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Highway Tomson
The Rez Sisters: A Play in Two Acts
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Winner of the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best New Play Nominated for the Governor General's Award This award-winning play by Native playwright Tomson Highway is a powerful and moving portrayal of seven women from a reserve attempting to beat the odds by winning at bingo. And not just any bingo. It is THE BIGGEST BINGO IN THE WORLD and a chance to win a way out of a tortured life. The Rez Sisters is hilarious, shocking, mystical and powerful, and clearly establishes the creative voice of Native theatre and writing in Canada today.
Kiss of the Fur Queen: A Novel (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series)
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"In his first novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen, noted playwright Tomson Highway tells the story of two Cree brothers who were severely abused at a Catholic residential school, and he uses the full transformative power of magic and myth, as well as a compelling traditional novel plot, to restore to them their dignity and, by implication, that of their people."—Toronto Globe and Mail "Highway's novel vibrates with the force of the collision of two cultures, the long history of a people living at one with nature, and the violence of their enforced conversion to Christianity. Emotionally complex, witty, symphonic and sad, Kiss of the Fur Queen is a remarkable novel, filled with blood, guts, life and love."—Vancouver Sun
Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
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Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing tells another story of the mythical Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve, also the setting for Tomson Highway's award winning play The Rez Sisters. Wherein The Rez Sisters the focus was on seven "Wasy" women and the game of bingo, Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing features seven "Wasy" men and the game of hockey. It is a fast-paced story of tragedy, comedy, and hope.
Fox On the Ice
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One winter afternoon, Joe and Cody went ice fishing with their papa, their mama, and Cody’s little black dog, Ootsie. It was the perfect day to fish. The sky was clear, and the sun made the snow sparkle like diamonds. Brothers Joe and Cody are spending a chilly winter afternoon ice fishing with their parents. Cody is helping Papa fish, while Mama and Joe doze in the sled. Suddenly the sled dogs sit up and sniff. A fox is across the lake, her fur as bright as flames. The sled dogs give chase, pulling Mama and Joe along on a wild ride. Written in both English, and Cree Maageesees Maskwameek Kaapit is a wonderful, lyrical story of celebration from award-winning author Tomson Highway, capturing a passing way of life for future generations. Illustrator Brian Deines has created an evocative masterpiece of shimmering oils depicting the beauty of northern Manitoba.
Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout
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Based on a deposition signed by 14 Chiefs of the Thompson River basin on the occasion of a visit to their lands by Canadian Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1910, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout is a ritualized retelling of how the Native Peoples of British Columbia lost their fishing, hunting and grazing rights, their lands, and finally their language without their agreement or consent, and without any treaties ever having been signed. It is one of the most compellingly tragic cases of cultural genocide to emerge from the history of colonialism, enacted by four women whose stories follow each other like the cyclical seasons they represent.
Written in the spirit of Shuswap, a Trickster language” within which the hysterically comic spills over into the unutterably tragic and back, this play is haunted by the blood of the dead spreading over the landscape like a red mist of mourning.
Rose
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Rose is the eagerly awaited third installment in Tomson Highway’s rez” cyclea large-cast musical set on the Wasaychigan Hill Reserve in 1992, reintroducing many of the characters from the first two plays, The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing.
The play features, as the title suggests, Roses. One Rose has recently become chief of the reserve, a woman who must fight constantly to keep her position and maintain the integrity of her native culture. Another Rose died seven years earlier in the saddle of her Harley while on her glorious, but grievous journey to women’s liberation. The third Rose never even had a chance to be born.
Emily Dictionary and some of her female biker pals take centre stage when Big Joey enlists the Sudbury Mafia to help with his plans to open a multi-million dollar dream casino in the women’s cherished Community Hall on the Rez. Bob Rae, Premier of Ontario at the time, makes an appearance in a land claims negotiation to sign the first Indian treaty in a hundred years with Chief Big Rose.
Violence against women is once again a powerful issue in the play as the battle for the future of the community builds to its shattering climax.
Cast of 10 women and 7 men.
Highway Tomson News
Placer roads getting safer - Auburn Journal
Auburn Journal, CA - Feb 11, 1699
Auburn JournalPlacer roads getting saferBy Gus Thomson Journal Staff Writer Rick Ward, commander of the Auburn California Highway Patrol office, released the numbers this week. They show accidents dropping every year from a peak of 1941 in 2003 to 1302 last year.
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Bluegrass Invasion: 10 bands to present an all-day Saturday on June 6 - Naples Daily News
Naples Daily News, FL - Feb 11, 5888
Bluegrass Invasion: 10 bands to present an all-day Saturday on June 6National and area bluegrass groups will be performing including Blue Highway, The Grascals and The Lewis Family. The day-long event is family friendly. There will be a supervised play area in the park for children. The festival itself will honor and
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All aboard for S'pore's rail ambition - Straits Times
Straits Times, Singapore - Feb 11, 6603
Straits TimesAll aboard for S'pore's rail ambitionIf not for a 2004 tunnelling accident along Nicoll Highway that claimed the lives of four Circle Line workers, and which led to a massive review of construction methods, the line would have been ready earlier. But what has happened has happened,
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Across the area - Augusta Chronicle
Augusta Chronicle, GA - Feb 11, 8098
Across the areaHarold Craig, of the New Ellenton Commission of Public Works, said the advisory took effect Tuesday night and will remain in effect for at least 48 hours for South Boundary Avenue at South Carolina Highway 19 south to US Highway 278, Sizemore Street,
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Life is a highway for Pimooteewin creator - Toronto Star
Toronto Star, Canada - May 09, 2009
Life is a highway for Pimooteewin creatorTomson Highway says his greatest satisfaction with projects like Pimooteewin is that they prove his native Cree language has a place in mainstream culture. Tomson Highway has never seen his first and only opera Pimooteewin, and he doesn't have a The spirit of the opera is there, in Moosonee
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