden
Taylor calls his Blues
Quartet.
Cast: 3 female, 3 male
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 one of Canada's best known and most
prolific Indigenous writers. An Ojibway born on Curve Lake First
Nation near Peterborough, Ontario, he has worn many hats in his
literary career, from performing stand-up comedy at the Kennedy
Center in Washington D.C., to being Artistic Director of Canada's
premiere Aboriginal theatre company, Native Earth Performing Arts. He
has been an award-winning playwright (with productions of his work in
Canada, the US, and Europe), a journalist/columnist (appearing
regularly in several Canadian newspapers and magazines), short-story
writer, novelist, television scriptwriter, and documentary filmmaker.
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