A Play In Two Acts.<\/p>\n

In this dark comedy, a house is possessed by the Spirit of the Winter season, but for the Bucks it does not look like Christmas. In Big Buck City<\/em>\u00a0Canadian native playwright, Daniel David Moses, skewers salvation, family, greed and even plumbing \u2014all of which come together (or is it apart?) as the Bucks seek to become upwardly mobile in the city.<\/p>\n

Daniel David Moses is a registered Delaware Indian, who was born in 1952 and grew up on a farm on the Six Nations lands located on the Grand River near Brantford, Ontario. He has written numerous plays such as The Indian Medicine Shows, Big Buck City, Br\u00e9beuf’s Ghost<\/em> and Coyote City<\/em> which was a finalist nominated for the 1991 Governor General\u2019s Literary Award for Drama; books of poetry including Sixteen Jesuses;<\/em> and a collection of essays, Pursued by A Bear<\/em>. He holds an Honours B.A. from York University and a M. F. A. from the University of British Columbia. Daniel participated in the 2004 Adelaide Festival Writers Week in South Australia and the Neva Book Forum in St. Petersburgh in the Russian Republic. He has also been Poet in Residence for Myty, Ktere Nas Spojuji\/ Myths That Unite Us, the Prague-Toronto-Manitoulin Island Theatre Project with productions in Prague Czechoslovakia and Toronto, Manitoulin Island and Montreal Canada. Currently, he teaches at Queen\u2019s University Drama Department in Kingston, Ontario and pursues independent writing projects. Daniel David Moses lives in Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cMoses writes with a poetic suggestiveness that recalls Tennessee Williams: he is operating as an artist, not as an explainer or apologist for his people.\u201d \u2014Ray Conlogue, The Globe and Mail<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[314,579],"product_tag":[196,430,444],"class_list":["post-2996","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","product_cat-drama","product_cat-indigenous-bipoc","product_tag-196","product_tag-canadian-author","product_tag-native-canadian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/2996","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=2996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.exileeditions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}