Only Good Indian, The

Par (auteur) Tom Davis, Jivesh Parasram & Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Catégories: Drama
Éditeur: J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
Paperback : 9781927922910, 96 pages, Mars 2022

La description

The Only Good Indian is part lecture, part meditation, and part threat. Or maybe a sacrifice. Each incarnation of The Only Good Indian recruits a new artist to step into the radical headspace of a suicide bomber. In turn, each performer straps themselves into a suicide vest -- and struggles to rationalize to the audience such an "irrational" decision. It dissects where our similarities begin and where they end, forcing both the performer and the audience to ask themselves: what would I die for? Blending political theory with dark satire, authors Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, Tom Arthur Davis, Adele Noronha, Jivesh Parasram, and Justin Shore take you on a wild ride through their genealogical relationships to colonization, occupation, otherness, and indigeneity.

Reviews

"Radical and thought-provoking... Delves deep into the history, politics and logics of occupation, colonization and indigeneity." --Jordan Bimm, NOW Magazine (Toronto, ON)

"Ambitious, risky theatre." --Andrea Warner, The Georgia Straight (Vancouver, BC)