Performance is ephemeral. At the best of times all we can take away from the experience is an intangible feeling that we have somehow been changed, the memory of a piece of magic that moved us, and sometimes a really cool program. Here’s your chance to hold something in your hand, and our chance to give you lasting exposure to our very best artists, our very deepest thinkers. Check out merchandise below to take home a piece of the action. All items available online, through the office or at performances.
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NEPA MerchandiseWomen’s T-shirts(Sizes S-L)
$20 each + HST + S/H Men’s T-shirts (Sizes S-XXL) $20 each + HST + S/H |
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Gigi and Lola live by one motto: love for gas, gas for cash, cash for living, living for love. Living in Zimbabwe amidst a severely depressed economy, both women live day-by-day, plying their trade with the truck drivers that stop at the border. Gigi knows the limitations of her trade, while her younger protege, Lola, looks for love in every man that comes her way. Lola’s brother, Chicken, ekes out his own living while keeping an eye for Gigi’s affections and Lola’s safety. Through story, song, and play, Gigi and Lola inspire each other to find joy on the edges of survival. | book: $15.00 + HST |
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Native Earth marked our 25th anniversary with the publication of this chapbook, a retrospective on a quarter century of Indigenous performing arts in Canada. The first run of the book was a birthday gift from Playwrights Guild of Canada. book: $10.00+HST, S&H |
NATIVE LIFE, NATIVE THEATRE, NATIVE EARTHedited by Yvette Nolan |
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ALMIGHTY VOICE & HIS WIFEby Daniel David MosesA 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. |
book: $15.00+ HST, S&H |
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ANNIE MAE’S MOVEMENTby Yvette NolanAnnie Mae’s Movement explores what it must have been like to be Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a woman in a man’s movement, a Canadian in America, an Aboriginal in a white-dominant culture at a time when it felt like we could really change the world. Dying under mysterious circumstances, it is still unclear as to what really happened to Anna Mae back in the late 70s. Instead of recounting cold facts, this play looks for the truth from examining the life and death of this remarkable Aboriginal woman; that we cannot know the consequences of our actions; that we live on in the work that we do and the people we affect long after we have passed from this world. | book: $15.00+ HST, S&H |
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DREARY & IZZYby Tara Beagan1975, Lethbridge Alberta. When the Monoghan sisters lose their parents in a car accident, Deirdre remains as the sole caregiver to her older sister, Isabelle. Adopted as an infant from the neighbouring Blood Indian Reserve, Isabelle is loving, joyous, and severely affected by fetal alcohol syndrome in a time before this disorder had a name. Just as Deirdre is poised to enter university and begin exploring, for the first time, her own future and independence, she must choose how much of her own life she will sacrifice for the love of Isabelle. Deirdre is barely staying afloat under the strain of this reality when hope arrives in the form of gorgeous vacuum cleaner salesman Freddie Seven Horses. Both sisters find in Freddie a new world of unexplored emotions and ideas, where Freddie is a port in a storm. | book: $15.00+ HST, S&H |
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STAGING COYOTE’S DREAM VOLUME I: AN ANTHOLOGY OF FIRST NATIONS DRAMA IN ENGLISHedited by: Monique Mojica and Ric KnowlesAn anthology of First Nations drama in English, Staging Coyote’s Dream is the first anthology of First Nations plays to be published in Canada. It brings together ten major plays by First Nations playwrights living in Canada and the United States. The collection will be required reading for specialists and students of Native Studies, Native theatre or literature, and will serve as an outstanding introduction to newcomers to the field. | book: $25.00+ HST, S&H |
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STAGING COYOTE’S DREAM VOLUME II: AN ANTHOLOGY OF FIRST NATIONS DRAMA IN ENGLISHedited by: Monique Mojica and Ric KnowlesThis second volume of Staging Coyote’s Dream is an all-new anthology of First Nations drama in English that follows up on the success of the first volume. It brings together plays by some of the leading Native playwrights in North America, some of which have not been previously published. Like its predecessor it will be required reading for specialists and students of Native Studies, Native theatre or literature, and will serve as an outstanding introduction for newcomers to the field. | book: $25.00+ HST, S&H |
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DARRELL DENNIS: TWO PLAYSby Darrell DennisTales of an Urban Indian is a one-person play that follows the trials and tribulations of Simon Douglas, a young Native man who moves from his rural reservation to the big city of Vancouver. This dark comedy examines the issues of race, identity, and assimilation that drive young, native males to self-destruction.
In The Trickster of Third Avenue East, Roger and Mary are spiraling out of control but are too scared to let each other go. Enter J.C., a mysterious visitor who turns their lives upside down and forces them to confront their darkest secrets. J.C. pushes Roger and Mary into the realm of the supernatural and past the brink of sanity. |
book: $15.00+ HST, S&H |
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BEYOND THE PALE: Dramatic Writings from First Nations Writers and Writers of Colourselected and edited by: Yvette Nolan | book: $15.00+ HST, S&H |
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SIXTY BELOWby: Patti Flather and Leonard Linklater It’s nearly winter solstice when Henry gets out of jail, ready to straighten out his life. Of course it’s not that easy. His old buddies just want to party, his girlfriend’s moving ahead of him. And then there’s the ghost of Johnnie, everyone’s hero, who just won’t leave the northern lights. |
book: $10.00+ HST, S&H |
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Find out what yoga, residential schools and the missing thirteenth floors have in common in the new comedy by Kenneth T. Williams. Bannock Republic reunites the cousins Jacob and Isaac Thunderchild 10 years after the mayhem of Thunderstick. This time, a beautiful and vengeful third-party manager will wreak havoc with their lives. | book: $15.00 + HST, S&H |
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Jacob is an alcoholic reporter, his estranged cousin Issac is a worldly photojournalist just recently returned to Canada- and their editor pairs them up to cover a story on Parliament Hill. The problems start when Jacob vomits onto the Prime Minister, an act which is mistaken for an assassination attempt. While in jail, the cousins get information which sends them on a madcap romp to try and track down what might be the story of their lives, involving a government coverup, an international fugitive and a lesbian love nest in the Northern Ontario woods. | book $15.00 + HST, S&H |