NEW! Evening at the Warbonnet and Other Plays

by Bruce King

The five plays in this collection by Bruce King offer a ride into an American Indian twilight zone that the author has been exploring for much of his career. The abnormal, often surreal settings of these plays provide a backdrop for his observations on the eternal struggle between good and evil and the challenge of living the proper Indian way. From the barbaric, drug-drenched trenches of Vietnam, to a supernaturally challenged Indian home on an Indian reservation, to the hip, familiar sounds and smells of an Indian bar located just this side of the other side, we hear the voice of a moralist who knows all too well how easy it is not to live up to the prescribed code because he himself has been there and done it all.

323 pp.

$18 paper; ISBN 978-0-935626-60-3

American Indian Theater in Performance: A Reader

Edited by Hanay Geiogamah and Jaye T. Darby, 2000.

This reader is the first comprehensive collection to present the views of leading playwrights, directors, scholars, and educators in contemporary Native theater. A ground-breaking collection of recent and earlier writings, it serves as both an overview of the field and a source book for further study and performance. Locating Native theater within the rich contexts of Native communities, tribal sources of creativity, performance traditions, and artistic innovations, the articles and interviews provide historical context and offer perspectives on directing, dramaturgy, and new play development in Native theater.

414 pp.

$20 paper;  ISBN 978-0-935626-52-2

Stories of Our Way: An Anthology of American Indian Plays

Edited by Hanay Geiogamah and Jaye T. Darby, 1999.
 
Stories of Our Way was the first anthology to span more than thirty years of American Indian theater, including the 1930s classic The Cherokee Night. The distinguished group of twelve plays draws on a rich range of tribal experiences—Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Kiowa, Navajo, Oneida, Otoe-Missouria, Rappahonack, and urban. The playwrights treat the diverse stories of Native people’s ways with gritty integrity, uncompromising honesty, and deep respect, balanced with an awareness of the challenges and responsibilities to renew, and a commitment to an evolving American Indian theatrical aesthetic. The playwrights invite audiences to probe the often-painful past, share the enduring values of family, community, and tribe, and celebrate humor and spirituality.

503 pp.

$20 paper; ISBN 978-0-935626-50-6

$60 hardcover; ISBN 978-0-935626-49-2

Keepers of the Morning Star: An Anthology of Native Women's Theater

Keepers of the Morning Star: An Anthology of Native Women’s Theater showcases the exciting range of Native women’s theater today from the dynamic fusion of storytelling, ceremony, music, and dance to the bold experimentation of poetic stream-of-consciousness and Native agit-prop. While negotiating complex issues, including family, community, repatriation, sovereignty, urban relocation, and cultural and spiritual appropriation, this collection celebrates the enduring power of Native women’s traditions to heal and transform.

386 pp.

$25 paper. ISBN 978-0-935626-56-5