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Drama Canadian

Sisters

by (author) Wendy Lill

Publisher
Talonbooks
Initial publish date
Jan 1991
Category
Canadian, Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, Post-Confederation (1867-)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889222892
    Publish Date
    Jan 1991
    List Price
    $16.95

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Sisters is a tough, uncompromising look at a convent-run Native residential school. While the play chronicles in graphic detail the by now well documented agenda of cultural genocide which motivated the establishment of Native residential schools in Canada, the daring triumph of this play is that it reveals the far less well documented cultural infrastructure and values of the society which created those schools—the church and the state of white, colonial, paternalist Canada.

Cast of 4 women and 2 men.

About the author

Wendy Lill
Wendy Lill has not only written extensively for radio, magazines, film, television and the stage, but has also been active in national politics. In 1979, while with CBC Radio in Winnipeg, Lill wrote her first play, On the Line, to dramatize the plight of striking Winnipeg garment industry workers. Since then, her plays have gone on to examine the Canadian women’s suffrage movement (The Fighting Days); aboriginal-white relations (The Occupation of Heather Rose, Sisters); pedophilia and mass hysteria (All Fall Down); the slashing of social programs (Corker); and the dangerous lives of coal miners in her adopted province of Nova Scotia (The Glace Bay Miners’ Museum).

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Awards

  • Winner, Gemini Award
  • Winner, Newfoundland and Labrador Drama Festival, Labatt's Play Award

Editorial Reviews

“a powerful dramatic exploration of hypocrisy and the human conscience.”
Halifax Chronicle Herald

“Lill plunges deeply into the mysteries of the human heart.”
NeWest Review

“intelligent and articulate.”
Winnipeg Free Press

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