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Rose is the eagerly awaited third installment in Tomson Highway's "rez" cycle—a 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.
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Renate Schenkeli
reviewed Rose on October 10, 2013 Rose
I don't often read plays but after Lion in the Streets, I'm definitely going to be looking for some more.
I don't know how to describe this any other way than to say it was highly disturbing. The language is graphic and violent and there is nothing Thompson shies away from (including a man jacking off while forcing his fiance to relive a rape). It is these scenes - those that are unsettling and extreme but also horribly real - that makes me think Thompson writes like no other playwright. There is so much emotional depth, so much pain but also redemption, which really makes you reflect on the horrors of our society.
It is such an intense play that I recommend it with caution but it is the writing more than anything - the powerful, painful and poetic writing - that I believe no one should miss out on.
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