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Native Play Reading Series @ the Longhouse!

Oct 25, 2016, 7:00 pm9:30 pm

Many Nations Longhouse

 

New!  NATIVE PLAY READING SERIES begins Tuesday, October 25th at 7 pm in the Many Nations Longhouse. Readings are free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

Join us to listen to concert readings of contemporary plays by Native/First Nations/Pacific Islander playwrights.  Fall term’s selections are:

A Woman Who Was a Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance
By Diane Glancy (Cherokee)
Directed by Theresa May, with Miakah Nix and Marta Clifford

In a World Created by a Drunken God
By Drew Hayden Taylor (Ojibwe) ~ Directed by Waylon Lenk (Karuk)

A Woman Who Was a Red Deer Dressed for the Deer Dance is a dream-space dialogue between a Cherokee woman and her grandmother about the challenges of contemporary life and love. Diane Glancy is an award-winning author of many plays, poems and works of fiction.

In a World Created by a Drunken God is the story of Jason Pierce, a Canadian Ojibwe who’s leaving Toronto to return to his reserve, and an American stranger with an unusual request. Drew Hayden Taylor is an award winning playwright, columnist, novelist and scriptwriter, raised on the Curve Lake Reserve in Central Ontario.

Sponsored by UO Native Strategies, the Many Nations Longhouse, and the Department of Theatre Arts.

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