A respected First Nations Canadian playwright and Governor General\u2019s Award finalist, Daniel David Moses is known for using storytelling and theatrical conventions to explore the consequences of the collision between Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultures.\u00a0Coyote City<\/i> and Big Buck City<\/i> are the first two in his series of four City Plays that track the journey of one particular Native family between a world of Native spiritual traditions and the materialist urban landscape in which we all attempt to survive.<\/p>\n

Coyote City<\/i>, a tragedy, begins with a phone call from a ghost that sends a young Native woman, Lena, her family in pursuit, on a search in the city for her missing lover Johnny. Big Buck City,<\/i> a farce, tells the story of Lena\u2019s subsequent Christmas reunion in that city with her family just in time for the birth of her own miraculous child.<\/p>\n

Daniel David Moses, of Toronto and Kingston, is a Delaware from the Six Nations lands on the Grand River, lives in Toronto where he writes and Kingston where he teaches playwrighting as an assistant professor and Queen\u2019s National Scholar in the Department at Queen\u2019s University.<\/p>\n

Along with 15 books, Moses has also appeared in Prism International, ARC, Atlanta Review, The Fiddlehead, Poetry Canada Review, Impulse Magazine, Prairie Fire, QUARRY<\/i> and Exile, the Literary Quarterly<\/i>, and the collections Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature, Native Poetry in Canada, A Contemporary Anthology, Native Writers and Canadian Writing, The Last Blewointment Anthology<\/i> and First People, First Voices.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Exile Classics Series – Number Twenty-nine<\/p>\n[quote style=”boxed”]Coyote<\/em> City<\/i>\u2026in performance clearly would become a poem in its entirety\u2026 I\u2019ve read nothing that conveys so powerfully how Canada and the future look to young Native men and women who choose the company of their own dead in preference to life in a society with no role or place for them. It\u2019s not just the best Canadian play I\u2019ve read this year but the best in several years.\u201d \u2014Ronald Bryden,<\/em> Globe and Mail<\/i>[\/quote]\n[quote style=”boxed”]While he offers plenty of pratfalls and broad caricatures, Moses ultimately aims for something darker, more complex, something magical. Big Buck City<\/i> is a strangely powerful, disturbing piece of work\u2026life and death and money and magic swirl around each other\u2026an amusing but familiar farce [turns] into something more powerful and more difficult to pin down.\u201d \u2014Chris Dafoe, Globe and Mail<\/i>[\/quote]\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[317,314,579],"product_tag":[117,444,437],"class_list":["post-2551","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","product_cat-exile-classics","product_cat-drama","product_cat-indigenous-bipoc","product_tag-117","product_tag-native-canadian","product_tag-the-exile-classics-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/2551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}