Almighty Voice and His Wife, Second Edition
by Daniel David Moses
A young couple woo and wed,
but they’re Cree and it’s 1895, the first generation after the Riel
Rebellion, and it’s suddenly hard for the people who followed the
buffalo to live happily ever after. What are they going to do? It’s
still a bit early to go into show
business.
Almighty Voice and His Wife
shakes up a familiar story from the Saskatchewan frontier, reimagining
it from the postmodern late twentieth century. The “renegade Indian
story” transforms into both an eloquent tale of tragic love and an
often hilarious, fully theatrical exorcism of the hurts of history.
A modern classic about the
place of First Nations people in Canada.
“…one of the few plays
firmly considered as part of the canon of great Canadian drama….”
—Christopher Hoile, EYE
Weekly
“By its end, the poetic,
imaginative Almighty Voice and His Wife
has turned into a one-ring circus. And that’s
a good thing.”
—Jon Kaplan, NOW Magazine
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