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The Baby Blues

The Baby Blues
Your Price: $18.95 CDN
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

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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